But Is It on Netflix? - Streaming Video Service Thread: Hulu, Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Disney+, Peacock, YouTube TV, AT+T Watch, Philo, Playstation Vue, HBO Max, HBO Now, Facebook Live and many more

Canada has the same larger catalogue as the UK, and when I was in the US for xmas I was confounded by how limited D+ is there — seemed like a bad waste of $$ if you don't have children. Even so, I'll be cancelling it up here too once I'm done with The Americans. Unfortunately I feel like I've scraped the barrel on the handful of streamers available in Canada (not including Criterion, and I will never pay for Amazon)

xxpost I think that was reported. Iirc the cricket rights were bundled with a whole Indian streaming service or something, so while it earned them eyeballs, it didn't earn them much money.

I have access to D+ via a sibling’s account, and honestly I don’t think I’ve watched more than a couple of hours’ stuff on there? There’s some old films I like but if you’re not interested in Marvel or SW stuff then I can’t see why you’d bother. (And they didn’t have the IPL rights here or we’d have had our own subscription before!)

I have access to D+ via a sibling’s account, and honestly I don’t think I’ve watched more than a couple of hours’ stuff on there? There’s some old films I like but if you’re not interested in Marvel or SW stuff then I can’t see why you’d bother. (And they didn’t have the IPL rights here or we’d have had our own subscription before!)

Lmao thanks zing

if you’re not interested in Marvel or SW

And that's the crux of it, isn't it? These two properties alone are two of the most popular, profitable (?) tentpole IP generators of all time, you'd think people "only" into Star Wars and Marvel would still comprise a pretty huge number. Throw in a million Disney/Pixar movies that have a similar hold on a certain section of society and you'd think Disney+ would be set. Hell, they have Avatar, the most popular movie in the world (that weirdly no one I know, nor any of their kids of different ages, has seen or has any interest in seeing, lol).

My kids will never allow me to get rid of Disney+. Mainly Star Wars but also Marvel—and Nat Geo! One son absolutely loves the shows about nature and archeology.

Disney shows/movies probably the least interesting thing on the platform for them. They sometimes like when newer Pixar movies come out but that’s purely due to the hype cycle - they have zero interest in the older movies, with rare exceptions.

The old Kurt Russell live-action flicks, I presume...

I think the US got kind of screwed on Disney+ because Hulu already existed and they decided to do some market segmentation yet charge the same. So there's not a direct parallel and Hulu has a large portion of the FX/whatever content they throw on D+ in other regions. And most of those places didn't have Hulu

yeah, here in Canada, Disney+ definitely seems like the streaming service where you get the most for your money, a pretty huge variety of shows/movies. Netflix on the other hand is seemingly just an endless amount of ridiculous baking game shows (which, admittedly, my kids love to watch).

Crave was overpriced (since only the version with HBO & Showtime was worth subscribing to) but essential for a while, but now that HBO has slowed down so hard it's outrageously overpriced

And Showtime totally imploded, at least for now (maybe all the shows they deleted will come back on Paramount+ at some point? Not like I'm going to subscribe to that).

Just discovered I Love That For You on Showtime, which is hilarious.

We watched that on our free trial, it's fantastic. Glad that one didn't mysteriously disappear like Kidding.

oh man did they just totally delete kidding? I'd torrented that in the past, I think I still have season 2 around which I never watched.

Yeah! We were in the middle of season 2.:(

I have been really enjoying the Spanish TV shows Merlí: Sapere Aude and Smiley, both on Netflix and starring my new TV boyfriend Carlos Cuevas

Smiley is lighter than Merlí, it centers on a gay bar in Barcelona and reminds me of all of the promises and future possibilities I felt were open to me in my 20s. All of the characters in it are people I have known or would want to know

UK D+ has Reservation Dogs and The Bear (is that the Hulu contribution?)

yeah those are both Hulu shows in the US

D+ in the UK has MUPPET SHOW. You can unsuscribe but then how are you gonna see Kris Kristofferson sing a song about seducing Miss Piggy?

