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

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-01-18/streaming-services-churn-hollywood-netflix-disney

They're going to make it like cancelling a porn site circa 1999 - three calls and two hours of waiting to ditch Hulu Premium this month

Last week I finally cut the cable cord (and got fiber!) after ~25 years of being a Comcast customer, and I was surprised at how easy it ended up being. Maybe it was my tone of voice, but the person in the call center didn't even try to keep me.

are you saying it took you two hours to cancel hulu premium? because you can do that yourself fairly easily by changing your plan.

Anyway, watched Doug Liman's "Locked Down" on HBO Max, which was written and filmed last year. It's ok, I like Anne Hathaway when she doesn't play cutesy, but I had a hard time watching the blatant disregard for any masks? Like, people would put them on for one second and take them off when entering a room? Is this what London was like last year? I just kept thinking "whatever happens to these two, they are probably going to wind up sick as fuck or dead"

They're going to make it

Thanks to whichever one of you nerds recommended the Conny Plank documentary on Amazon however many months ago, it was lovely and really interesting.

Garrett Bradley's documentary feature Time is streaming on Amazon Prime, but if you're a MoMA member who doesn't have it, you can stream it from MoMA's virtual cinema for the next five days starting at noon today:

https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/6779

It's been an especially good year for documentaries, and MoMA is streaming two more great ones before the end of the month: Sam Pollard's MLK/FBI and Frederick Wiseman's City Hall. Those three films alone would probably rank among my top five films of the year.

Thanks for the heads up on Time, will watch that this weekend!

As a big fan of the new cast regular, it pains me to report that the new season of Search Party is outrageously, depressingly bad and I have checked out for good after three episodes.

:/

I checked out after s1. I love Alia Shawkat but I have no idea who the audience for that show is.

i was good for the first two seasons. last season was patchy but certainly watchable. This season is hot garbage.

i gave up somewhere in season 3. began to hate every character

i don't really see enjoying the first couple of seasons of search party but not enjoying the third season? it's not a great drop-off or anything imo. horses for courses ofc.

i think it's a good show. i love john early, he should be in more things.

yup. I loved season 1, liked season 2, am a big fan of most of the actors on the show, esp John Early, but season 3 made some really weird choices. We've only seen the first 2 of season 4 and we'll probably finish it, but not really like it. Cole Escola is generally hilarious as well, but yeah, not feeling this.

I love Escola and have seen several of his live shows but this is not a good role for him. Glad he's getting paid though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8KjZ7wKYUc

It's really one of the most inconsistent shows maybe ever, even in terms of subjective notions of its quality, apparently. We watched and enjoyed the first season and dropped off about halfway through the second when it seemed to go off the rails. Then we just last week pressed through the rest of 2 and I liked 3 a lot, thought it was hilarious. I'm not quite ready to write off 4 yet, but it's definitely back in 'shopping cart with a wonky wheel' territory. I just don't think they quite know what they want the show to be, is the problem.

Variable quality of the show aside, John Early is just next level and I hope he gets all the success he deserves. Just so effortlessly funny pretty much all the time.

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that the 2020 ILX TV poll is now open for ballots:

ILX's Best Television of 2020 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 29, 2021

All you need to do is submit a ballot including your favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

Anyone else in here have WWE Network, NJPW World, STARDOM world, Honor Club, or FITE tv?

No? Just me?

we have a wrestling board don't we?

FWIW, the official @ViacomCBS twitter account just liked my tweet saying Top Gun II will likely go day-and-date or direct to Paramount+ https://t.co/3pucGqjTtQ

— Matthew Ball (OOO) (@ballmatthew) January 21, 2021

Your decision to drop out on Search Party s4 was probably otm, forks. If you didn't like the first three, you aren't gonna like the next three. The most tonally confusing show possibly ever.

Oh wow didn't know there was more out. It is strange but I'm into it. It feels like they never expected it to go past the first season.

Very much into Patriot now :)

Anyone else in here have WWE Network, NJPW World, STARDOM world, Honor Club, or FITE tv?

No? Just me?

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we have a wrestling board don't we?

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yeah but this is the streaming service thread and those are all livestream services

I didn't know four of those existed, so I learned something from that

The most tonally confusing show possibly ever.

But I think season 4 is where the tonal shifts actually become kind of unpleasant. I'm still watching because I have just come to really like all these character/actor pairs, but I feel like a show that was taut and complicated in s1 is now out of ideas except for turning up the volume again and again. And yet I still just like watching these people. I would watch a reboot of this ten years from now when they're all middle-aged and doing something that has nothing to do with the events of the current series.

that's kind of what this season is!

Was. Pretty much immediately stopped being the case after you stopped watching.

One hilarious thread this season is Drew's new penchant for telling the most half-assed and unbelievable lies in the history of lies.

And I mean that's the part of the show that's good! The way the people bleed into each other. Portia playing Dory, and Drew trying to weave a web of lies is kind of Drew playing Dory.

I subscribe to WWE Network and NJPW World—the latter through Amazon—and I use FITE for some PPVs. I also buy AEW PPVs through Bleacher Report.

xp and Dory donning the blond wig this ep -- "playing Portia," kind of -- just heightens this

Derek DelGaudio’s show on Hulu was pretty great:

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/22/959305116/in-of-itself-is-a-study-of-identity-and-magic

Don’t want to spoil anything, but some of the tricks he does are pretty impressive/creepy!

i absolutely loved In and Of Itself, one of the best things I saw last year. unreservedly recommended.

Can kids watch it?

It's pretty heavy. A little bit of swearing. I'd say 12+, maybe? My 14-year-olds liked it but were uncomfortable with some of the emotional stuff.

Made one of them want to pick up his cards again.

my partner and i were both crying by the end. it's really moving.

In and of itself was awesome. Very unexpected and moving. Thanks for recommending.

Interesting, can't wait to watch. My wife just participated in an online Zoom production of something similar, by a Scottish mentalist/magician/monologue guy Scott Silven. The show itself was a little too try-hard on the sentimental side, but the tricks were good, and made good use of the live zoom audience.

this was incredible. Watched it and then again just a few hours later w/ both my daughters...

Ted Lasso is like a magic streaming antidepressant. So glad I watched it. Tempted to start all over again.

Another recommendation for In & Of Itself. I went in with Ricky Jay & His 52 Assistants (a show I saw live) as a reference point - this is absolutely Not That, but what it is is pretty fucking incredible. By all means watch it, preferably with someone else, I think.

and definitely don't ask what it's about! and if you've seen it don't say! it's a show that more or less requires you going in blind for maximum effect.

yes, totally

After only one episode, I am deeming the new weirdo Adam McCay produced show on HBO wherein John Lurie speaks bits of zen wisdom and paints ("Painting with John", naturally) worth your time.

Hereafter shortened to "deemsing it"

but what if you didn't like it? "De-deemsing it"?

Emsing it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv6hkjhOshA