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Did you watch avatar, the last airbender with your 9 year old?

No! I've actually tried to steer him to that (because I've never seen it either), but he doesn't have any interest. We watched most of the Trollhunters series on Netflix together, which was surprisingly fun.

My husband is a committed "Arrowverse" viewer, so I've seen most of these, and would rate them thusly:

The Flash and Supergirl are both enjoyable and staffed with likeable characters. I'd be perfectly happy watching them with my (entirely hypothetical) 9-year-old.

Legends of Tomorrow may be the nuttiest network series since Law & Order: SVU. Mostly kid-appropriate, but some things might go over their heads: a recent episode had the legends getting sucked into some alternate universe television reality or something and finding themselves stuck inside parodies of Friends, Star Trek and Downton Abbey. I don't remember much about the early seasons, but my impression is that the show got better after the first season or two.

Arrow is fairly dour and grim in the tradition of Nolan's Batman movies. I find the violence in it pretty heavy (or at least, I would if I were a parent), but ymmv. I find Arrow himself to be a fairly unpleasant character, and one which I can't imagine kids responding to like they would the Flash or Supergirl, but then I didn't like those Nolan movies either (can't speak to the MCU comparison, having only seen a couple of those).

Batwoman is super ugly and nasty, and not at all kid-friendly. If it helps, it is also very clearly the worst of these shows.

Thanks! This is super helpful. He's watched the preview of Supergirl on Netflix and it sounds like that's the one he's been most excited about, but all the forced Arrow mentions keep steering his attention that way. It's less the individual bits of violence I'd be concerned about than it would be the cumulative dour tone, too much of that seems to weigh on him. What I like about Flash is the lightheartedness that balances out the more serious themes.

FWIW (deep sigh), Supergirl and Black Lightning took place in their own universes up through the middle of this past season and were completely separate from the other shows except for one crossover episode per season (and Black Lightning only crossed over for the first time this year). So those two you could pretty much watch without worrying about the rest. But now everything is all mashed together like a gahdamn KFC Famous Bowl.

Thanks, it is confusing, which is why we dipped out toes tentatively in with Flash in the first place.

Katherine Ryan's English sitcom "The Duchess" on Netflix is funny, or funny enough, if you 1) like her and 2) have patience for British mum sitcoms (like Motherland and Catastrophe etc).

Oddly enough my son has also gotten way into the latest Anne of Green Gables adaptation, Anne with an E.

Katherine Ryan is very funny imo but I can't imagine that repurposing her stand-up into a sitcom is additive to the material, or the best use of her persona. also this is not the Netflix thread, it's the "services that aren't Netflix" thread

oh right. ok, 'woke' is alright, though not as funny as I'd hoped.

that's accurate

Peacock gives in to Roku:

https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/roku-nbcuniversal-peacock-deal-nbc-tv-apps-1234775220/

So what do I need if I want to get HBO (max? now?) streamed into my house?

I have a circa 2014 Roku and I don't remember what sort of hardware/streaming pissing match is going on right now.

I don’t know if you can still get it, but there is a just plain “HBO” app on Roku we used, but we didnt get the expanded Max stuff. Used to be HBO Now, but switched to just plain “HBO” when Max came out.

Hoping the Peacock deal means Max might be getting close.

There’s no way to get anything HBO on Roku officially (hax exist of course, I’m told)

jon is correct, there's just an HBO app for Roku that has as much as HBO Now or HBO Go did, and still has new episodes of HBO programming as they air

if your TV enables you to stream from your phone, and there's a 90s movie or new DC superhero TV show on Max that you're really keen on, that's an easy workaround

I guess I’ll have to look into that. That wasn’t the impression I got when they shut down HBO GO

I access HBO on Roku through the Prime channel

i subscribed to nba league pass but the PS4 app doesn’t recognise my credentials. the phone app does, so i guess i’m outputting my phone into the HDMI jack of my tv to watch the celtics blow two more leads lol fml

i do hbo on a roku via the old "HBO NOW" app and it is still working but any of the "MAX" functionality isn't there.
it's amazing how bad people are at this.

