diff --git a/frontend/src/components/Home.tsx b/frontend/src/components/Home.tsx
index 454f5098..a3a3717a 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/Home.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/Home.tsx
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ import { type ActionMenuItem } from "./ui/ActionMenu";
 import { Button } from "./ui/Button";
 import { Carousel } from "./ui/Carousel";
 import { ContextMenu } from "./ui/ContextMenu";
-import { useContextMenu } from "./ui/useContextMenu";
+import { useContextMenu, useItemTriggers } from "./ui/useContextMenu";
 import SegmentedToggle from "./ui/SegmentedToggle";
 import { LoadingState, StateMessage } from "./ui/QueryState";
 import VideoCard from "./VideoCard";
@@ -158,6 +158,10 @@ function Rail({
           : pin.item(pinTargetForCard(target), target.title)),
       ];
 
+  // One stable trigger per card (the menu acts on the unified card, not the `Video`/`PlexCard` the
+  // card component holds) — a fresh lambda per render defeated `memo(VideoCard)` on every tile.
+  const menuFor = useItemTriggers(cards, menu.triggerProps);
+
   // An empty rail says why it is empty rather than vanishing: a shelf that silently disappears when
   // you have not pinned anything teaches nothing about how to fill it.
   if (!cards.length) {
@@ -190,10 +194,7 @@ function Rail({
                 onState={onState}
                 onToggleSave={onToggleSave}
                 onOpen={(v, startAt) => onPlay({ ...c, video: v }, startAt)}
-                // Bound to the UNIFIED card, not the native payload the card component holds: the
-                // menu acts on the shelf ENTRY (its pin id, its place in the order), which the
-                // `Video` inside it does not carry.
-                menuProps={() => menu.triggerProps(c)}
+                menuProps={menuFor[i]}
               />
             ) : c.plex ? (
               <PlexPosterCard
@@ -202,7 +203,7 @@ function Rail({
                 onOpen={() => onPlay(c)}
                 onInfo={() => onInfo(c)}
                 onToggleWatched={onToggleWatched}
-                menuProps={() => menu.triggerProps(c)}
+                menuProps={menuFor[i]}
               />
             ) : (
               <ShelfTile card={c} onPlay={onPlay} menuProps={menu.triggerProps} navIndex={i} />
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/comfortPin.tsx b/frontend/src/components/comfortPin.tsx
index 0ae04392..888b22b1 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/comfortPin.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/comfortPin.tsx
@@ -11,11 +11,12 @@ import { type ActionMenuItem } from "./ui/ActionMenu";
 
 // E24 S3 — "put this on my comfort shelf", from wherever you happen to be looking at the thing.
 //
-// The shelf is the Home surface's object, but the GESTURE belongs on every card and row in the app:
-// you decide something is comfort media while you are watching it, not while you are on a page that
-// already lists it. So this file is the one place the pin lives, and every surface composes the same
-// `ActionMenuItem` into the menu it already has (`Playlists`, `PlaylistsRail`) or mounts the
-// `ComfortPinMenu` wrapper when it has none.
+// The shelf is the Home surface's object, but the GESTURE belongs wherever a pinnable thing is
+// shown — a video, a channel, a playlist, a Plex show or movie: you decide something is comfort media
+// while you are watching it. (Locked decision 3: an episode, a season and a person are not pin kinds,
+// so their cards and strips carry no pin.) This file is the one place the pin lives; every surface
+// composes the same `ActionMenuItem` into the menu it already has (`Playlists`, `PlaylistsRail`) or
+// mounts the `ComfortPinMenu` wrapper when it has none.
 //
 // Feature layer, not `components/ui/`: it speaks a domain API slice, which the platform boundary
 // (eslint `no-restricted-imports`) forbids a `ui/` primitive from doing. The MENU SURFACE that
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/plexCards.tsx b/frontend/src/components/plexCards.tsx
index c196546e..67ec246e 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/plexCards.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/plexCards.tsx
@@ -412,9 +412,12 @@ export function CastStrip({
 export function RelatedStrip({
   related,
   onOpen,
+  menuProps,
 }: {
   related: PlexCard[];
   onOpen: (id: string) => void;
+  /** The comfort-pin context menu's trigger (a related show is pinnable like any poster). */
+  menuProps?: (c: PlexCard) => Record<string, unknown>;
 }) {
   const { t } = useTranslation();
   return (
@@ -428,8 +431,9 @@ export function RelatedStrip({
           <button
             key={r.id}
             {...navItemAttrs(i)}
+            {...menuProps?.(r)}
             onClick={() => onOpen(r.id)}
-            className="group w-[130px] shrink-0 text-left"
+            className="group w-32.5 shrink-0 text-left"
           >
             <div className="glass-card glass-hover relative aspect-2/3 rounded-xl overflow-hidden transition-all duration-200">
               <img
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/plexViews.tsx b/frontend/src/components/plexViews.tsx
index 3af1e629..a04c99fe 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/plexViews.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/plexViews.tsx
@@ -312,6 +312,7 @@ export function PlexShowView({
   const [addTarget, setAddTarget] = useState<PlexAddTarget | null>(null);
   const [collOpen, setCollOpen] = useState(false);
   const [busy, setBusy] = useState(false);
+  const relatedPin = useContextMenu<PlexCard>();
 
