Television has come a long way from the days where problems faced could be easily solved by the end of a 30 minute episode. The trouble with that type of black and white mentality is the distance from reality that these shows represented. Life is more…
Turns out binge watching isn’t actually your choice
BY: Adrian Smith Binge watching: taking in more than two episodes of the same show in a single sitting. The ‘hook episode,’ as coined by psychologists at Netflix, is the exact episode that keeps TV watchers on their couch…
How binge-watching is ruining television and making you depressed
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Ten years ago, Netflix streaming didn’t exist. If you wanted to watch a television show, you had to tune in on a specific time of the week, where you would watch one episode of the show and…
Aziz Ansari’s Netflix series reveals why welcoming uncertainty is key in becoming a jack-of-all-trades but a Master of None.
BY: ADRIAN SMITH I remember feeling sort of melancholy after watching the season finale of Master of None, because of the truth behind the idea that there’s no such thing as 100 per cent certainty in life. In the episode,…
Netflix binge watching is re-wiring our brains
BY: MICHAEL LYONS Popular political drama and Netflix original House of Cards recently aired its third season—all at once. Flying in the face of television convention, the model for Netflix-original shows is to set a date to release an entire…
20 movies on Netflix that are actually worth watching
By: Khadija Khan 1. Frequencies If you’re into movies about sci-fi, mystery and romance neatly wrapped into a compelling storyline, Frequencies is for you. What if it was physics that ruled the laws of human attraction? Is it free will…