Getting to grips with a Netflix addiction

Lindsay Woods gets to grips with her Netflix addiction. The reason she can’t put the remote down? It’s nostalgia – mixed with the promise of something new

Netflix. It is to present-day parents what Glenroe on a Sunday evening was to ours. It has replaced that illicit thrill of hotfooting it on a Friday evening to the local rental store to grab the latest release and some heavily salted popcorn.

And, hot damn, Netflix has got game over the last twelve months. Particularly in their securing of original content. It is that curious time of year, the waiting period or limbo for the second series (The OA and the eagerly-anticipated Stranger Things to name two) and the release of the laden Autumn/Winter schedules.