That one guy at my coffee shop got me hooked on a show I ignored for 3 years

I was sitting at my usual spot at the Daily Grind last Tuesday, scrolling through Netflix for like 20 minutes. A regular I only know as "Dave in the beanie" leans over and says "you have got to stop sleeping on Peaky Blinders, I promise episode 3 changes everything." I laughed it off but gave it a shot that night. Now I'm 4 seasons in and I literally canceled plans last Friday just to finish season 2. Has anyone else had a stranger randomly recommend something that turned into your whole month?

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angelac6315d ago

oh man you've been Peaky Blinded. that happens to everyone who caves and watches it, once you're in you're in for good. i did the same thing with Dark on Netflix, a bartender told me to watch it and i spent the next two weeks completely useless to society.

cole_robinson14d ago

Haha right? It's wild how one show can just take over your whole brain like that. I swear it's like a modern day curse or something. You think you'll just watch one episode to see what the hype is about and then bam, you're three seasons deep at 3am on a Tuesday. It makes me think about how we all have that one thing that just completely derails us for a bit. Like a friend of mine got really into baking bread during the pandemic and I swear she didn't talk about anything else for months. It's like our brains need that total immersion sometimes, you know? Just a full-on obsession that makes everything else stop mattering for a while.