Hey! Russ and I have taken the leap and finally joined Netflix! We’ve been mulling this decision over for a while, but wanted to wait until we felt we would have more time available in our schedule to really take advantage. We frequently buy the DVDs we want to watch, and at one time had such a backlog of shows "To Be Watched" that it seemed unlikely we would need new material any time soon. But I recently reorganized the shelves and discovered the "Not Yet Watched" material is actually a lot less than orignally supposed. (Amazing what you find out about your possessions when you take the time to ORGANIZE them!)
So we’ve joined Netflix, and we’re browsing their selection, and it’s quite extensive. (Of course, I was able to stump them within my first half-dozen searches by asking for the 1977 comedy Between the Lines. They do, however, have Rhinoceros, with Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel! What fun it will be to see that again!)
So, already we are developing quite a "queue" of stuff for them to send us, and at the very top are the very first episodes of the 1960’s gothic soap opera Dark Shadows.
We were both big fans of the show, back in the day, so we’re hoping to watch it together. It will take us many, many months to get through the over 1200 episodes. But hey! It should be a lot of fun. And we want to get this viewing under our belts before the Tim Burton/Johnny Depp movie comes out and Dark Shadows becomes so wildly popular that it will be near impossible to get hold of the original series. (I’m just projecting here, but that *could* happen.)
And in the meantime, we’ll watch lots of other stuff as well.
In other news…34 days till football season!
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