Assignment 5 - Joshua Pe

I subscribed to Netflix around June of this year. Before then, I didn’t have any subscriptions to television or a streaming service. Even now, I don’t have the time to watch Netflix often. I’m busy doing something most of the time, and in my personal downtime, I usually cook. So far the only shows I’ve finished are How I Met Your Mother and Master of None, and I have been slowly progressing through The Office. My friends have recommended watching Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Family Guy, and Breaking Bad, but I just don’t have the time.

The popularity of the Emmy’s over the Nobel Prizes is a logical progression of the times, considering the voyeuristic society we live in. We’re obsessed with the private lives of celebrities. We follow their every move on social media, we gossip and spread rumors about them, we enter every facet of their lives. The craze of the Emmy’s is a result of our society’s fetish over celebrities. Our society doesn’t have the same attraction to the Nobel Prizes. People have gone to the point of having plastic surgery into looking more like Kim Kardashian, but no one has tried looking like Marie Curie.