Watched The Bear. Loved The Bear. I wasn't as fussed about the realism aspect as some here. The show did enough to flag up the fact that it was a stylised reality I think? Loved the performances and how the frantic moments lent a silence to the quieter interactions. And the music! A whole episode set to 'Spiders (Kidsmoke)'! Would love to read more about the music choices. 'Let Down' *maybe* a bit on the nose over the end credits?
Anyway, great show. I'm not fussed about a second season, tbh, but would watch, obviously.

Also Atlanta, WWDITS, Only Murders etc xps

Subscribed for a month in Australia because it was cheaper than renting the movie my daughter wanted to watch, and having been led to believe it would be full of good things, it turned out Disney+ Is a fucking wasteland.

The streaming era is so wretched in ways that feel like they oughtnt be intrinsic to the technology, that seems to be the theme of this thread and the other threads that are also this thread

Tied in with all the Disney/death of cinema stuff

Xp to myself about The Bear. Kind of a shame that a fable about familial love and reconciliation ends with everything being solved by a literal pile of good old greenbacks.

yeah but there’s a second season to come that will likely bring the inherent problrms!

D+UK also has Buffy, but we are now deep into S7 and almost done with it.

I found bits of The Bear v good, but found the overwhelming testosterone yelling too much to, um, bear.

Would love to read more about the music choices.

https://uproxx.com/indie/the-bear-soundtrack-showrunners-interview/

My other half just signed up for Britbox because he wants to watch every UK procedural in existence. We've already watched so much Happy Valley/Line of Duty/Silent Witness/Cracker/etc and THEY ALL HAVE THE SAME ACTORS how much more can I take.

hahaha tru

we just started Our Friends In The North, also on Britbox (and old), so far so good after EP1 although a bit overacted?

I dont mind a good copper procedural (the recent conclusion to Happy Valley was great) but god, its all so grim.

I just watched all the Crackers, as never saw them the first time round. Not really sure they're the genius they're generally held up to be, but some fantastic performances.

I hope the UK is gonna get WWDITS...? i don't wanna have to subscribe to yet another thing just to watch one thing.

right now I'm rewatching Party Down on dvd

WWDITS is on iPlayer!

Seasons 1-3

ya I mean the latest series. ditto Atlanta. bbc2 always had them in the past!

Watched Karen Pirie on Britbox yesterday with the folks, would recommend. Procedural set in St. Andrews, excellent female lead DS getting her first big case. Good twists parceling out the info, and a good cast.

maybe Life on Mars would work as a balance to Happy Value

although that also suffers from THEY ALL HAVE THE SAME ACTORS

ya I mean the latest series. ditto Atlanta. bbc2 always had them in the past!

Not sure BBC had more than the first two seasons of Atlanta but both shows are on Disney+ in the UK and you should be able to find a 3 month free offer or similar if you've not had it before

Streaming services really hate telling you what's on their services unless you sign up, huh

The Ark (Peacock) is the cheapest, shittiest looking show I’ve seen in a long time.

when i wrote the thread title way back in late 2019 i was limited to 13 immediate and mostly not yet released services.

In early 2013, four years later in the US alone, we have Netflix, Amazon, Disney / ESPN, Hulu, HBO, Discovery, YouTube Premium, Paramount/Showtime, Apple, Peacock, Curiosity, Mubi, Crunchyroll/Funimation, Starz, Britbox, BET, Acorn, Shudder, AMC, IFC, Sundance, Crackle, Tubi, Roku, Pluto, Plex, Facebook, Freevee, Eros, NBA, MLB, Criterion...

...and more on the way!: https://thedirect.com/article/warner-bros-streaming-service-new-free

it's entirely possible to now spend over three hundred bucks a month for cable without getting cable. progress!

I wanted to rewatch Breaking Bad but I guess it's only on AMC+... time to re-learn how to pirate effetively.

pretty sure it's on Netflix?

breaking bad is on netflix. justwatch.com is a great resource if you want to know where stuff is streaming

Listen it’s never a bad time to relearn how to pirate effectively.