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Things come and go so quickly/randomly I figure whats the point?

I actually just went through a bunch of my streaming stuff and edited my watch list, which was useful, because there was stuff I had downloaded months ago that I hadn't gotten around to watching yet, and I learned a bunch of it had finally made its way to one of the services.

Looks like Muppets Take Manhattan isn't there either, and some other Muppets stuff. Rights must be a mess.

For All Mankind on Apple TV is pretty good

yes! agree. I am enjoying it. Ep 3 with their take on theMercury 13 women was really great imo

Ooh, that looks just my thing!

100% your thing

it’s so spacenerdy, i love it so much

though it is weird af that frank sobotka is deke slayton

I ordered, then cancelled Disney + after being unable to stream anything without it freezing for extended periods or just simply stalling out before ever loading any content. Would be nice if the apps would allow you to adjust streaming quality settings, or for that matter any common customizations like that.

ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING is censored on Disney+, altering the only good line ("Don't fuck with the babysitter" becomes "Don't fool with..."). How is this a paid streaming service?

— Bill Chambers (@flmfrkcentral) January 2, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK2ZGOsbeqo

When I was a kid we lived next to an office building which housed the local McDonalds corporate office. We would skateboard in the underground parking lot under the building, and at some point in the late 70s/early 80s we found winning McDonalds Monopoly pieces in and around the dumpster. These were all just for food, mind you. I think they were throwing out all the winning tickets in that dumpster (without voiding them or destroying them). Me and my friend would grab them, head to McDonalds, and ask people to get us the food (since you had to make a purchase). Many chicken nuggets were consumed.

apple tv+ is the most barren of these innit? around 20 original series, then everything else you need to pay for.

yeah, they are not doing well. I want to rep for "Little America" though which is very good.

dis+ is very lame to me. basically one original show so far?? thought they'd be smart and have tons of new content in the hopper. Netflix is lapping them.

Dis+ is very much not meant for people like us. It is for people who kids who want to watch Aladdin over and over again.

the novelty of being able to watch boy meets world was kinda fun for 3 minutes till I started an episode...
same with most of the old stuff on there.

well if they have dreams of stomping out their competitors then they'll need more than that

Agree, I'm having fun catching up on all of the Star Wars shows I'd never seen but once I'm done I won't have much use for it until the new Marvel shows drop (although I'm mildly intrigued by all the cruddy Fox Kids early-'90s Marvel cartoons on there, at least until I actually try to watch them). If it hadn't been gifted to me I probably would've waited a year to get onboard.

yeah we got disney+ off a free trial so boo could watch the baby yoda show (as she thinks of it), and we've let it roll one paid month to continue my project of watching a bunch of listless and occasionally charming 70s live-action movie. in that time, so far i think the only new thing they've added was the CGI Lion King remake. tellingly, the Roku app doesn't even *have* a "newly added" section (along with many other odd interface choices). agreed that it's basically for families that in earlier times would have bought a bunch of clamshell VHS, and got fancy cable packages solely for the sake of the disney channel. once I can finally arrange for my one buddy to come over for a double feature of "the strongest man in the world" and "the castaway cowboy," i'm dropping this thing for either Mubi or Criterion Channel.

i feel like cancelling disney + since mandalorian is done, and picking it up again when the new marvel shows start.

Watch the Clone Wars. I'm promoting it all over the place, it's great. And a new final season is airing streaming soon.

The Imagineering docuseries was quite good, as well. Surprisingly more objective than I'd expected, too.

We had PS Vue which dies at the end of this month RIP
have now signed up for YouTube Tv which seems like it has pretty much the same stuff & local channels.

we also got appletv+ free for a year
i like the Morning Show & For All Mankind, yet to investigate their other shows

Dis+ is very much not meant for people like us.

haha Disney + is like all the popular content that I have no desire to see (or see again) -- all conveniently packaged for me not to subscribe to!

I'm pretty sure Disney has not fixed the Simpsons yet. We watched a couple, and they looked like shit.

I was never going to sign up but they did inspire me to pick up the DVD sets whenever I see them at thrift stores in decent condition. (So far I've picked up 3 and 6.)

Only on the USA network right now afaict but I just watched the first episode of Briarpatch and I think I'm on board. Rosario Dawson, shady events in a small Texas town, some mild surrealism

Yeah I liked it! The surreal parts feel a tad forced but I’m rolling w it

Listened to the Watch special on Briarpatch and the way they plan to do recap podcasts is a Serial-style true-crime podcast by one of the characters in the show, which I thought sounded cool. Is there a more high-profile example of a TV critic becoming a show runner?

I like it. It felt a little clumsy, but the dialogue is fun and the acting is great!

Its on hulu i believe

Only on the USA network right now afaict

lol

I am watching two streaming shows rn. I like them both.

1) Wicked Tuna on Nat Geo (through Disney+) is a silly 2012 series following a bunch of bluefin tuna fishermen off the coast of Massachusetts. Fantastic personalities, low production quality, lots of great accents.

2) McMillion$, ep. 1, on HBO, a pretty compelling new wild docu-series about the rigged Monopoly games that ran in the '90s and '00s. And more entertaining than the documentary itself (which is good, if a little low-budget re-enacty at times), are the fantastic personalities, great accents and ... yeah, I'm an easy mark.

Increasingly, I realize that I'm drawn to shows about hustlers, hucksters, and frauds. My ideal subject is, like, a working-class saga about an Elizabeth Holmes type.

Counterpart is now on Prime. My premium tv subscription ended before I ever saw the last couple episodes so I’m enthused to see how it ended

Counterpart was such an amazing surprise and I hope more people check it out if it's on Prime. Spy show + sci-fi was already likely to satisfy me but the story is excellent. Justin Marks is heading the FX Shogun remake next, which I'm excited about

i just started it - so good!!

What is better than JK Simmons? JK Simmons x 2

it’s genius casting -
those congenial older Dad-type roles are kind if his bread & butter
but
he can be SO good as the grittier type of hardass (his arc as an excon grifter on Veronica Mars for example was so good)

best of both worlds - and they really feel like 2 diff characters, partly bc of the physicality he gives

it was a little confusing to jump back in after a break because as the two characters gain experience they start to react similarly!

Hoping High Fidelity is getting all of the "remember this from the book/movie?" out of its system in this first episode

unfortunately, no. they recreate a lot of the plot beats and mysteriously listen to nearly the same slate of music. it’s truly weird

it looks stupid but I'm not going to pretend that I'm not going to watch it

it looks stupid but i'm not going to pretend that I'm going to watch it

xxxp - bummer. "We made Jack Black's character a black woman with the exact same personality but we better cast someone overweight so they'll know who it is" is mind-boggling.

what if the main character is the daughter of the actress who played the character the movie version of her character fell for?

The Lisa Bonet stand-in is no Lisa Bonet

i seriously had a split second where I forgot about lisa bonet and lenny kravitz.

not allowed

The Night Manager is pretty good and there are a lot of 'that guys' in the cast - Lepidus and Brutus from Rome! The guy from In The Loop climbing the mountain of conflict!

Haha I wish I’d read this thread before I watched two episodes of high fidelity. I actually thought Zoe Kravitz was its only redeeming quality, even if her Bowie top five was basic af

no berlin trilogy in top 5 is really bonkers

the romanoffs is a dud

i ended up liking High Fidelity. they did a good job casting.

Astutely sensing a marketing opportunity, Disney is apparently adding Frozen 2 to Disney+ months ahead of schedule. I wonder if other services will follow suit with similar exclusives.