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

"Tubi is now watched as much as a top 5 cable network"

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— The Schlocketeer (@schlocketeer) September 6, 2023

A streaming service you don't have to pay for that mimics the format of traditional tv? It'll never work.

I listened to Quinones on Marc Maron's show last year, really liked what he had to say, def. need to read both of those books. I feel like he's been received with a side eye by some progressives, at least in the bay area; he came to SF recently and I know what aghast at what was going on downtown. there's a pervasive idea that addiction is a symptom and not a cause of homelessness and people seem to think he is firmly in the latter camp. I think it's more complicated than that.

I did find a critique of Quinones on UCSF's Homelessness and Housing Initiative site, which only looks at all this through housing and rent affordability. Implying that being a drug addict in West Virginia is easier than being a drug addict in California because the rents are less seems myopic. If you haven't read either book, I'd go directly to The Least of Us. The charges are against capitalism itself: Big Pharm of course, cartels, the global supply chain, and every institution that contributes to "shit life syndrome" - all of which contribute. If anything, folks should listen to Maron's interview.

Halfway through the final season of Top Boy and so far it's not falling prey to the usual flaws of final seasons. They've only killed off one character we were supposed to care about, and they've disposed of a Special Guest Star that I was fully expecting to develop into a Big Bad with surprising speed.

Bought a blu-ray set of Rockford Files, so I'm all good, better in fact. When it was on prime it was through some free streamer service (not Tubi, but something like it I guess) and there were commercials.

I have come too far in my damn life to deal with commercials, I am never going back to that if I can help it.

oooh bluray rockford? nice

Tubi is great, it doesn’t just mimic cable it mimics kind of shitty ‘90s basic cable with a wide array of sci-fi and horror movies you’d never think to watch otherwise.

I like Tubi for letting me swiftly ffwd to the end of a horror movie if the poster art is better than the film or if I just want the ending. Some other streaming channels have mandatory ads once a film has started.

Posted this on the Garner thread too... YouTube user Cosmic Iguana has been posting full episodes of Garner's 1971 series Nichols. Co-starring Margot Kidder and Stuart Margolin. It's set in the early 1900s so it's kind of a western but there's also motorcycles. There's a little of Maverick and a lot of what becomes the Rockford character. Cool show. Kidder is great. Here's the pilot, I think Iguana is up to episode 19 of the one and only season

I really like the way you can use Letterbox (with the premium tier - doesn't cost much) to filter your watchlist to individual streaming services you have, or all of them at once. I've tried to do this with free services but nothing's quite worked right so the £17.99 a year seems worth it). I hadn't used Letterbox a whole lot before that, and had no watchlist there, but it was easy to import mine from IMDb, where I had a longstanding one. The initial search of where they were all available revealed a whole load were on Tubi, so I've sorted out getting that through my VPN.

Letterboxd, not Letterbox - shows you how little I've been in the habit!

watched Band of the Hand on Tubi last night

I watched a movie on Tubi last night too! "Who'll Stop the Rain" -- very good IMO but violent and pretty unpleasant in other ways. Obviously CCR feature heavily in the soundtrack. And yall know how I feel about those boys.

Tubi ALSO has Cutter's Way, and 8 Million Ways To Die, which is a fine film even if not as good as the novel it's based on.

pretty good bummer crime trilogy right there.

still watching hal hartley on Criterion slowly. watched Simple Men and that movie is nothing like i remember it. i didn't really remember it much at all. martin donovan is the scene-stealer. so funny.

My brother obsessed over Robert Stone's book Dog Soldiers which Stone himself adapted into Who'll Stop the Rain - couldn't figure out what the deal was with his obsession until I found out that the lead character was based on Neal Cassady.

xp I remember it being fairly bad/awkward, even at the height of my teenage Hartley fandom.

Simple Men was filmed almost entirely in the Houston/Galveston Island area, which blows my mind.

Who'll Stop the Rain is a really good, grim post-Vietnam thriller. Fits right in with Cutter's Way, as ian said, but also Night Moves, The Conversation, a few others. I read the book, too. Very good; I've always meant to read more by Stone but haven't.

Two more big faves.

I can't remember if I've seen Simple Men before, I'll have to give it a try. I was in Galveston a few months ago and I could see it being a good backdrop for a film. The downtown area feels frozen in an earlier time.

Night Moves is great. sort of a Jimmy Buffett-ish Chinatown, at the end. i really admired the chutzpah of that ending, just only leading to more questions we'll never know the answer to.

I really like the way you can use Letterbox (with the premium tier - doesn't cost much) to filter your watchlist to individual streaming services you have, or all of them at once.

This has been a gamechanger for me. It took me a while to build out a watchlist, but once I got a few hundred titles on there, being able to filter by service was so useful. I hated scrolling through lists of "new this month on Netflix" or "50 best movies to stream on Hulu" bc there was so much shit I didn't care about, and finding something worthwhile to watch felt overwhelming.

Everybody in this thread do yourselves a favor and watch Cinnamon on Tubi. It's a rural crime thriller — kinda Blood Simple meets True Romance — with an almost all-black cast, including Damon Wayans in a not-really-comedic role (he's very good) and Pam Grier as a matriarchal crime boss (she's terrifying). One of the best things I've seen all year.

I was in Galveston a few months ago and I could see it being a good backdrop for a film. The downtown area feels frozen in an earlier time.

