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Do I Like Netflix?

It is a hard question to answer if I am honest. However I will do my best to come up with as detailed an answer as I can. 

The answer to the question would have to be no and here is my reason why; It is not that Netflix is a bad service, on the contrary it is certainly one of if not the best TV and Film streaming sites available today, yes there can be a lack of good shows and films to watch but it is one of the cheapest and at times one of the most reliable. The service is always ready available and at times has been there when I have had nothing else to do. 

Unfortunately though it has also been there when I have had things to do as well. The programs I have a habit of watching tend to come in many seasons and are some what quite addictive. I am a creature of habit and when I begin to watch a program I like to watch as many episodes as I can as often as I can to try and watch all of the seasons available. 

This is why I dislike Netflix, It is too readily available for my liking. This perhaps says more about my ability to walk away from a TV series however I maintain it is still Netflix fault haha. 

One thing that definitely makes it harder to walk away from a good show on Netflix is the dreaded next episode timer. For anyone that has never used Netflix, the next episode timer is basically a small timer roughly around 14 seconds long that starts to count down at the end of an episode, when the timer counts down and reaches 0 it will begin to play the next episode. A feat of genius in the streaming world as we all know the hardship of looking for the next episode or putting the next DVD in. However as genius as it is it is also evil!!! EVIL I tell you!! when you are lying in bed at 2am and really needing to get to sleep the last thing you want is another episode to start playing especially if it is a new tv series you are watching as more often than not the curiosity kicks in and you end up staying up later to watch the episode well I know I certainly do. 

This can be a real burden on sleep patterns, uni work, social lives etc and this is why I do not like Netflix. Will this stop me from continuing my subscription? No not a chance in hell, I like my tv programs and I shall continue watching.

Picking a blog subject...

Picking a topic to write about for this blog deemed itself to be much more challenging than I had initially thought it would be. When I was told to write about something that I was interested in I instantaneously had a brain fart and became the most boring, uninteresting person imaginable with no hobbies or interests. Fortunately enough though I do have some hobbies and some interests and after a prolonged period of thinking time was able to come up with something I would be able to write about.

Eventually I decided to write about something that takes up a lot more of my time than it should, something that entertains and bores me, something packed full of variety and only costs me £6.99 a month...... I am indeed talking about "Netflix." With the dreaded 14 second countdown in between TV episodes I can find myself sometimes watching episode after episode late into the night or should I say late into the next morning. However this blog is not dedicated to my Netflix addiction (thankfully).

If you have never heard about Netflix then perhaps this blog is not for you but if you have then perhaps you will be interested enough to read about some of the TV programs and films I have watched recently and what I thought about them. One thing I constantly find with Netflix is that I never know what to watch next, perhaps if there were more "what to watch" blogs or articles then I would be able to better coordinated my time when on Netflix rather than scrolling through endless drivel to find something good enough to watch.

Over the next few weeks I plan on updating the world wide web on my views on some of the best and perhaps some of the worst things to watch on Netflix. However for just now I think I will call it a night! My next post will be about a recent TV series I have just finished called "Prison Break" originally aired in 2005 it is not new to TV screens but it is only recently I have taken the time to watch it. Stay tuned to see what I have to say about it...

Any feedback on my blog would be great and would ideally add some form of extra credit or something along those lines to my university project. So feel free to leave a comment, positive or not any feedback will be taken on board :) thanks, Scott.