   const show = d?.show;
   const showLib = show?.library ?? undefined;
@@ -532,10 +533,15 @@ export function PlexShowView({
             <CastStrip cast={show.cast} onFilter={onFilter} onOpenPerson={onOpenPerson} />
           )}
           {d.related.length > 0 && showRelated && (
-            <RelatedStrip related={d.related} onOpen={onOpenShow} />
+            <RelatedStrip
+              related={d.related}
+              onOpen={onOpenShow}
+              menuProps={relatedPin.triggerProps}
+            />
           )}
         </>
       )}
+      <PlexPinMenu menu={relatedPin} />
 
       {addTarget && <PlexPlaylistAdd target={addTarget} onClose={() => setAddTarget(null)} />}
       {collOpen && show && showLib && (
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/ui/Button.dom.test.tsx b/frontend/src/components/ui/Button.dom.test.tsx
index 18b714e9..e8e93683 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/ui/Button.dom.test.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/ui/Button.dom.test.tsx
@@ -161,6 +161,9 @@ describe("Button accessible-name contract (type level)", () => {
         <Button size="icon" icon={<span />} data-testid="bad-a" />
         {/* @ts-expect-error iconOnly with no label/aria-label/title has no accessible name */}
         <Button iconOnly icon={<span />} data-testid="bad-b" />
+        {/* @ts-expect-error an icon with no children and no size renders no text and no name */}
+        <Button icon={<span />} data-testid="bad-c" />
+        <Button icon={<span />} label="an icon button named by label" />
         <Button size="icon" icon={<span />} label="by label" />
         <Button size="icon-sm" icon={<span />} aria-label="by aria-label" />
         <Button iconOnly icon={<span />} title="by title" />
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/ui/Button.tsx b/frontend/src/components/ui/Button.tsx
index 98630d25..dd759d0b 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/ui/Button.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/ui/Button.tsx
@@ -119,7 +119,12 @@ interface ButtonOwnProps extends ButtonHTMLAttributes<HTMLButtonElement> {
 // use it for the tooltip that IS the name.
 type NamedSomehow = { label: string } | { "aria-label": string } | { title: string };
 type TextlessButton = ({ iconOnly: true } | { size: "icon" | "icon-sm" }) & NamedSomehow;
-type TextfulButton = { iconOnly?: false; size?: Exclude<ButtonSize, "icon" | "icon-sm"> };
+// …and a button of any other size must actually HAVE text, or be named: `<Button icon={x} />` with
+// no children and no size typechecked into a nameless button (E10 review).
+type TextfulButton = { iconOnly?: false; size?: Exclude<ButtonSize, "icon" | "icon-sm"> } & (
+  | { children: ReactNode }
+  | NamedSomehow
+);
 export type ButtonProps = ButtonOwnProps & (TextlessButton | TextfulButton);
 
 /** The shared action button. `type` defaults to "button" so it never accidentally submits a form. */
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/ui/VirtualGrid.tsx b/frontend/src/components/ui/VirtualGrid.tsx
index 7f028c25..9180df48 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/ui/VirtualGrid.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/ui/VirtualGrid.tsx
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ export interface VirtualGridProps<T> {
    * just above its minimum column, so on an ultrawide it answers "more room" with more, smaller
    * items forever — 3440px gave the feed 11 columns of 264px. With a cap the extra width goes into
    * the items instead (8 columns of ~370px), which is what a screen watched from a distance wants.
-   * It only ever binds ABOVE the width where that many columns already fit, so narrower layouts —
-   * including the 1024px floor and 1920/2560 — are untouched. */
+   * It only ever binds ABOVE the width where that many columns already fit, so the 1024px floor and
+   * 1920 are untouched; at 2560 it depends on the caller's cap (see `feedView.maxCols`). */
   maxCols?: number | null;
   /** Estimated row height before measurement; real heights are measured per-row, so this only
    * affects the very first paint and the scrollbar's initial guess. Measure it, don't guess — a
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/ui/gridColumns.ts b/frontend/src/components/ui/gridColumns.ts
index 34e1b0c1..c0bcb34a 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/ui/gridColumns.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/components/ui/gridColumns.ts
@@ -6,8 +6,10 @@
 // just above its minimum column width no matter how wide the screen is. Measured at 3440px (E10 S4),
 // the feed laid out 11 columns of 264px — a diluted feed is as bad a failure of the viewport contract
 // as a broken one, so `maxCols` stops the multiplication and lets the leftover width flow into the
-// items instead. The cap can only bind ABOVE the width at which that many columns already fit, which
-// is what keeps every narrower layout — the 1024px floor included — bit-for-bit unchanged.
+// items instead. The cap can only bind ABOVE the width at which that many columns already fit, so the
+// 1024px floor and everything near it is unchanged. How far up that reaches is per view: the feed's
+// small cards (`feedView.cardsSmall`, 11) are already capped at 2560 with the filter rail collapsed —
+// 12 would fit there — while the regular cards stay uncapped up to 2560.
 
