" Grey's Anatomy," "Orange is the New Black," "House of Cards," "Parks and Recreation," "The Office," "Bones," "House," "Friends," "American Dad," "Vampire Diaries," "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," "Dexter," "Family Guy," "How I Met Your Mother," "Lost," "Shameless," "Black Mirror," "Peaky Blinders," "Bloodline," "Mad Men," "Breaking Bad" - what do all of these words have in common? Odds are, if you are a Netflix user, you've completed a couple of these series at least once. At first, this might not seem like a huge deal, but once you look into it, you might reconsider sitting down to binge-watch a series. TIME says that the average Netflix user streamed 568 hours of episodes during 2015. As of January 1st of 2017, Netflix has 93.8 million subscribers, 47 million of which are American. Studies show that 70% of Netflix users binge-watch shows, and Business Insider suggests that the average user streams 2 hours of Netflix a day. What does all of this mean?
Netflix is killing our time - time that could be spent with friends, time that could be spent with family, time that could be spent outside, reading, doing homework, talking on the phone, working out, or working at a job. The typical Netflix user has completed at least a few series on Netflix, so here's how that breaks down (number of episodes found through Google, average episode length found here ). Here are 47 of the most popular shows on Netflix, based off of Business Insider, Uproxx, Paste Magazine, Collider, and personal inferences, listed underneath. The first column is the series name; the second is the number of episodes; the third, average length; the fourth, number of minutes spent watching the series; the fifth, total number of hours that breaks down to; the sixth, number of 24-hour days that comes down to, and the seventh column shows how many days one would spend if they watched 12 hours of Netflix a day.
Yes, Netflix is great for lazy day binge sessions and late night episodes, but is it great enough to give months of our lives away to it? You decide.
