knitdanIn ur baseKillin ur guysRegistered Userregular
Maybe I’m the weird one but there’s still enough content for me personally to justify paying for the service. If money starts getting super tight I can still drop down to the bottom tier, since I only have the one screen and don’t really need HD.
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
There is some bizarre way to get Netflix (and others?) added on to your Comcast subscription as well, and I believe from there you can view/access Netflix through your on demand menus
yeah most modern cable boxes double as streaming devices anyway, so the major (and some minor) streaming services have apps on it
i use my comcast box to subscribe to brown sugar, for example
It feels a little wild to say there's nothin on netflix. There's...so much...it's just that it's not all laser targeted at me. That's fine, it's basically like 20 networks worth of content instead of just one.
I think my main criticism would be that I really do think the binge model, while there may certainly be metrics that show it works successfully for viewership numbers, means that shows leave the public consciousness too quickly and makes it very difficult to have water cooler conversations about them because everyone watches at a different pace, and it also fucks up the pacing of the series not having those week to week cliffhangers/big moments. I wish that netflix wouldn't do the binge thing with EVERY show.
And secondly is netflix jail for anime sucks, just do the whole series at once everywhere or weekly everywhere stop makin me wait for 3-6 months and have to hear a bunch of assholes who pirate shit spoil the show. I know the genre is piracy heavy but their competitors get their episodes out day and date with subs and it works just fine. But this is a very niche problem.
But like, I'd probably drop my Disney+/Hulu/ESPN bundle first, and if Amazon Prime wasn't kinda tied into so much other shit it would go next. HBO Max and Netflix are even for me in that they provide enough shows throughout the year that I wouldn't want to get rid of them.
Personally, I just don't watch nearly as much tv as most people here, so I have to consider my cost/benefit scenarios. This isn't a ding on netflix, it's more that I think the netflix content is not copacetic with my viewing habits. I have Prime anyway because it ties into other stuff, and I don't do rewatches or nostalgia tv very much. So what I'm looking for in an additional streaming service is at least 3-4 high value prestige productions per year that I can't get elsewhere, which is probably more akin to the HBO lineup.
My current netflix list has like ... two ongoing things I'm actually keen on watching (as opposed to just curious about), both of which I can get elsewhere, and a couple of cancelled shows. And Grand Designs.
But like I said this is just an assessment of "Ok for me, personally, is this worth $15 a month?" and realising that actually it probably isn't. If I was in Australia I'd be thinking differently because the lineup is different there, and you can't access eg. hulu, or a bunch of Prime stuff for that matter.
I'm just not sure I agree with the idea that Netflix surely must start charging more again so they can keep accelerating their originals production. Whenever it slows down, that price is not coming back down in response, and I presume like every major company spending as much as they can they're also avoiding as much taxation as possible for extra savings.
I'm having trouble seeing how this is a change for the better for me, given how wide of an audience they have to appeal to meaning 99%+ of their originals range from disinterest, garbage, or outright offensive and making me rethink giving them money at all. Sure, it should mean they'll get another thing out for me again slightly more often, but that feels like pretty poor calculus as a subscriber.
I’m at my folks house and we’re watching The Vicar of Dibley and it’s been ages since I’d seen. Peter Capaldi just showed up with an Oxford accent and was nice. I do t know how to deal with this
Every year at Christmas we watch the Vicar of Dibley Christmas specials. They are good.
AETN U.K.’s and Comcast’s Sky History channel has canceled controversial woodworking program “The Chop: Britain’s Top Woodworker” after a raging controversy around a participant allegedly sporting Nazi tattoos.
The participant, Darren Lumsden, has the number 88 tattooed on his cheek. Since 8 is the eighth letter of the alphabet, it is considered a numerical code for the phrase “Heil Hitler,” used by white supremacists. Last week, Sky History said that the number referred to the year of Lumsden’s father’s death. However, an investigation by U.K. tabloid Daily Mail revealed that Lumsden’s father, Trevor, remains very much alive.
