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

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.

yeah the ads are horrible

watched *Alcarras* on Mubi.

what'd ya think? I dug it.

I liked it! that family was soclose. thisclose. hard to believe that they were all actors. but maybe they were just amazing actors. hard to believe that they all weren't born there under the peach trees.

Alfred, I think you might like Azor if you haven't seen it.

Had no idea there were ads xps

Are they during shows or just before?

My dark web connection and family members sharing passwords has been pretty valuable as far as being able to watch all the content that's out there. What we do pay for is criterion, netflix, and amazon. Amazon feels like the least valuable, they have a few good shows here and there but I don't go running to it, it's usually the last choice. Netflix has so many international shows which is pretty valuable, it's like a golden age for that. Criterion is the best though.

I hardly watch anything on Amazon; I only even have it because I need a Prime membership to get things delivered with reasonable speed out here in the middle of nowhere. I've never used Amazon Music or taken any of the ebooks.

I watched the Expanse and Bosch on Amazon, and that Icelandic show trapped when they had it. They had In the Line of Duty for a minute and Spiral as well. Maybe there are some other good things on there that I'm forgetting, but I just never think to go there, they don't really have much of an identity.

They have The Peripheral and The Boys too

Prime has good movies. i used to watch it when i watched stuff thru our playstation. and i did admire their b-movie selection.

I'm sure I could find stuff if I looked but I never think to look. Right now I'm watching The Bear with my wife and Power by myself. At the end of this week Warrior comes back on Max so I'll be diving into that.

Warrior is top notch. as is the Power saga. Raising Kanan is my favorite Power series. Patina Miller gives one of the best performances i've ever seen on t.v. in Raising Kanan. it's up there with any Sopranos or Wire character.

another fave of mine on Mubi was *America As Seen By A Frenchman* from 1960. so good and so hilarious. French title: L'Amérique insolite.

Does Warrior get, like, good good? I watched the first few episodes and it's enjoyable, love the fight scenes (so much better than anything in John Wick, jeez). But there's also a lot of bad on-the-nose dialogue and authentically Cinemax gratuitous sex scenes, more Peaky Blinders than Deadwood.