I am proud to say I am in love with Netflix. I have been for years. I have spent so many hours watching it, that it's actually kind of disgusting. I have watched everything from Breaking Bad to Gossip Girl to Weeds. I love them all. There is a difference between watching cable and watching Netflix. This difference is exactly why I love it so much. I don't have to wait a week to see if Rory and Lorelai stop fighting. I don't have to be home at 7 to see if Damon and Elena are still together. I get to see it all at once.
Netflix will never leave me. It will never just go away. I can watch every show I want as much as I want, as long as I pay my bill. Who cares if I watch twelve episodes straight? Who needs sleep? Not me! I just need to see what happens next. I will admit, I might have a slight Netflix addiction, but that's much better than having a drug addiction. It is to the point where I have my days mapped out to wear I can watch as much as possible in my free time.
The thing that pulls me in about Netflix is how attached I get to shows. I get to the last season and I can't even begin to watch it because I don't want to let go of the characters. I balled like a baby trying to finish House. I have yet to finish Mad Men because I don't want to see it end. You get to know the characters, you love them and you watch them everyday for months, and then poof! They are gone. Their story is over. And unless it's a Veronica Mars situation where the fans love the show enough to fund the entire movie, you know that you will never get to see these characters again. You can rewatch the show, but it's not the same. It isn't the same love at first sight that you had when you watched the pilot.
My mother doesn't understand how obsessed my sister and I are with Netflix. She doesn't understand the feels it pulls out of us. Most people don't. You have to be a very passionate person to have these reactions to TV shows. I understand that it's just a show and that the characters aren't real people, but for the month that it takes me to watch a show, they are real people, with real lives. I care about the shows more than I care about most people, and I'm okay with that.