No one will believe me but Ratched is really pretty good

I might check it out

HBO is available on Roku

Good to hear as wanted to watch it but reviews have been pretty mixed xps

AHS was too camp for me. Ratched is just right. Gorgeous visually. Serial killers, monstrous medical procedures, drug addiction, sex overload. Really bothers me, though, that they picked a 45 yr old for the lead role??

Ryan Murphy has long been obsessed with sticking Sarah Paulson in everything as prominently as possible.

I know it's standard issue by now, but I'm getting pretty tired of the prequel/origin story model. I'm trying to think if I've ever seen something, from my childhood to now, that really made me wonder "how did so and so get to this point?" Maybe not even "Star Wars" when I was a kid, and that started in medias rex.

agree 100%. I rmde so hard at the Ratched trailers, but my roommate started watching it, and lo and behold it was good, imo

the one review I read was not good (vanity fair), so this is good to hear as I was kind of looking forward to it, even though I'm really sick of Ryan Murphy and his short attention span these days. I like Sarah Paulson a lot but she is kind of getting to a point of over saturation; it seems like she's in everything now. Take some time off!

(on the other hand, good for her since women her age normally stop getting cast in anything)

I heard her interviewed on the radio the other day, and she acknowledged as much, and was careful to say as bad as this pandemic has been for so many, she professionally is happy to have an excuse to take a break.

t/s: "How Nurse Ratched got that way" prequel vs Castle Rock "How Annie Wilkes got that way" prequel

HBO is available on Roku

Ah okay....I'm using my sister's account and I just added the channel, I guess that makes sense that she has a non-cable subscription

thanks yall, I do see an hbo channel. I had previously subscribed until early june of last year right after GoT ended and I and millions of others probably cancelled but had no idea what happened with the max and now etc since

But it doesn’t work if your HBO sub is through your cable provider. So afaic it’s not available, I’m not paying double through Amazon

This is also incorrect: if you had the HBO Now app, it has just dropped the "Now" from the icon and is otherwise unchanged. If you didn't already have the app, you may need to create an account on the HBO Max website, and then use that account to log into the maxless app (and if your cable provider includes Max, you can stream the Max content from another device).

yeah, it works if you just bought direct through HBO prior
but i'm cancelling my sub now because of this dumb shit anyway! well done HBO!

HBO Max has made scrolling through their movie selection much funnier - from 'romance' and then a few dozen forgotten '80s and '90s movies and a couple of recent ones to a few dozen forgotten '80s and '90s movies, a couple of recent ones and Masculin-Feminin and the Umbrellas of Cherbourg.

Not seen Ratched, it may be great, but she's not some Norman Bates figure needing a prequel. She's a petty tyrant of the kind you get in every workplace.

Norman Bates' prequel took up 90 seconds at the end of the film and was fairly unnecessary even then

why

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bS2qRi1mcg&

Ratched is a pretty much a season of AHS but with out anything supernatural.

I guess next The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is going to be a six episode miniseries on Starz?

It's weird, we got HBO Max (free with internet plan) and Disney+ and Hulu a while ago to get us through the pandemic and I just realized I had completely forgotten Amazon Prime Video even existed, it never occurs to me there's another streaming service I could browse through to see if there's something I wanna watch.

I like The Boys, though the three episodes I've seen of season two have just been okay.

Saw that Peacock and Roku are on friendly terms now.

I just realized I had completely forgotten Amazon Prime Video even existed, it never occurs to me there's another streaming service I could browse through to see if there's something I wanna watch.

We'll be waiting for you over in the Bosch thread...

eephus here you go: What's good on Amazon Prime Video

Trying to keep up with what's on eight different services isn't worth it. Click on one randomly and see what they have to offer. Stick with that show until you finish it, repeat with new service.

too normcore for me

i prefer to start 5 shows on five services, eventually forget about them all or what platform theyre on and watch Hill Street Blues reruns instead

T0rr3n7zzz dood

we do that too lol

Peacock seems to have a bunch of good movies on it