Having to cancel Netflix is ‘unsettling’
Katherine West is surely right to say that being forced to cancel Netflix doesn’t mean you’ve been reduced to poverty (Letters, Issue 643). TV-streaming is a modern luxury that anyone should be able to live without. But nobody likes having to cut back on what they’ve become used to.
A more proportionate view is that people are cancelling Netflix and other subscription services because they are feeling poorer, and are worried about the future. That sense of anxiety shouldn’t be so easily dismissed. It must feel unsettling for many to have cut back in unexpected areas.
Julie Arundel
Could it simply be that millions signed up to services like Netflix during the lockdowns when they had time and money on their hands? I signed up to Netflix in April 2020 to see what all the fuss was about, then cancelled a year or so later when the ‘fuss’ turned out to be a lot of mediocre TV shows from the
