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Does it improve from episode 1, or is that representative?

The Last Kingdom movie is one of the worst things I've ever sat through. 2-2.5 seasons of plot smashed into 1:50.

I've only seen 3 episodes but so far I liked the first one the best.

Extraction II is better than Extraction. Almost feels like it was directed by Peter Hyams. If that means anything to you, dive in.

― but also fuck you (unperson)

I hadn't planned on watching 2, thought the first one was meh, but your taste in action trash seems to align with mine so I gave it a go -- you're right, this one is a big improvement. Especially liked the train sequence.

No SWARM talk?

we watched the first episode and in a very rare experience, just decided we didn't want to get into something that dark at that moment.

Small discussion upthread. It is dark fr. Not always an enjoyable watch like Atlanta was but still compelling

I'm up to the fifth episode but haven't had the mood to get back into it for weeks now - it's good but yeah, the bleakness is a little much

i will say i was pleasantly surprised/impressed by the Billie Eilish episode - thought she was fantastic and I kinda wanna see her in more things

Yes! Also, she very much seemed like a believable 30+yo leader figure, not a teenager as I believe she is(?)

21, although we're old enough to probably assume she's a teenager for another decade or so

what do you guys pay for in 2023? i pay for a lot. i blame the pandemic. i justify it somehow. oh right i don't do anything else. except work. i pay for...HULU live. mostly for my dad so that he can watch endless amounts of msnc and cnbc. other than that he mostly watches endless episodes of madame secretary, blue bloods, and longmire. (i had already watched multiple seasons of those shows before he moved in. so, i've had enough of them.) HULU live is like cable. 100 bucks a month. i get other stuff with HULU. Disney+, ESPN+, HBO, Starz (which i mainly got to watch all the Power shows.)

I use Roku. I like HULU because then i can just watch the TCM channel, HBO, etc, separate from HULU. I also pay for NETFLIX. Someone else pays for SPOTIFY. it's on my ROKU. some sort of family account. I never ever use it. I pay for YOUTUBE premium and that's the only way that I listen to music on the internet. I prefer the sound. SPOTIFY always sounds like digital radio to me. The kind at the end of cable t.v. I pay for CRITERION. MUBI. OVID. Someone pays for CRUNCHYROLL. Maybe me? Maybe Cyrus? But Cyrus and I need it for One Piece. We watched all of One Piece during the pandemic. We are still watching it. I actually PAY PBS 5 bucks a month to get PBS Passport. Every show that they show. (i am digging Luna + Sophie right now. which is actually called SOKO Potsdam but PBS likes a softer title I guess. I LOVE Luna on this show. Such a real performance on a pretty standard cop show. Maybe she's a method actor.) I think I pay for PEACOCK. I must. I watch stuff on there only every once in a while. I pay for ACORN, BRIT BOX, and MHz. I pay for SHUDDER. (i don't pay for paramount+ or mgm+ or apple + or Amazon. if the pandemic had been 6 months longer I totally would though. i mostly don't pay for amazon and apple because fuck amazon and apple.)

I think that's it. Hulu, Netflix, Youtube Premium, Crunchyroll, PBS, Peacock, Acorn, Brit Box, MHz, Shudder. never pulled the trigger on BFI Player. or BBC Select which for some reason is only available on the actual Roku Channel itself and for some reason i didn't like that about it.

I also justify it because I don't smoke or drink anymore. I eat edibles and watch t.v. and read. okay, the edibles are an expense. but nowhere near what i used to pay for smokes and booze. (the main reason why i stopped coming here is because of how hard everything was the last 5 years. it feels good to make it through to some other side. filled with tornadoes and trump. i started exercising. i have a stationary bike right in front of my huge television set. i try to do at least five miles a day. i stopped eating (most) sugar in march of this year. lost 30 pounds.)

I pay for Hulu ATM but that's because I re-up when it's got a Black Friday sale ($2/month for a year).

I have let my Apple TV+, Netflix, and Peacock subs lapse, but I'll re-up when the shows I like come back.

We pay for Amazon, Netflix and Hulu consistently, and I’ll usually sign up for a month of HBO once a show I want to watch is complete so I can binge it. We have a free peacock subscription and I’ll usually do the free trials for YouTube premium and apple that I get occasionally. I set alarms in my calendar to remind me to cancel.

I’m tempted to sign up for Brit box.

it is great to see you here scott. and great to hear you feel you’ve come through a harder patch. i love reading what you write.

Hulu as part of the Disney+ Espn+ bundle, Prime, Peacock Premium, and Max or HBO or whatever it is now but we’re done with that starting August;
Apple+ currently but I think we’re dropping that too maybe idk

we dumped netflix last year & i dont miss it

every once in a while, i am glad i have netflix. half of the programming i watch on netflix follows the basic structure of The Long Kiss Goodnight. Retired assassins abound. Sometimes it feels like what i need. but i could totally live without a lot of it.

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

it is great to see you here scott. and great to hear you feel you’ve come through a harder patch. i love reading what you write.

I get Netflix and Max free via other services, pay for Shudder and Peacock, get Apple+, Hulu and Paramount drafting off family plans.

Great to see you back here, Scott. Summer is upon us, might I suggest it might be time for another Sweet Smoke for Hotheads Mix?

I've got Criterion Channel and Amazon (because it's included with Prime, rather than because I sought it out). Had HBO Max when I was watching Succession, since it was a nice Sunday ritual. My first resort is just downloading torrents/Usenet, though, and watching through the Roku Plex app. Generally, I subscribe to watch something specific I can't find a good download for, and then just try to watching other things on that platform until I cancel at the end of the period.

