by Gabriel Sherman
In the mental iconography of the New York culture junkie, the Netflix queue has joined the line of must-have life accouterments. The kind of person who fixates on arranging just the right titles on his built-in bookcases or artfully stacking back issues of Granta and The New York Review of Books now spends countless hours searching the Netflix Web site. His Netflix neuroses requires him to add to his queue all the high-end movies that he never got around to catching at the theater—if not necessarily to watch them. Read more.
Good article. I especially buy into the part about Maximizers and clinical depression. There's something odd about the psychology of people that are stressed out about not hitting 15+ movies a month.
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