Recently the campus was overtaken with protests as Auburn students and local community members joined hands and condemned Netflix for announcing the painful removal of “Bob’s Burgers,” “Scrubs” and “American Dad” from its streaming services. Or something, I don’t know, my new sleeping pills have created, admittedly, gigantic holes in my temporal lobe.
Of course, it isn’t really as bad as all that, and due to the unique nature of Netflix’s deal with Fox, only weird chunks of these shows will be phased out of the Netflix experience. For example, all 10 seasons of “American Dad” are available, but the latest four seasons are scheduled for removal according to entertainment news service Polygon.
Though I don’t care much for “American Dad,” since I am not a 14-year-old boy experimenting with whippets, the news of “Bob’s Burgers” departure shook me to my core. That is, at least, until I saw the new releases Netflix has scheduled for May 2017.
According to Digital Trends, the streaming company will be releasing new seasons of some of its most admired original works. For example, season five of the Emmy award-winning political drama “House of Cards,” starring the object of everyone’s most secret fantasies, Kevin Spacey, is scheduled for release on May 30.
Netflix will also be releasing fresh episodes of some of its more successful comedies, such as Aziz Ansari’s “Master of None,” “F is for Family” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.”
The streaming magnate will also be adding some non-original films to its streaming services. For example, Quentin Tarantino’s World War II drama “Inglorious Bastards” will now be available for streaming, as will “Marvel’s Doctor Strange.”
So even though classics such as “Scrubs,” “Jurassic Park” and “Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown” will be leaving Netflix, there will surely be enough new content to keep us comatose in our beds collecting Pop Tart crumbs in the folds of our necks until graduation day or at least our untimely deaths.
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