Well, I bribed them with pizza.
They grumbled and whined until the show actually *started*, then they and my sister were super engaged, pausing Netflix to make comments like "Wait, is he evil?" (yes) and "Oh my god, they're dating aren't they?" (yes again. honestly, I don't know how my family does this) - and then they begged to watch the second ep right then and there :)
I gracefully refrained from saying I told them so, so I'll say it here - I told them so!
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They grumbled and whined until the show actually *started*, then they and my sister were super engaged, pausing Netflix to make comments like "Wait, is he evil?" (yes) and "Oh my god, they're dating aren't they?" (yes again. honestly, I don't know how my family does this) - and then they begged to watch the second ep right then and there :)
I gracefully refrained from saying I told them so, so I'll say it here - I told them so!
Japan’s 72 Microseasons
How A Fungus And A Tree Translated Underground Hugeness To Mainstream Success
What America’s immigrants looked like when they arrived on Ellis Island
Sesame Street Just Welcomed Its First Autistic Muppet
Bernie Sanders Wants to Turn Post Offices Into Banks
9 Things Movies Get Wrong in 16th-Century Costume
Scientists can now “squeeze” light, a breakthrough that could make computers millions of times faster
The Lost History of Gay Adult Adoption
How Friendships Change in Adulthood
Our Skin Is Covered With Invisible Stripes
Why Are Your Fav Abbrevs Totes Legit Hard to Spell?
The First Ever Chinese-Yiddish Song
Lead Poisoning Rampant for Wealthy Medieval Europeans
As oil industry bleeds jobs, Asia's green energy drive offers bright spot
The Lowdown on the Lowline, the World's First Underground Park
Instead of Eyelids, This Fish Retracts Its Eyeballs
Digital books stagnate in closed, dull systems, while printed books are shareable, lovely and enduring. What comes next?
Surviving a Nuclear Attack with Spam, and Other Images from Cold War Fallout Shelters
On losing things, losing people, and finding God at Unclaimed Baggage Center
A debtors’ prison in Mississippi
Prison sentences are getting shorter. But racial disparities are getting worse.
The NYPD Fails to Learn the Lessons of Past Bigotries
NSA advisory sparks concern of secret advance ushering in cryptoapocalypse
Plague Was Infecting Humans 3,300 Years Earlier Than Thought
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