Have you ever completed a television show and did not know what to do with your life? Well you are most certainly not alone and this article is for you. It is hard to explain the emotions that are going through your mind, so I am here to help to try and figure them out. These feelings and emotions happen to be very similar to the five steps of grieving. Why you ask? It is simply because you have grown so close to the characters throughout the duration of the show; you invested all of your free time into them, and now *POOF* it is all gone, just like that. Now you have to learn to move on from it and accept that the show is over.
As you sit there watching the end credits roll by for the very last time, a bunch of different emotions begin to flood through you. The all-too-familiar names of the actors are flying past and you actually are paying attention to them this time, trying to savor every last bit of the show before it is gone forever. Because an emotional process is bound to happen, I have outlined for you the five steps of the Netflix-grieving process.
1. Denial
It isn't over. It can't be the end. There must be a mistake and there are more episodes left. Netflix, why you always lying?
2. Anger
That is how it ends? There are so many questions I have! Who did she choose? What happened with them? How can they have left it like that?!
3. Bargaining
Please don't let it be over. I'll do anything for this not to be over. Let me watch the last episode over again, or even better yet, let them create just one more episode. Pretty please?
4. Depression
How could the show be over? Wasn't it not that long ago the show started? There are over 100 episodes and they are all over just like that. Why? Why?!
5. Acceptance
OK, OK, I guess it really is over. I will never know what happens to them after the screen went black and the credits began to roll. Let me just make up my own ending for them.
Now it is time to start a new show, only to have the same, horrible grievance process inevitably occur again.
Although we hate when we finish shows on Netflix, we continue to binge-watch shows and speed up the process. The cycle of beginning a new Netflix show, finishing it and starting a new one is never-ending. We continuously fall in love with shows only for them to end and break our hearts, but we wouldn't have it any other way, would we?
