When
I was a kid I got magazines in the mail. I can remember Entertainment Weekly, and
Movieline, before the internet was big you didn't know much of anything until
the magazines showed up. Times changed and I grew up and now I dread the mail.
Bills, that’s all, bills bills and more bills.
Then a friend of mine told me about
Netflix. It was just starting and to be honest I hated the idea. I loved going
to the video store. I knew the people there and they knew me, we’d talk movies
and games, and I eventually brought my daughter with me, and she loved it. I
remember signing up for Netflix and STILL going to the video store at times. It
was sad to see Hollywood video go away. We still have Family Video here, and
they do well apparently, but they need to let go. I despise Family Video for
staying around when Hollywood video couldn't. Family Video is nothing but a
reminder of days long past, days when my weekends consisted of Burger King or
Fazoli’s and movie after movie after movie.
For all the fighting I did with
Netflix and their attempt to take all of that away from me, I accepted it with
the change going on in my own life. Starting a family and having little time
for fast food and movies, I knew that like everything else that made up a
singular me had to be shed and left behind, and for better or for worse it
needed to be done to make room for my family.
We looked at our bills, and the
money I was spending renting movies, we even looked at the miles to the video
store and cost of gas. It was going to have to go with Netflix, and though the
two overlapped, they did so for not very long, for as I said Hollywood Video
closed down just a short time before Blockbuster itself went tits up.
On the plus side – I was beginning
to look forward to the mail again (with a family you find yourself enjoying the
little things). The streaming was a hassle at first, with the disc that had to
be in the PS3 to stream, but luckily that didn't last long, and we now stream
as we were meant to.
Another nail in the coffin of my
past life was getting rid of cable (which is something we need to look into
again since this morning I found out Cox will be raising their prices here in
Wichita, Kansas. Talk about backwards movement). It was a tough thing to do (Have
I established TV was everything to me for a large portion of my young adult
life?), but again a no-brainer. It was a cost that we couldn't afford nor did
we truly need, and again with the fall of cable in our house Netflix rose up as
it began to carry more and more cable shows. Not a whole lot, yes, but enough
to keep us satisfied to the point that now we currently have too many shows to
watch that we’re beginning to fall behind on them all (a problem we didn't think possible when we first began to stream shows).
My point is, I love Breaking Bad,
and the final season will be streaming Feb. 24, and I can’t wait.
Also, I think that the creators of
the show, when they say that Breaking Bad benefited from Netflix, instantly
started something that will change how we watch TV. Breaking Bad is a great
show, and I think that looking back it will be seen as a powerful one as well
in we the customer’s struggle with affordable, enjoyable, TV.
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