Your wife is trying to escape from her reality...let her do it.
J, ^^^^^^, I can confirm that via my W confirming it a couple times, in her own words, when she chose the movie on our anniversary "date" back in May: "I'm into fantasy, not reality, right now".
She chose a epic fantasy over the "chick flick"...and W is/was NOT an epic fantasy fan, at all, ever...lol.
I get what you are doing, the watching, I did it too...a lot!
The more I quit watching her (too much), the better I felt, the more present I was for my kids, the more detached I became.
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus
Uncertainty is the very condition which impels people to unfold their powers.-Eric Fromm