Netflix Rage

I am a Reality TV junkie... I would be lying to you if I said anything different.  Have I spent an entire weekend watching an old season of some random reality series? Yes.  Have I purchased some obscure reality TV series with my hard-earned money even though my husband thinks I am insane? Yes.  Am I the person that can join in ANY conversation about ANY reality TV show and feel no shame? Yes.  If you also answered yes to these questions then CONGRATS my friend, you too are also a reality TV junkie.  Might as well embrace it now because the older you get, the harder it is to hide.

So, what does being a reality TV junkie have to do with Netflix and why does it cause me unheard of amounts of rage?  Well, let me tell you...

Many of you may not know this, but I live in Canada... wasn't trying to hide that fact, I just simply have never said it before.  In Canada, we have Netflix.  No, this is not ground-breaking news but what you may NOT know that Netflix in Canada BLOWS GOATS!  I believe (based on endless searches and browsing) that all of the money invested in to Netflix Canada goes towards crap shows and shows that no one in their right mind would watch.  OR... it goes towards shows that you would watch but are readily available just about anywhere.  What I am seriously looking for are old seasons of Survivor, Big Brother, Amazing Race, Hells Kitchen.... Big Brother from other countries... random food shows from other countries (read: every season of The Great British Bake-off ... Mary Berry for the WIN).... you know... THE GOOD STUFF.

Oh, "just watch Hulu", you say.  "Amazon Prime has all those shows", you scoff.  Yep, they do... I am not going to say that these shows aren't available online OUTSIDE OF CANADA but for us measly Canadians, it's not possible to watch these shows without investing in stocks of the company (also known as purchasing each season for crazy amounts of cash... who really wants to buy a 15-year old season of Survivor for $25?  ME but again, hubs would shoot me dead on the spot... just kidding, I've done it but don't tell him).

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Being a modern-day techie (just kidding... it's called YouTube and there's a video to teach you anything... literally anything), I have changed my IP address so it looks like I am living in the US and lived the glorious life of an American Netflix watcher... until the addresses were changed and life came crashing down (which generally happens in the middle of the best show of every season you are watching).  I've also tried watching these videos on the YouTubes and... no... just no.

So, here I sit.  With all the bottled up, unnecessary, first-world problem rage that Netflix gives me EVERY DAMN time I look for a show to watch.  Oh, and don't even get me started on the lack of decent Halloween movies (yes, they exist... Halloween franchise, The Purge movies... you know, the classics).