If it’s that or more Zoom, or even braving the weather in this shambles of a spring, I’m all for flicking on Netflix. When the pandemic started, everyone news-binged to find out what was going on and started subscribing to streaming services galore. In April 2020, we averaged 6.5 hours viewing a day against five in 2019. As the pandemic dragged on, people stopped bothering with the news (unless Boris Johnson was announcing a new lockdown), but kept streaming box sets, partly because TV is really good. You don’t need a lockdown to make you watch Normal People or The Queen’s Gambit.

Source: The Guardian May 23, 2021 09:46 UTC