Why Netflix Original Shows Are The Future

        Over the summer I watched the entire first season of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and I don’t feel guilty about it at all. Netflix original shows are the beginning of something new, going much past the modern media.

         While shows on prime time TV have to fight to get certain time slots and could get cancelled based on people in the company no longer seeing the show as profitable, on Netflix there seems to be much more flexibility. On Netflix writers don’t have to worry about being picked up for a certain time or if the certain time slot that may be on at the same time as another popular show that could take away their viewership and lead to their show getting cancelled.

        Netflix shows are also gaining a lot more popularity than shows on regular TV. In the past year all I’ve heard people talk about is Orange is the New Black, a Netflix original show. The way Netflix releases show also makes it a bit easier for people to watch. While regular TV shows release one episode once a week, Netflix releases an entire season at once which allows people to watch when they want to. If they feel like watching three episodes and then stopping for two weeks and then restarting, they can without having to worry about falling behind or missing something important. The only problem with this type of release is people talking about it online and in real life and easily getting spoiled and viewers forgetting what happened in the first season by the time the second season is released.

       Netflix also gives their shows a lot more flexibility than regular TV. When a show is on regular TV it is closely regulated by the channel and criticized by insanely over protective parents who don’t know how to just change the channel if they don’t like what they’re seeing. On Orange is the New Black one of the first few episode show a girl in entire nudity and isn’t blurred out in the slightest. If this were on regular TV that would never back it into the first draft. Shows are able to go beyond the TV-14 rating put in place by an unspoken rule and can make their characters more rebellious and wild and can use worse language.  While The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is not as “out there” as Orange is the New Black it’s basically to be expected. Tina Fey, the writer of the show, wrote for shows like 30 Rock and SNL, where they can be very suggestive, but they can’t actually show or do anything. I see shows in the future pushing the bar and being more progressive than ever before.

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