 /** The grid's gutter in px; the column maths has to net it out on both sides of the division. */
 export const GRID_GAP = 16;
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/ui/useContextMenu.ts b/frontend/src/components/ui/useContextMenu.ts
index 06ce2886..3219539d 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/ui/useContextMenu.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/components/ui/useContextMenu.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
-import { useCallback, useRef, useState, type PointerEvent as ReactPointerEvent } from "react";
+import {
+  useCallback,
+  useMemo,
+  useRef,
+  useState,
+  type PointerEvent as ReactPointerEvent,
+} from "react";
 
 import { matchesShortcut, useKeyScope } from "../../lib/keymap";
 import { useAnchoredPopover } from "./anchoredPopoverHooks";
@@ -177,3 +183,14 @@ export function useContextMenu<T>(): ContextMenuController<T> {
 
   return { target, open, close: () => setOpen(false), triggerProps, popover: pop };
 }
+
+/** One trigger per item, stable while the items and the menu are — for a list whose card component
+ *  takes `menuProps: () => props` but whose menu acts on a WRAPPER of what the card holds (Home's
+ *  unified shelf card around a `Video`). A fresh `() => menu.triggerProps(c)` per render defeats a
+ *  `memo` card on every tile each time the menu's own state changes. Index-aligned with `items`. */
+export function useItemTriggers<T>(
+  items: readonly T[],
+  triggerProps: (payload: T) => Record<string, unknown>,
+): (() => Record<string, unknown>)[] {
+  return useMemo(() => items.map((it) => () => triggerProps(it)), [items, triggerProps]);
+}
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/ui/useItemTriggers.dom.test.ts b/frontend/src/components/ui/useItemTriggers.dom.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bc3e1783
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/components/ui/useItemTriggers.dom.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+// @vitest-environment jsdom
+import { describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+import { renderHook } from "@testing-library/react";
+
+import { useItemTriggers } from "./useContextMenu";
+
+describe("useItemTriggers", () => {
+  it("hands each item the same trigger across renders, so a memo card is not re-rendered", () => {
+    const items = [{ id: 1 }, { id: 2 }];
+    const triggerProps = vi.fn((it: { id: number }) => ({ "data-id": it.id }));
+    const { result, rerender } = renderHook(() => useItemTriggers(items, triggerProps));
+    const first = result.current;
+    rerender();
+    expect(result.current[0]).toBe(first[0]);
+    expect(result.current[1]).toBe(first[1]);
+    expect(result.current[1]!()).toEqual({ "data-id": 2 });
+  });
+});
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/feedView.ts b/frontend/src/lib/feedView.ts
index b822872c..67d8cfdc 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/feedView.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/feedView.ts
@@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ export interface FeedViewSpec {
    * 3440px, `cards` laid out 11 columns of 264px. Each cap here is set so the item tops out near
    * 1.5x its own `minCol` on a 3440px ultrawide, which keeps each view recognisably itself (a capped
    * `cardsSmall` must not grow into a `cards`). Below the width where that many columns already fit
-   * the cap does nothing at all, so 1024 through 2560 are byte-identical to before it existed. */
+   * the cap does nothing at all. For `cards` that width is past 2560; `cardsSmall` already binds AT
+   * 2560 with the filter rail collapsed (12 would fit, 11 are laid out) — the intended layout, not
+   * an accident, but not "unchanged" either. */
   maxCols: number | null;
   /** Show the video thumbnail. False only for the bare row — whose badges (duration, live state,
    * saved, resume bar) then move into the meta line, since Thumb is what draws them. */