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AETN U.K.’s and Comcast’s Sky History channel has canceled controversial woodworking program “The Chop: Britain’s Top Woodworker” after a raging controversy around a participant allegedly sporting Nazi tattoos.
The participant, Darren Lumsden, has the number 88 tattooed on his cheek. Since 8 is the eighth letter of the alphabet, it is considered a numerical code for the phrase “Heil Hitler,” used by white supremacists. Last week, Sky History said that the number referred to the year of Lumsden’s father’s death. However, an investigation by U.K. tabloid Daily Mail revealed that Lumsden’s father, Trevor, remains very much alive.
I’m at my folks house and we’re watching The Vicar of Dibley and it’s been ages since I’d seen. Peter Capaldi just showed up with an Oxford accent and was nice. I do t know how to deal with this
Every year at Christmas we watch the Vicar of Dibley Christmas specials. They are good.
The only one I remember is the one where she goes to everyone's Christmas dinners and can't refuse food and ends up riding home in the bucket of a front end loader.
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
I'm nearing the end of the second season of Cheers.
Just finished "Fortune and Men's Weight"
I thought it near the end of the first season, but I feel wholly confident declaring that I don't think Sam & Diane are a good couple.
Break up! Please, for the sake of everyone, break up and stay broken up!
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I’m at my folks house and we’re watching The Vicar of Dibley and it’s been ages since I’d seen. Peter Capaldi just showed up with an Oxford accent and was nice. I do t know how to deal with this
Every year at Christmas we watch the Vicar of Dibley Christmas specials. They are good.
The only one I remember is the one where she goes to everyone's Christmas dinners and can't refuse food and ends up riding home in the bucket of a front end loader.
There is also the one where they stage the living nativity and it goes wrong a bunch of ways but also okay and the one where they try to come up with the Christmas Carol.
So on the topic of netflix stuff worth watching, my wife has been watching Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts (I've been in the room and watching for...eh...2/3rds of the episodes through the end of season 2).
Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
been catching up on Taskmaster
what I like about this show is that it is not a game show despite having many of the trappings of a gameshow
so it has points and games but it is allowed to be unfair when being unfair is the funniest thing that can happen, and, importantly, everyone on the show understands and accepts this
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
what I like about this show is that it is not a game show despite having many of the trappings of a gameshow
so it has points and games but it is allowed to be unfair when being unfair is the funniest thing that can happen, and, importantly, everyone on the show understands and accepts this
The best parts of taskmaster are when people try to cheat without abandon for the cameras surrounding them
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
I'm 4 episodes into Evil and I'm not sure where I'm at with it.
It's compelling enough that I'll probably stick it out to the end of the season, but so far I'm not really feeling it the way folks in here seem to have been.
NEVER MIND, I JUST GOT TO EPISODE 8 AND THIS SHOW RULES
I'm 4 episodes into Evil and I'm not sure where I'm at with it.
It's compelling enough that I'll probably stick it out to the end of the season, but so far I'm not really feeling it the way folks in here seem to have been.
NEVER MIND, I JUST GOT TO EPISODE 8 AND THIS SHOW RULES
I KNOW, RIGHT
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Let me know if the cat cracked you up as much as it did me.
My favorite part of the show is that it is a “wacky” one-off that is still rooted in the characters. Of course Dean, a kid who was traumatized as his dad hauled him around the country and left him alone to watch TV in hotel rooms while he went to fight monsters, would fixate on Scooby-Do repeats as one of the few stable points in his life.
That remains the only episode of Supernatural I've ever seen and I kinda feel like I can't watch any other episodes now
there are many good episodes of supernatural, but you picked the best one if you're only ever gonna watch just one
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
edited October 2020
Up next, Xena: Warrior Princess' second season episode Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.
Xena and Gabrielle join forces with Joxer and Orpheus to defeat Bacchus (portrayed akin to Tim Curry's Satan in Legend), who is transforming innocent girls into bloodsucking bacchae through his fiendish blood-wine. Gabrielle is turned into a temporary bacchae, and sucks on Xena's neck. There are entire segments of the episode that are just a dance club with sinister hip-hop/techno music playing.
