Father vs Netflix

20 years ago, I decided to do without TV. I have carried on this belief for a long time by enduring grueling arguments with everyone, then the children grow up and after seeing on the computer for the millionth time Conan the boy of the future you understand that your children are starting to hate you and something. must change.

A thousand pressures inside and outside the family make you give in to a compromise. On the other hand, if you turn to the right, someone will say to you: "Have you seen the Space Halberd series on Netflix? I shot myself 34 episodes while in the bathroom, I lost the use of my legs, but how cool!" If you turn left a young passer-by comments: “Miii raga, is the fifteenth season of Tamarri vs aliens out? You won't see me at school for a couple of days!" Then you do not resist the temptation and give in knowing that opening that door will then be impossible to close it again. But your children implore you: «Please, we pray you ...». They too want to see Tamarri against aliens . Then you don't know why but you give in and as a father you soon realize that you will spend the next years of your life fighting against thousands of series that in the shape of winking rectangles will want to be clicked!

As a father you realize that your childhood spent waiting for the episode of Heidi at four in the afternoon sounds like a medieval memory. Now you know a new battle is beginning and you gear up. You think back to your grandfather who told you: «Dear young man, the enemy is besieging us. Always! Sooner or later he will be able to enter, that day remember that the goats say hello to you».


Andrea Gotico
NP November 2020