Is Netflix TV? -Jodi Kirkner

The answer to that question will determine the entire outcome of this blog post, so I guess I'll just figure out a way to explain it so it applies either way.

If Netflix is TV, I freaking love TV. I love watching shows, and movies, and documentaries, and COOKING SHOWS. Cooking shows are the best. Because they always cut to commercial at the high-stakes part, but guess what? Netflix doesn't have commercials. Reality show hack.

But if we're talking about the confusing scheduled mass of shows and movies and God knows what else playing all at the same time on like a thousand different stations that all somehow cut to commercials at exactly the same time, then I absolutely do not like TV. Especially the newfangled version with all the different menus and on-demand. For a supposedly "tech-savvy young lady" I know less about that than my grandma knows about the Xbox One (No, I do not have a gaming grandma. She's never touched an Xbox. Hyperbole.).

The only time I watch real TV is some nights around 7pm when my dad puts on Family Feud, or during the Voice season, but if he doesn't turn on the TV I won't remember, and my shows will be as long forgotten as last night's leftovers. Keep in mind, while all of this is going on I'm furiously doing homework, so it's only on occasion that I actually get to watch these shows, but I'm always listening from the other room.

I think to fully address this topic we must also visit commercials- the main reason I don't watch TV on my own. I am TOO BUSY for all that. Commercials take 20 minutes of show content and stretch it to 30 minutes. So I get frustrated if I sit down to watch something and waste time seeing commercials. I could be working on my Unit Assignment for APUSH, making flash cards, writing a blog post, learning a new language, working on the activity I have to present at next week's meeting, practicing my Speech events, memorizing our choir pieces.... you get the point. I am putting off a myriad of important things to see... an ad for a COPD medicine that hurts you more than it helps? Honestly, I'd rather be reading about Alexander Hamilton's financial plan.

I can make time to sit down and watch a 20 minute episode on Netflix, but honestly, I don'y have time to waste sitting on the couch, hoping a show I like will come on next, but not really being able to control it, and waiting in tense anticipation of the commercial I know will come RIGHT before they announce the Cupcake Wars champion.

If Netflix counts as TV, sure, I love a good show every now and again. If not, I'd like to opt-out.