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stop trying to make paramount+ happen

"I ultimately quit after my mom passed away, because with her death kind of died a lot of her ideas for my life, and that was its own journey and a difficult one for sure," McCurdy said.

The whole experience led her to say: "I resent my career in a lot of ways," and left her feeling "so unfulfilled by the roles that I played and felt like it was the most just cheesy, embarrassing" thing.

that is a commendable amount of perspective for someone in her position (or anyone, actually). good for her

Hopefully she'll look back with a different perspective on the role someday (and not feel embarrassed); she was funny and did good work.

Trying out Par+ now. To answer Josh’s question: sadly, Beavis and Butt-head does not include the videos.

The movie selection is so ratchet... clearly much of the good stuff had been licensed out. There’s Grease 2 and Grease Live, but not Grease (etc.). All three Godfathers are there at least.

The first episode of the Real World thing is good. They could have half-assed it, but it’s a real production. If you liked the original, you’ll dig it.

(This app also has some prime Nineties Nicktoon nostalgia, if that’s your jam. As for me, I’m firing up “Daria”...)

i'm sure this has been asked before but surely there's already a meta-service that accepts login details for all these OTT providers and scrapes them into a single interface?

...you mean Roku? (I half jest; are you talking about a web interface?)

Amazon Prime (Fire Stick) also lets you search most of them from the main/Home area.

(I think the AppleTV app also does this, but I don’t use it.)

Watching “Rocko’s Modern Life” with the kids – everything about the aesthetic is so insanely “‘90s.”

Apple TV does that for some things but not everything. Netflix doesn’t make their stuff available to the Apple TV app.you have to go into Netflix app to find anything in yhere.

As mentioned, Roku's search app is fairly good for this

it’s been awhile since i used my Roku stick. it used to be discrete apps iirc.

"Fake Famous" was an OK doc, but think the third (or fourth) doc I've seen this month that ends with the arrival of Covid shutting things down.

It turns out Becky from The Real World was in spiritual communication with John Lennon (including songwriting assistance) from 1987 to 2002.

There was a season 5 of Ballers and it is on HBO Max and it is the dumbest thing I have ever seen. Entourage looks like The Sopranos in comparison.

xpost loool that was so very

it's amazing how everyone on the real world turned out exactly like you'd imagine they would

ty for the insistent recommendations of Patriot itt, that show was amazing. agree with whoever said it had one of the best depictions of depression, and it was just genuinely surprising and funny throughout. it's hard to think of anything else that combines such warmth with such darkness and humor

xp I wouldn’t have predicted the turn that Eric took, but it makes total sense.

I’ve been rewatching the original series; it’s still such a pleasure / so much fun.

xpost Yeah we finally finished Patriot and the perfect balance of warmth/bleakness just cannot be overstated. People doing horrific things and being put through horrific ordeals side-by-side with some of the coziest, chummiest depictions of bonhomie I've ever seen on tv. Cool Rick's day-long bachelor party was just great, such a cool hang with people genuinely enjoying one another's company. And then some shit goes down, naturally. But walking that tightrope without the show ever becoming tonally jarring...masterful. Contrasted with something like Search Party, which failed on that count imo and proves that it takes a skilled hand to pull off a balancing act like that.

i could have sworn there was a patriot thread but apparently not

i need to get through the second season still

Patriot depicted the not-so-banality of evil in a way that gets to the crux of why we have so much cause for despair as a society, yet have hope that human individuals may redeem themselves, but without letting individuals off the hook for personal failings

and also highlights the absurdity of the whole enterprise

i could have sworn there was a patriot thread but apparently not

What's good on Amazon Prime Video

I dunno if this is the right thread as its on SyFy but has anyone else seen Resident Alien? Alan Tudyk is great at ridiculous physical comedy and it is delightfully silly.

We stalled out after a couple episodes. Is it worth continuing?

A friend who reviews TV thought it lost the fun and cozy feel of the comic.

I havent read the comic so cant compare, and I'm a Tudyk fan so may be biased but he's absurd and slapsticky in a way I enjoy.

There was also a cheeky Firefly callback when hes telepathically talking to an octopus in a tank who is voiced by Nathan Fillion.

I was into it right away though, so if you werent, maybe it isnt yer bag.

It has flaws but when it's good it really is great, mostly Tudyk's work.

Also just started Patriot, what a phenomenal show. Just finished episode 8.

You guys are killing me, I'm going to have to watch it now.

it is cool

Felt like watching Indiana Jones the other night. And of course, even though the franchise is owned by Disney, the rights remain with Paramount, who had been licensing out to Netflix, but now have their own bullshit service, so if you want to watch Indiana Jones you need Paramount+. And I'm sure that'll be true for the next thing I randomly feel like watching. Fuck all these services.

Josh, it makes you mad every time that you happen to decide that whatever movie you're interested in ought to currently be licensed to a streaming service that you happen to be subscribed to, at the moment it occurs to you to watch that movie. This continues to not be how anything works! It's like deciding on Monday that you want to watch Temple Of Doom on Friday, and sitting down to turn the TV on that night and flicking through the channels expecting to find it.

(It's cheaper to buy a DVD box set of all four Indiana Jones movies than it is to buy downloads of two of 'em fwiw)

I'm just mad that they keep moving around from exclusive deal to exclusive deal is all. of course nothing beats physical media, but if I subscribed to Netflix because I like Indiana Jones, and then Indiana Jones got bought by Disney so I subscribed to Disney, and then all the stuff ended up on Paramount's new service, I'd be even more annoyed.

If you had subscribed to D+ specifically in anticipation of the Indy movies showing up there, it would mean you didn't do your homework.

(You could also rent each movie for a few bucks; or sign up for a trial of Par+ and gorge on them all you want for a month...)

I'm just mad that they keep moving around from exclusive deal to exclusive deal is all.

THIS IS HOW FILM LICENSING WORKS

You can't turn on the TV whenever you want and see Raiders Of The Lost Ark! You can't go to the cinema every week and see Raiders Of The Lost Ark! Netflix doesn't even keep everything that Netflix makes up forever, and they've never had permanent licenses to films (though they probably never take Orson Welles' The Stranger down).

Netflix do have every Indiana Jones film on DVD, plus the TV series, though.

Support your local libraries!

Netflix doesn't even keep everything that Netflix makes up forever

And neither does Amazon. This may have changed, but I was surprised to read on another forum (and then find out for myself) a year or so ago that Whit Stillman's pilot for them had basically been scrubbed from the internet.

http://i.imgur.com/WBs64NK.png

though they probably never take Orson Welles' The Stranger down

It's public domain, so they can keep it up forever, although the Kino version they have/had up is the Library of Congress print, and that might have special issues.

That's exactly what I meant :)

(They seem to have held that one for prestige value for years - it's not like they have much (anything?) else that's OOC.)

lol I know how streaming services and film licensing works. And I know how to see anything I want to see. I'm still allowed to complain!

The one service I have almost no issues with is Criterion, because everything has been curated and stamped with an imprimatur of quality. It's not just a dumping ground for stuff. So sure, things come and go from the service, but I know they're being replaced by other good titles and not necessarily just, like, shuttled over to some other service because of some deal made five years ago. Doesn't mean I don't get frustrated that, say, the Criterion edition of "Rebecca" is currently *only* available to rent and own, but paying for all these different services that *should* have what I want helps me justify finding other ways to watch what they *don't* have, even if I understand *why* such and such film in not on such and such service.