Check out Red Rocket. It's filmed in Texas City and Galveston and since it's a Sean Baker movie it's very you-are-there with the sound design (constant freeway noises, booms from the oil refinery)

I've watched 11 out of 12 episodes of the final season of Ted Lasso. I was really expecting this season to fully jump the shark based on the negative feedback I've read about it (including on this thread). Sure, it never reclaimed the level of season 1, but this hasn't been so bad other than rushing Nate's redemption at the end.

Honestly the fatal flaw of the whole series happened in season 2 when they turned Nate into the villain. That felt like a betrayal of season 1. But of course by s3 they're committed to navigating their way out of that pit. Perhaps if the show had gone for one or two more seasons, or if it had old-school 20-episode seasons, Nate's arc would have felt more believable. But his turn away from Ted was has jarring as is eventual return.

Of course I haven't actually watched the finale yet so maybe I'll come back here and say otherwise later tonight or tomorrow. But it sure seems like they've telegraphed all the final beats of the show and I don't really anticipate any major eyerolls to come. I'd be surprised if they were to, uh, surprise me.

We've been watching that Danish series "Ragnarok" since last year or whenever the 1st season was and I was mildly enjoying it. Til I noticed this week that the IMDB rating for the finale, after a consistent 7ish average, is 3.6 - fark that is low.

I stupidly looked at the reviews to fathom why and accidentally got spoiled, and hahaha oh man. Oh man. I am wondering wether I should tell my other half, or just wait for him to find out.

Sorry, Norwegian. Well whatever.

i watched the 2 seasons of The Cleaner on Britbox. that show is semi-sweet! maybe even bittersweet. but i also laughed out loud more than once. there are some weird episodes.

Christ I couldnt get thru one episode of that show! Maybe it got better after the first one?

its a weird show. his character is weird. he is a happy mondays fan in it after all. helena bonham carter! she's in the first one, right? she's weird in it.

xp a friend convinced me to finish Ted Lasso, I wasn't intending to watch the final season after the very unfunny S2. S3 recaptured some of the funniness, with more focus on soccer again. Episodes still too long but I enjoyed it fine

I was so disappointed when we started watching season three of Warrior to see that they've ditched all the lovely real sets and real streets for shitty, shitty green screen, just like they did with Perry Mason right before it went to live on a farm. Oh well.

they did Warrior in South Africa, right? that first season was so cool.

They did. And it really was. So cool. Even the Irish accents were pretty good.

i love that ublock origin takes all the ads out of tubi. they are owned by fox corp so i have no moral qualms.

I tried the Cleaner but couldn't rreally get into it.
I absolutely LOVE, however, Greg Davies in Taskmaster, viewable on Youtube.

Taskmaster rules!

he does some funny stuff on the cleaner. and there are some really weird moments that i enjoyed. but i wouldn't expect anyone to stick with it. life is short. so much to stream. i will look for taskmaster. i don't really know him from anything. the episode with his ex-girlfriend and the episode with the kid shamen and the episode with the Q/conspiracy guy...i'll remember them. and the influencer one! it is totally an older dude raising his eyebrow at youngs but still...i found it watchable. and funny.
shakin' stevens appearing as the lead singer of a shakin' stevens tribute band called SHAKING STEVENS. that was worth the time it took to get to it right there.

He also has a sitcom called Man Down, which comes and goes from streaming services (I'm sure you can watch it on Channel 4 with a VPN from the US). It's a bit of an acquired taste, but if you get into it, it's very, very funny. Also features everyone's favourite, Mike Wozniak, and the excellent Roisin Conaty. For extra bittersweetness, I think it was the last thing Rik Mayall did before he died, too.

Has a very strange Mark Hamill cameo as well.

For me it doesn't find its feet properly until near the end but the episode where Roisin gets married brings me deep joy every time.

The Cleaner is a remake of a German TV show:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_Scene_Cleaner_(TV_series)

yeah i am gonna watch the german one on MHz at some point. i think they have it. can't believe they haven't made a netflix american version. such a simple premise and you don't need a big budget.

i still need to watch 10 seasons of The Octopus and all the Tatorts first though...

i still think about both the Swedish and UK versions of Humans. quite a bit actually. they were different, and got more different as they went on, but both really good and both deserved more series imo. i never rarely rewatch anything but i might go back in.

oh i forgot but maria and i are watching *SURVIVE THE RAFT* on Hulu. it's pretty fucked up. as reality competition shows can be. they try to get trumpers and trans people and people of color to kill each other but they mostly don't. its watchable though.
i just love the idea of a pitch meeting with the Discovery Channel. "so, tell us a little bit about your idea." "SURVIVOR ON A RAFT!" "okay. we'll sign you up for one season and see how it goes."

i started watching the Lifetime series *Phrogging: Hider in My House* on Hulu and I'm not even done with the first episode and my review of the show is: AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

its frightening. so creepycrawly. its nothing like my fave movie Bad Ronald.

i can't remember the last time a reality show freaked me so bad. its the stuff of childhood nightmares is what it is.

i cannot recommend Painkiller on Netflix after finishing it last night. it's like three different series in one, and only one of them is any good at all (the one with Taylor Kitsch as an addict). The framing device is clunky and stupid (and fictional, so shoehorning in a personal story with the investigator is...pointless) and Matthew Broderick conversing with his dead uncle Sackler goes on entirely too long and is dumb. Complete waste of time.