Creating Conflict

"She can’t find her suit slacks"  instead of "How can I save the universe"? No, thanks.  Although the point is well considered to avoid jumping to the magnificent conflict too fast and too soon, the dropping down to the mundane (seemingly forever) is the sort of boring stuff that infects contemporary fiction. I am trying to get through Phillip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, and one might consider that novel prior to "contemporary" fiction, in order to compare the original to the Amazon Prime's TV series to get at why the series is so disappointing, but I have found that Dick, more than the TV series, mires the story down in the mundane--but maybe one can hope there will be a purpose--and the TV series goes straight to action/killing and a bizarre love triangle. I don't think the TV series at the end of 10 hours of viewing in the first season has come close to Dick's theme whereas I can see it in the novel a third the way in.