Whenever your friends tell you viewership numbers for House of Cards or Orange is the New Black, uh, they're lying to your face

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e99SkdcB2UU&w=620&h=315] This is a good lesson in the context I reference in the title of this blog: Netflix is all the rage in certain friend groups/socioeconomic sectors as "Oh, is (such-and-such) streaming?" But here's the important thing to remember: Netflix is a subscriber-based model, which is very different