I do a similar thing with anime. I do read descriptions to know whether I’m interested or not, but I purposely do that a month before the next batch of anime starts airing. A month prior is late enough that anything that’s going to air during that season will have been announced already, while also being early enough that I’m likely to forget what the description said by the time they actually start airing. I then make a Notepad list with what piqued my interest, and refer to that a month later.

And then yeah, I might add other shows on top of those from the opinions I hear online like you.