"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" has a lesbian subtext. According to The Audience Studies Reader by Will Brooker and Deborah Jermyn, while in some episodes a lesbian subtext is implied, in "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" the lesbianism is so strongly suggested that it could be considered "maintext". Andrew Leonard of Salon described the episode as the "disco lesbian vampire" episode and stated that it provided "tacit consent to a lesbian reading of the Xena-Gabrielle relationship."
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edited October 2020
Is Salute Your Shorts streaming anywhete?
I want to watch the scary plumber episode for Halloween.
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
the word is "streaming" now get it right or pay the price
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-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
yeah most modern cable boxes double as streaming devices anyway, so the major (and some minor) streaming services have apps on it
i use my comcast box to subscribe to brown sugar, for example
Personally, I just don't watch nearly as much tv as most people here, so I have to consider my cost/benefit scenarios. This isn't a ding on netflix, it's more that I think the netflix content is not copacetic with my viewing habits. I have Prime anyway because it ties into other stuff, and I don't do rewatches or nostalgia tv very much. So what I'm looking for in an additional streaming service is at least 3-4 high value prestige productions per year that I can't get elsewhere, which is probably more akin to the HBO lineup.
My current netflix list has like ... two ongoing things I'm actually keen on watching (as opposed to just curious about), both of which I can get elsewhere, and a couple of cancelled shows. And Grand Designs.
But like I said this is just an assessment of "Ok for me, personally, is this worth $15 a month?" and realising that actually it probably isn't. If I was in Australia I'd be thinking differently because the lineup is different there, and you can't access eg. hulu, or a bunch of Prime stuff for that matter.
I'm having trouble seeing how this is a change for the better for me, given how wide of an audience they have to appeal to meaning 99%+ of their originals range from disinterest, garbage, or outright offensive and making me rethink giving them money at all. Sure, it should mean they'll get another thing out for me again slightly more often, but that feels like pretty poor calculus as a subscriber.
you know how a bunch of animals keep evolving into crabs?
it's like that
Every year at Christmas we watch the Vicar of Dibley Christmas specials. They are good.
Ooooh. I vaguely thought it was a joke about late-night programming with cusses in it, and it wasn't really clicking for me.
Steam
You could get a year of Shudder today for the cost of slightly under four months of Netflix standard
Steam
I just don't see it.
Right, the guy who 88 on his face.
And also like, 17 other Nazi tattoos visible.
The only one I remember is the one where she goes to everyone's Christmas dinners and can't refuse food and ends up riding home in the bucket of a front end loader.
Just finished "Fortune and Men's Weight"
I thought it near the end of the first season, but I feel wholly confident declaring that I don't think Sam & Diane are a good couple.
Break up! Please, for the sake of everyone, break up and stay broken up!
There is also the one where they stage the living nativity and it goes wrong a bunch of ways but also okay and the one where they try to come up with the Christmas Carol.
That is a really good all-ages animated show.
Steam
Is this your first time Cheers?
what I like about this show is that it is not a game show despite having many of the trappings of a gameshow
so it has points and games but it is allowed to be unfair when being unfair is the funniest thing that can happen, and, importantly, everyone on the show understands and accepts this
The best parts of taskmaster are when people try to cheat without abandon for the cameras surrounding them
It is! Yes!
NEVER MIND, I JUST GOT TO EPISODE 8 AND THIS SHOW RULES
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there are many good episodes of supernatural, but you picked the best one if you're only ever gonna watch just one
Xena and Gabrielle join forces with Joxer and Orpheus to defeat Bacchus (portrayed akin to Tim Curry's Satan in Legend), who is transforming innocent girls into bloodsucking bacchae through his fiendish blood-wine. Gabrielle is turned into a temporary bacchae, and sucks on Xena's neck. There are entire segments of the episode that are just a dance club with sinister hip-hop/techno music playing.
As to its thematic nature...
I want to watch the scary plumber episode for Halloween.