Why do we have Netflix?

(This will not be a post bitching about Netflix pricing. I maintain that if the leap from $12 a month to $18 a month hurts your finances that much... then you, my friend, have bigger financial problems than your DVD/DVD+streaming/streaming subscription(s).)

No, instead, we have it so that I can start watching the old TV show thirtysomething! I remember my parents always watched it, and I thought, heck, I'm 30 now. Let's see what it was about in the 80s instead of in the 20teens. Two episodes in, I notice:

• the clothes are amazing;
• Timothy Busfield is shockingly less handsome as a young man than as an older man;
• sound mixing has evolved leaps and bounds;
• the conversations are more realistic, and about more universal subjects, than on any sitcom I've taken in in a long while. Hmm.