Netflix and Binge Watching

I know I’m not the first to say that I love being imbedded in a television show. With a Netflix account (yours or a friend’s), a series that is picking up, and at least three seasons at your disposal, you might not realize that you haven’t seen the light of day in 48 hours. One of the most appealing things about this process is that you don’t have to suffer through those painful ads that normally would appear at every cliff-hanger. If you are an impatient person and avid television viewer, I hope for your sake that you own a Netflix account. Check out the Youtube video above of a post grad singing about the new phase in her life and referencing Netflix's role in it.

It is hard to believe that something like this even exists sometimes. To have the access to dozens of television series’ without ads, only costing $8 a month. Surely this is way too good to be true. Advertisements are huge for entertainment revenues to make a profit. Perhaps with everyone and their mom being hooked on a Netflix account, Netflix may start to sell more ads on the side of their screens. It has come to the point where most of their customers are already addicted, so they could fairly simply get away with this. I know I would not cancel my account if there were a little Febreze ad playing in the corner, even though it would be slightly painful to pause it every time I opened up a new episode.

Speaking of maybe going out of our way to deal with an ad in the future, it has come to my attention how spoiled we have become as a society. Our desire for instant gratification is being fed over and over again. It is now even considered a hassle to deal with a thirty-second ad on the other side of the screen. I like to think of watching a television series on Netflix as reading a modern novel. You have all the best parts of reading a book: you’re able to get invested in the characters and the plot of the series. Simultaneously, you can mindlessly watch the story happen before your eyes. At the end of a long day, you can sit back and watch a forty-minute episode. In those forty minutes, the same story might have taken a few hours to read in a novel. No wonder we’re all ready to sell our souls to this website.