The Rise and Fall of Netflix

2020 was a real year for culture. If by culture, you mean people at home watching other people at home. Never before have we been able to purve on our exhibitionistic neighbors around the world with such ease via twitch, YouTube, TikTok and Instagram. On the flip side of that, cinemas took a big hit with everyone's vague feelings that sitting in a carpet chair full of historical farts wasn't exactly the pinnacle of COVID safety. And that crystallized into a brutally stressful binge watching habit around the world. That is, unless the only thing hiding most people's fragile relationships together, shared taste in Netflix is the glue. Seriously, I don't know why cinemas