Today, tweeters flocked to their iPads in their thousands to welcome season two of Orange is the New Black (#OITNB), the Netflix original series that slapped the hand of television away as it grappled for a taste of the EPIC prison drama. This Netflix win was only made 1,000,000 times better by – wait for it – the ENTIRE SEASON IS AVAILABLE FROM THE GET-GO.
Once upon a time, video killed radio in a rather unremarkable battle and the wireless slipped away without any of us giving a hoot. But the pitiful knife of media past moved on and now sits jammed into the back of your out-dated television set. I present to you its successor – The Internet – Tadah! Here’s why : –
- We hold the power of entertainment gods past. Why? – because instead of organising Saturday night cat loving around our favourite TV programmes– they have been organised around us!
- We can watch it on the loo! The laptop way outdoes the television in terms of portability, compatibility and adjustability, but its most exciting ability – to Skype our friends right after the season finale of OITNB and freak-out together – after we’ve flushed, of course.
- The TV license fee has done us all a favour and shot itself in the head while we applauded merrily between eyefuls binge-watching. That’s right, since we are not actually watching TV; the licensing man is now our friend with whom we tweet about Prison Break.
Ah, remember the times when we’d wait a whole week in impatient agitation for the next episode of Glee? Those were the good times, right? Oh wait. No they weren’t!
