Do you like Lord of the Rings? Do you like it enough to watch The Return of the King every single day of the year? Well, you can take a LOTR break on Easter, Thanksgiving, your birthday and Dress Up Your Pet Day. On each of the 361 remaining days, put aside 4 hours and 23 minutes to watch the extended version of Peter Jackson’s film finale. Are you in?

According to Netflix, one Canadian did watch Return of the King 361 times over the last year.
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We people of the True North were second in the world in streaming at least one show each and every day on Netflix. Mexico was first in streaming enthusiasm. Peru and the US came in third and fourth. Netflix distinguishes between the shows we devour  – watch more than two hours a day, and those we savour – watch less than two hours a day.

Congratulations to all of the creators who have produced shows compelling enough to keep us glued to the couch. How many of these shows have you been watching?

The Oprah Winfrey-produced Greenleaf and Daniel Perrault and Tony Yacenda’s American Vandal – a true crime satire – led the list of shows we couldn’t stop watching.
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We weren’t greedy, but returned again and again to shows like Peter Morgan’s The Crown and Ezra Koenig’s Neo Yokio, starring Jaden Smith, Jude Law, Tavi Gevinson, Susan Sarandon and Desus Nice. In Neo Yokio, Netflix tells us, Kaz Kaan, ‘joined by his faithful mecha-butler, pursues love, fashion and supernatural forces amid Neo Yokio’s sinister high society.’
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Youth-powered shows feature on family viewing night. First in line is The Duffer Brothers’ Stranger Things. Next up is the Vancouver-filmed, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa developed Riverdale.
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Polite? Nice? That’s what they say about Canadians, yet we can’t be bothered to wait for our significant others to watch our together shows together. We are most likely to storm ahead on Jenji Kohan’s Orange is the New Black, Stranger Things and Chris Brancato, Carlo Bernard and Doug Miro’s Narcos.
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