Netflix

Netflix immediately comes to mind as the perfect follow up to the procrastination post.   Just today I watched an episode of Parks and Rec season 3 on netflix to avoid writing

oh yeah about to stream some movies

my paper for a little while longer.  I know recently netflix stock has dropped so for all you trust fund and business school students out there you might have some anger.  Yeah, there business decisions might not be of quality, but there service (especially to college students) is.

The thing about netflix is that only one of your friends needs it for everyone to have it.  I’m not talking about the DVD mail service, I’m talking about the online streaming.  All it takes is one friend to convince their parent of the importance of online streaming, then they tell everyone their password, and boom, everyones instantly streaming DVDs and TV shows straight to their computers.

Just think, once you have netflix you have a crazy number of movies and television shows at your finger tips.  Need to waste 2 hours, sign on and watch some random ass movie you might not have ever heard of before looking at the recently added section.

But the best part of netflix is the television shows.  Let’s be honest, most of us didn’t watch Arrested Development when it was on TV.. that’s why they cancelled it.  Then netflix streams all 3 seasons.  Everyone watches it and realizes how

get netflix and watch arrested development if you haven't already

fucking hilarious it is, and we all bitch about it being cancelled. Now Arrested Development is getting a short miniseries and a movie.  God Bless Netflix for letting us watch that TV show in it’s entirety and then getting enough people to fight for it to be brought back.

Netflix is a godsend for college students.  Watch every episode of 24 or Mad Men when you don’t feel like doing work.  See that classic movie your film major friend insists changed cinema forever.   Outshine that asshole who thinks he knows a shit ton about action films,  you’ve seen every Die Hard like 30 times on netflix.  Get drunk and watch some cheesy horror film with your friends when it’s to cold to go out.  Netflix gives you the ability to do all this.

So here’s to netflix.  The perfect way to procrastinate.  The best way to watch televsion.  The simplest way to stream movies.  Find one friend with a netflix account and all the possibilities open up.  Cheap and easy, just the way college student’s like it.