1. When you start a new series and it’s like nothing and no one exists besides you and that screen.
2. When your butt becomes imprinted on your bed from lack of moving.
3. You start to question why anyone would do anything else besides lay in bed and watch Olivia Pope handle things. “Mom! I’m changing my major to Netflix with a minor in Candy Crush!”
4. Your diet starts to consist of any snack that is within arm’s reach.
5. You consider ceasing the madness and actually doing something productive, but then the next episode starts in FIVE SECONDS…well you have to watch it now!
6. When your boyfriend stops by and you really can’t be bothered with talking to him because all you really want is to watch Emily Thorne plot to destroy the Grayson’s.
7. And then the unspeakable happens! You finish the two seasons of Arrow and now you have to watch the current season on TV…with COMMERCIALS! Leave me alone to grieve for the “Scandal on Netflix with no commercials life” I once led.
8. Or, in the case of Breaking Bad, you finish the whole series on Netflix and you stare at the blank screen and mourn the ending of a wonderful time in your life over a can of frosting.
9. But alas! There is hope on the horizon! Maybe you should watch Orange is the New Black and see what all the fuss is about…