I get the feeling that just about everyone who deals with streaming services has spent far too much time scrolling through to see what might be good to watch. I have. It really takes the fun out of it too. I spend way too much time on it. Like spending way too much time on X or Facebook or Instagram or whatever the kids are doing these days.
So of course I was doing it just tonight. It was kind of complicated too by trying to find something my exceptionally discerning (in her own way) wife might like to see too. I failed, but it was OK. She had her Chinese fantasy drama to watch soon enough anyway.
While I was waiting for that to start though, I did a bit more scrolling (but only through the TV guide) and found an old western just two channels away called Nevada Smith, starring Steve McQueen. I only got to watch 10 minutes, but I found it extremely satisfying. I’m not looking for something that deep. Just give me a good story and keep it moving along. Nevada Smith seemed to fit.
This brings to mind a book I read through quite some time ago titled The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz. It’s nice to have choices, but Schwartz (even back in 2004) was telling us that having too many choices raises our anxiety and, in the end, makes it more difficult to actually function efficiently (I’ll have to pull that book out again — I may even have it on Kindle somewhere). We all experience what Schwartz wrote about 20 years ago now even more. Too much choice. Too much noise. Just too much. We need something simple to get back into life.
Like Nevada Smith…which I really would like to see now.
I wonder if it’s on Netflix?
