I Will Break Up With You Over Netflix

You shouldn’t date someone with bad taste in television. Period. I mean, why would you? I don’t mean disagreements on which season of The Wire is best or which clone on Orphan Black is your favorite – those are awesome signs of a healthy relationship and make for great brunch conversation. They mean you agree on the big picture – you both know what’s good, and the nuance lies in how good. But date someone with incompatible tastes? Or worse, someone who doesn’t like TV at all? Share a bed without sharing a Netflix account? That’s just not the type of love I want. [quote_right]”You can’t suddenly choose to have a life and start taking regular showers and wearing pants”[/quote_right]So how do we media connoisseurs navigate our love for TV with our dating lives? We combine the two. Now, you can try to share your favorite shows with your partner, living in a mixture of hope and fear that they see your favorite show the way you want them to. And they can live with the pressure you’re putting on them, no matter how many times you try to lessen the weight and lie, like “you might not like it” or “it’s not for everybody.” We’ve all been there. It’s stressful for both parties and often it just doesn’t work. And somehow, technology isn’t catching up yet for some reason. Can you imagine a successful Netflix dating app? Imagine your feels after reading “7 other singles also just watched six straight hours of Bob’s Burgers in your area.” After the failure of Yoke (Facebook’s bad attempt at…