Today’s delight is just one big advertisement. Netflix. Thank God for Netflix. There, I said it.
According to news reports today, Netflix’s earnings more than doubled from a year earlier. The company gained 15.8 million global subscribers; it now has a total of 183 million customers. And while I don’t usually sing the praises of corporate America, I am happy to give Netflix their due. What would we do without our binge-worthy shows?
We all have our favorites – shows we are not too embarrassed to say we love like “The Two Popes”, “The Crown”, and “Atypical”. Then there are the kind of fluffy shows that my husband, John, only watches with me because he loves me, like “The Great British Baking Show” (love it!). And then of course there are the guilty pleasures which we keep to ourselves…mostly. OMG, have you watched “Love is Blind”? The premise is that couples “meet” behind partitions, so they cannot see each other. Because, uh, love is blind, couples are able to make honest judgements about their future spouses just by talking – having deep personal conversations, always with a glass of wine in hand. The couples can only meet in person after they become engaged. I am not kidding. These guys get down on one knee, even though the woman cannot see them and propose. When the couples meet, they are invariably and understandably very pleased with their choice of spouse. Did I mention that every contestant is “smokin’ hot” (their language, not mine)? Yup, not a homely one in the bunch. Anyway, after 5 minutes of this show, John got up to go read a book, proclaiming, “This is creepy”, which of course it is. Which means I have to watch it when he is in the shower or on a conference call.
But good, bad, really bad, and somewhere in between, Netflix has kept me occupied. And because we are stuck inside, we are free to suspend our judgements on our choices.
So, thank you Netflix. What would I do without you?