Pay for Disney and Prime and have Apple free for rest of year. Did have Netflix but was sharing ex's password so recent clampdown put a stop to that. Was thinking of subscribing but they keep cancelling the shows I like so thought fuck them and am watching via other means instead.

we pay for Hulu, Apple+, and Netflix. Get HBO/Max and Amazon Prime via paying for other services. Netflix is the one we might drop.

pay for:
hulu w/o ads ($12/mo)
shudder ($6/mo)
ring of honor (which is just wrestling but is still $10/mo)
criterion ($11/mo)

mooch off of others for:
max
prime

finally canceled netflix last month, unfortunately right before i think you should leave premiered

Pay for:
Prime
Hulu + Max
Netflix

Don't want any others, really. The good thing about certain shows being on Apple or Paramount or whatever is I can immediately dismiss the idea of ever seeing them.

just having prime/hulu+/netflix makes sense. if i were more of a sensible person i would do this.

if worse came to worse i could totally live on nothing but youtube and free roku channels like tubi but hey that's what makes people so uh...whatever i am.

We dropped Netflix awhile back and feel good about it, currently pay for HBO and Hulu. Might drop Hulu for awhile after watching The Great and the next season of What We Do in the Shadows? Idk. Hi Scott!

as long as hulu continues to have the entirety of sailor moon which is prohibitively expensive to own i will subscribe to it

or maybe i should cancel it and spend a year saving for the blu rays

no i’ll take the more passive option

What I subscribe to in order of how unlikely I am to ever cancel them:

Criterion
Max
Shudder
Hulu
MUBI
Paramount+
Netflix
Amazon Prime Video
Disney+
Peacock
AppleTV+ [in fact, already putting this one on hiatus next month]

Literally the only reason Hulu ranks that highly is Golden Girls

The Criterion Channel seems really cool but I don't have that refined a palate. I need violent action trash way more than I need meditative art films.

there is tons of blood and action on criterion.

Disney is great value in the UK as it also has all those Hulu/FX shows

not criterion, but i do save movies on hulu and tcm had *Dark Of The Sun* on and whoo boy that movie is crazy! and exciting too! 1968. scary rod taylor and jim brown and yvette mimieux in the congo. i love train action movies too. this whole movie is a train-ride and mayhem. and a nazi too. for the hell of it. there is a scene at the end with rod taylor chasing someone in a jeep that is flat-out bonkers. better than most current neflix action.
speaking of action...

If I lost all the other streaming services I'd probably survive just fine with Tubi + Comet + a little piracy. Tubi had a four hour block of Twilight Zone and then Farscape this afternoon, really all you need.

Tubi definitely the best of the "free with ads" streamers. Would definitely pay for a version with better video quality and no ads.

I'm glad I got a founding subscription to the Criterion Channel, it has an incredible selection of films. It and Mubi and Kanopy are mainstays for me and are about to become even more important with the impending death of Netflix DVD.

I have Peacock for free (with ads at the beginning), Max on my niece's family membership account, Netflix, Prime, Apple TV+ and Hulu/Paramount+

HBO Max has a surprising catalog of classic movies which you wouldn't find unless you searched, I've been impressed

If I want the best shot of randomly finding a movie to watch, I will indeed go with Max. I've found things I've never heard of, that I liked enough to watch all of and enjoy (most recently: this Norwegian disaster film).

If I want to stream a particular movie that I've thought of in advance – and not necessarily something obscure – the chances of it being available on any of the services seem to be approx. 1%. (And in that recent 1% case, I found Michael J. Fox's Light of Day available to "rent," in SD, on Prime... and the file wouldn't even play, I had to request a refund.)

Tubi is ok but it's even better if you install a VPN on your TV, that way you can watch American Tubi which has loads of great stuff (compared to Tubi in New Zealand). Also you can watch BBC iPlayer if you can find your way around the iPlayer menu with your TV remote.

Speaking of BBC iPlayer, that new thing with Michael Sheen & Sharon Horgan - Best Interests - is very good.

aha, not all Tubis are created equal. Who knew?

the Roku Filmrise channels sometimes have really amazing things on them. that you don't find elsewhere. they are all just free channels. all these free channels are good if you just really need to see morvern callar or train to busan in a hurry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8huyeTjZjik

Kanopy (free w/LA Library) and the Criterion Channel ($99 yearly) are the two that I will never cancel. Everything else I leech, finagle, hit the dark.net for.

TCM got gutted by Zaslav today

We have Disney+ free, and BBC etc with the tv licence. I think we have Amazon Prime but find it hard to know what's free on there.
then I pay for one subscription thing and tend to cycle them round to catch up on what's on there. Currently it's Now TV for Succession but also catching up on The Rehearsal, True Detective etc. Will probably go for Apple or Netflix next - been without Netflix for ages.

watched *A Brighter Summer Day* with Cyrus. I watched it a few weeks ago. which means i have devoted 8 hours to that film. happy to do it! its so great. so many doorways! if you drank every time someone stood in or passed through a doorway you would be so drunk! on Criterion.

watched *Alcarras* on Mubi. because Catalonian peach farmers need to be heard from. finishing the movie *Azor* now. also on Mubi. Intrigue among the monied in Argentina. Bankers. Horses. Swimming pools.

By far our most expensive subscription here in Ireland is our Sky box, which is over €80 a month really just so we can watch the HBO shows that Sky has access to (which does not include HBO Max shows like Station Eleven or Minx) and the BBC. At this point that's the one I would drop if I needed to cut corners.

Can't you switch to Now TV, which will have all those shows at a fraction of the price?

We did try it once, but it's so janky, and there are so many ads, we found it impossibly annoying.