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[Streaming Services] Cable Television for the Internet Age
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My favorite shows are scattered among all of them!
My cumulative streaming bill is almost as expensive as cable TV!
Who the fuck is actually watching Apple TV?
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The first four are around $58 a month. Hard to quantify the last since it just kinda showed up.
All in all, still much better than cable.
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So, $39 per month and that will drop once my wife finishes a couple of HBO shows and we cancel it until something else comes up. I'll add a channel through Amazon for $3-5 a month once in a while to watch something I can't find elsewhere and keep it long enough to burn through anything else that looks good. Overall things are way cheaper than they ever were with cable, and I can't keep up with everything I'd like to watch as it is so I'm very ok with missing things that remain exclusive to other services. I've heard enough good things that I'd like to watch Ted Lasso, but I have more than enough other stuff to watch that I'm just fine without it.
(I sponged off my girlfriend's Disney+ for Mandalorian, but that's the only show on there I care about.)
I just can’t justify keeping them all year round.
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This is so much more horrifying.
I guess maybe "Irredeemable asshole uses cult to coerce as many women as possible into sex" is less shocking?
Also Crunchyroll, which I will probably drop soon because anime is terrible and no one should watch it.
All said, I have way to much and would love to get rid of Netflix(it’s a slog for me to find something other than thing I’ve already watched or Horror which I don’t like), Disney+(Mando was only thing worth it so far and it’s coming up to a year old now), and maybe Hulu but it’s good for watching some series.
The really sad part is that the 5 year old is missing some shows due to how splintered Prime has gotten. PBS Kids, Nickelodeon, etc all charging for their handful of things. She will often come up and ask why she can’t watch something she’s watched before, due to it ending up on it’s own streaming service, which for kids is really a bunch of bullshit. There should be some option to bundle all the kids channels in one stream!
Don't forget to add in the cost of your internet connection.
People blew up Tiger King because of how unbelievably absurd the events covered were. It wasn't that viewers were horrified, it was more disbelief at how bizarre and convoluted the story of a tiger zoo owner vs a tiger sanctuary owner and activist got, with Joe Exotic as this brazenly outrageous buffoon. In short, Tiger King was an absurdist comedy that minimized talking about the abused tigers or Joe Exotic's racism so it could focus on things like "Joe obsessively fumes over and antagonizes Carole Baskins, Joe walks into the gift shop and bluntly announces to the customers somebody's arm just got bitten off, Joe gets into politics, Joe talks about his husband's testicles at said husband's funeral, Joe makes weird country music videos, etc."
In contrast, The Vow is focused on something super fucked up and hard to make memes about. I plan to watch it, but the most I've heard about it is "that one actress from Smallville was in a sex cult, how crazy is that?"
Anyway, I'm enjoying the show despite this, which is nice.
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Nah. Internet was a separate part of my budget that I had to pay in addition to cable for many years. It's basically essential, unlike cable/video services, and so remains separate for me now.
For reference, here's a scene from the final episode of Tiger King, after Joe Exotic was been sent to prison.
I both sincerely doubt anything like this is in The Vow, and also sincerely hope there's not.
EDIT: Apparently one of the other tiger zoo owners featured in Tiger King, "Doc" Bhagavan Antle, was just indicted yesterday on two felony wildlife trafficking charges.
Oh, huh, that's an interesting way of looking at it.
I always considered my TV / Internet bundle versus my Streaming / Internet cost, which is about the same.
Though I don't consider Shudder even a subscription, it's $70 a year to support Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy to do whatever they want.
This is what we do. Our "always on" trinity is Amazon, Netflix, and Hulu, and we optionally "turn on" CBS/HBO/Showtime/whatever is coming out next week to scoop up a series of shows for a month then immediately cancel it (e.g. in January, I'll turn on CBS to chew through Discovery and anything else that popped up then turn it right back off).
That said, I do miss casually flipping through a hundred channels, easy DVR access, and live TV. None of these 3 things is done well enough by any service for me to pay for right now, but I'll probably keep the cord cut anyway just out of spite for the shitty cable monopoly in my area.
Check out Pluto TV, ton of free channels to flip through.
The Great Pretender is an anime on Netflix - it is basically Leverage the TV show done in the style of Cowboy Bebop and I thought it was phenomenal. The animation is fantastic, the music is great, it's funny, it's just all around a very well done show. The end credits even uses Freddie Mercury.
Only the first two thirds of the series are out currently, but it's split up into "cases" and the current episodes are the first three cases, with the last third of the episodes being the fourth case. So you can watch what is currently available without being left hanging. And the last case should be released relatively soon, likely in about a month if the timing is similar to the first section.
PBS Kids has it's own app, and it is Free, highly recomend. My daughter loves Wild Kratts and it's how she sees every episode.
They have a Baywatch channel!
I've watched entirely too much Baywatch this summer.
Right now I'm mooching but I have access to hulu +live tv, disney+(from Verizon) netflix and prime. I've actually been kind of impressed with hulu live, but I do wonder what kind of cable/directv package you can get at that price. It's probably similar.
The guy doing the Scots accent was also pretty weak with his American in season 1. Not that I could tell he wasn't American, we generally have tin ears for accents around here, but it shows up in the acting. A bad American accent usually just makes an actor look stiff or dopey. It sounds right and looks wrong to me.
Speaking of sex cults...
They also have (had?) an american Gladiators channel.
Ya tiger king had some of everything. And I'm sure ill the catch the vow sometime, but I've heard the story a bunch of times on 20/20, dateline, stuff like that I was watching with my mom. I feel like I've heard most of the juicy bits and know the general jist.
Tiger king was just so out there, unique, and while I normally don't watch something with people I feel are horrible, I couldn't turn my eyes away. You'd think things wouldn't get worse or somebody couldn't get worse and yes, yes they can.
And about tiger sanctuaries? I didn't even know it was a big thing. There is one a half hour away from me I've thought about going to though
New, old, or both? I loved me some american gladiators
What?! That is amazing! I haven't watched that show since I was like 10. On second thought I now fear that only heartbreak can follow if I watch it at this point.
Edit pluto tv looks pretty dope. Wonder how bad the commercials will be. They have quite a few movies and tv shows.
Same! I think it has to do with how cheap life seems to be in that show. By the end, it almost feels like:
Gonna check out peacock after this movie.
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