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

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.

Huh, AppleTV’s search engine didn’t flag it on Netflix.

netflix doesn’t integrate with apple’s search, irritatingly

AppleTV search finds a bunch of stuff, but misses out on Netflix, Criterion and TCM, to name three. I started using JustWatch based on a certain ILX0r's recommendation and that seems to have every streaming service possible. Just be wary of the double counting wrt MUBI and Amazon Prime! And possible other related Amazon subscriptions.

always ilplex

yeah netflix doesn't have an open movie catalogue AFAICT. I'm not sure what their reasoning is on this.

Our Fire Stick search finds Netflix content (if that’s what we’re talking about). Maybe Apple doesn’t have the same deal in place?

it's opt-in on the part of Netflix and their app, although I'm sure the reasons for not doing so are more political than practical

The Oscar nominated doc "All That Breathes" is on HBO. Highly recommended, I thought it was remarkable.

For some reason the incredible French gangster movie The Crew, directed by Julien Leclercq and starring Sami Bouajila, is no longer on Netflix (imagine Heat but compressed down to 81 minutes), but Leclercq and Bouajila have turned the core concept into a TV series, Ganglands, and the second season just arrived. Each season is six one-hour episodes, hard as fuck and beautifully filmed. (They also made one other movie together, Earth & Blood, that's almost as good as The Crew.)

Not surprising but the adaptation of Elena Ferrante's The Lying Life of Adults on Prime is very good.

The first episode of Poker Face was darker and less funny than I expected. Is the rest of the season like that? Trying to decide if I should reup my Peacock subscription.

First episode is pretty much an outlier (and setting up the premise). Subsequent episodes definitely have comic moments.

There's a dedicated thread:

Truth, Truth, Bullshit...

Finally finished Bad Sisters. Great cast esp Duff, but it went on far too long for my liking - the prick scenes twisted the knife too many times, the murder attempts got repetitive, and the resolution was as predictable as a 1980s BBC sitcom. Some weirdly dated archetypes throughout, felt like they were lampshaded because “it’s Ireland”

Having said that I’m looking forward to a season without the prick, might even be an improvement.

Which archetypes

If you ever wanted to watch a bunch of self-absorbed idiots stumbling through a social deduction game, then Peacock's Traitors is the show for you.

Yeah the British one was great but I have zero interest in watching the American one.

Have finally got around to watching Mozart in the Jungle on Amazon Prime. There are surprisingly few takes on it on here, especially for a show about music. What do people think?

I am finding it very watchable and well-written so far (halfway through season 2), but the likeable characters aren't at all who the writers think they are.

Ah I liked s1 then kinda lost interest. Respect for making a tvshow about classical music though

True, though at times it feels an odd mix of niche in-jokes and guest appearances that only dimly register with me (a non-musician) and things that are so pitched at a mainstream audience as to feel caricatured. Maybe that is exactly the difficulty in trying to make a show on this subject.

Watched Lockwood & Co. It was fine. If you into the genre of telly that's essentially young people running while explaining the plot, you're in for a treat.

Excellent & thorough Folk Horror documentary “Woodlands Dark & Days Bewitched” is streaming on Freevee currently if anyone’s into that sort of thing

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13938338/

It's pretty funny how Lockwood & Co posits that as soon as the ghosts appeared all technological development went into fighting them, so they don't have to deal with mobiles and internet and such. And that it apparently extends even to pop culture, thus the 80's goth needledrops and the 2000AD t-shirt.

I bought an Eros Now subscription a couple of months ago, watched two films on it in the first week, and then it stopped working. Does anyone else use it? Does it work for anyone else? I can't even get it to work enough for me to cancel my subscription. Very annoying.