It's the opposite; people don't want to know what their coworkers are watching because it's too disturbing. At the same time, the workplace is full of snowflakes who get triggered by everything and run to HR about anything.
Sportsball was a "safe" watercooler subject for many but once that went woke, fewer viewers tune in.
It's been decades since the trend started to not share anything about movies or television at work. I think the television show 'Friends' was the nail in the coffin because people were so disappointed in their coworkers who watched it and treated it as a pseudo-social circle.
As for movies, once Hollywood producers had the secondary video market to fall back on, they really started generating trash. The financial package of making a movie to make the sequels, regardless of how bad they were, also led to lower quality productions. By the 1990s, Hollywood was clearly desperate.
Taking 80s action heros and making them clowns:
Kindergarten Cop 1990
Stop or My Mom Will Shoot 1992
Last Action Hero 1993
Judge Dredd 1995
Jingle All the Way 1996
Twins 1998
Getting so desperate to go with amateurs:
Clerks 1995
Mallrats 1995
Friday 1995
The Jerky Boys: The Movie 1995
Making low-budget sequels in a desperate attempt to cash in anything:
Rocky V
RoboCop II 1990
RoboCop III 1993
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III 1993
Beverly Hills Cop III 1994
Batman and Robin 1997
Blues Brothers 2000 1998
Addams Family Reunion 1998
Universal Soldier: The Return 1999
Trying to recycle cartoons and make a movie that should have been an animation and gone directly to video:
Dick Tracy 1990
Dennis The Menace 1993
The Flintstones 1994
Casper 1995
George of the Jungle 1997
Inspector Gadget 1999
After running out of cartoons, the producers switched to making movies from comic books in the 2000s and 2010s with the same level of garbage output.
Much depends on how much you have in common with people at work and which people you choose to share things with. As I recall, people liked to talk about “Game of Thrones,” and grossing out those who were repelled by it was part of the fun. You may have been turned off by people talking about “Friends,” but they probably didn’t mind. It probably didn’t stop them and maybe even encouraged them.
This year, “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” got lots of attention, even from people who didn’t see them. The only TV show that gets comparable attention, I think, is “Yellowstone.” Some people liked “White Lotus,” but they were talking about it at a time when most people hadn’t seen it and didn’t know what it was.