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Do you use Netflix? I <3 Netflix! (That’s a sideways heart for those of us learning internet lingo) So with my Netflix account, we don’t try to stay on top of the movies that were just released to dvd, but rather, enjoy the movies and tv series that are hard to come by in your local rental place.

For instance, I really enjoy British comedies. So I have enjoyed entire series while folding many loads of laundry. Right now, I’m watching “As Time Goes By” with Dame Judy Dench and Geoffrey Palmer. It’s about two former lovers being reunited after a 38 year absence. Of course, they fall in love again, they are just older, and it’s fun watching them in a relaxed comedy. It’s not over the top like Monty Python type stuff. It’s more like the American version of “The Office”, a situation comedy.

So I found this list of Britain’s Best Sitcom’s and whatever is available on netflix, I’ll take it.

British Best Sitcoms is the list, and I know that not near 100 of them will be available on netflix, but I’ve already covered:

# 20 Are You Being Served? (most of this on PBS though, not through netflix)

# 14 Last of the Summer Wine (PBS again, but this is getting added to my netflix queue so I can watch it in it’s entirety

# 12 Keeping Up Appearances (love Mrs. Bucket!)

# 11 Father Ted (I’m thinking about buying this one to watch over and over, it’s a hoot! And it’s actually Irish Comedy, not British)

# 9 The Good Life (a wonderful comedy about a man going off grid in the 1960s, such a contemporary storyline!)

# 3 Vicar of Dibley - Dawn French is hysterical! I love that she is a big woman who is comfortable and proud of who she is.

So that’s what I’m enjoying on Netflix. Josh is enjoying many religious movies and the such. I watch them also, I just don’t always enjoy them as much as the British comedies. And for the kids, I rent old Disney. That’s been fun, watching them get revved up about “Hans Christian Anderson”, “Swiss Family Robinson”, the original “Dr. Doolittle”, etc. Not surprisingly, Josh didn’t watch many of these growing up either, so we all sit down together to watch them. It never hurts not to tell him if it’s a musical either. ;) Course, sometimes, I don’t remember if it is or not since it’s been years since I’ve watched them.

I think next I might rent Xanadu and see if the kids enjoy it with me. Music, Dancing, Gene Kelly and Olivia Newton John. What’s not to like?

Do you use Netflix and what sort of stuff do you rent?