No, this is the reduced commercial version. Where the breaks normally come, we get 30 second, 45 second or 1 minute breaks instead of the 2.5 minute break every time. It’s not bad for $20 for 12 months. But it isn’t commercial free.
I would guess a “hour long” show has 6 breaks for a total of around 4.5 minutes of commercials.
Googling, there is a ten-dollar per month option for Peacock that’s supposed to be commercial free.
That is correct.
Hitmen : British sitcom starring Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc, probably best known in America as the former hosts of the Great British Baking Show.
A work sitcom of sorts. Kind of a one joke show, but it’s a good joke: the two of them work as underworld assassins, but otherwise behave as if it was just a normal job. Only twelve episodes across two seasons so you can watch the entire thing in an afternoon.
I use ad blockers and never have an issue.
Thanks. That may be a deal breaker for me but not my wife. At $20 a year you really can’t go wrong. I’ll keep an eye here for recommendations.
We watch on tv, so that won’t work, I think. I’m a little surprised it works on anything. Do you just get a blank minute or does it skip right over commercials? @What_Exit , I don’t know if this is over the line talk, if so can you just edit out my reply? Thanks.
That’s a good list. I’ve watched and enjoyed most of those shows.
Rutherford Falls is pretty good, if you’re not familiar with it. Ed Helms is in it and a lot of new people. A lot of it focuses on modern Native American life and I find that interesting because it’s not something I’m regularly exposed to (other than on Res. Dogs and Letterkenny).
I watched Everybody Hates Chris and loved it when it was on.
I re-watched 3rd Rock From The Sun some years ago, not really having watched it on its original run, and that show is HILARIOUS. And it holds up. It’s a very under-rated sitcom.
It took me a while to warm up to Superstore but I eventually fell in love. Now I can’t go in to Wal Mart without pretending I’m in the background of a sitcom about a super store.
The Angelyne mini-series is pretty good if you are already interested in the 80s billboard icon anyway or are a fan of PT Anderson’s LA based movies with a little Coen Brothers mixed in.
I never notice. It works smoothly. I only watch on my computer though so I don’t know about TV viewing.
Mrs. solost and I just signed up for the year deal, so I’m revisiting this thread for watching ideas.
We just finished the season. Agreed, great cast. It really took a weird left turn about halfway through though-- from a non-supernatural mystery about two young adults who disappeared on the resort during a hurricane 15 years before to introducing seemingly supernatural elements to a fully supernatural and nonsensical, not fully explained WTF ending. So what, exactly was Pasaje? Was it a magical place where you can visit dead relatives? Was is just a weird time anomaly spot where you can chill and lose 15 years in 5 minutes?
Were they hoping for a season 2, or is one even on the table, I wonder? Because it seemed like they introduced plot threads that went nowhere, like the crazy guy who owned the 2007 resort having those crazy visions and painting the mural of the island with an asteroid about to hit and the couple who wouldn’t visit until 2022. I’m guessing he visited Pasaje before and it got him unstuck in time or something, sorta like Billy Pilgrim.
Peacock has their $19.99 full year deal again.
In a few weeks, NBC will be broadcasting the Paris Olympics so I assume there will be lots of programming on Peacock.
So far Resident Alien season 3 is all they have for me, but with 12 more months I hope some other shows come up.
I’m a huge fan of Pecock, mostly because they have a lot of the classic cozy mystery shows. Murder She Wrote, Psych, Monk, and Columbo are all there. Those four are enough to make it worth it. Add in the various Law & Order series, the original Japanese Iron Chef, and many others and it’s the only must have streaming platform.
We really enjoyed The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning which isn’t at all morbid and quite interesting.
Very high recommendations for Poker Face with Natasha Lyonne. It’s a murder of the week show with a twist by Rian Johnson.
I really liked the Mr. Mercedes series, especially the first season. Also, Dr. Death, again particularly the first season was good, dark and somehow funny at times (probably because Christian Slater hams it up up a lot). If you like British stuff, The Vigil was good and gave me one of the most anxiety inducing scenes ever.
The main reason I have Peacock now is Top Chef and the horse races (I only have streaming, no cable) but they do usually add enough content throughout the year it is a bargain at that price.
We’ve watched a fair amount of since we got the twenty-buck deal. My younger kid likes to watch a dumb sitcom when she gets home from school, so she’s been working her way through Modern Family. My wife and I really loved Mrs. Davis, that very staid and slow and predictable show about a nun who fights a sinister AI. Brooklyn 99 is a treat, as is Rutherford Falls.
Mrs. Davis was a lot of fun.
Currently, we’re getting through the 3rd season of Resident Alien. Still very good.
I hope Poker Face returns in the next 12 months.
I forgot Resident Alien! That’s a show that’s basically carried by Alan Tudyk’s performance. His facial gyrations are like Jim Carrey, if Jim Carrey weren’t constantly annoying and also an anti-vaxxer. The other actors are quite good, but Tudyk really holds it together.
And I haven’t watched Poker Face yet, but I keep meaning to. Maybe it’ll be our next show.
Resident Alien: As each season goes by, some of the other characters become stand-outs. Especially the Sherriff and Deputy. They add a lot to the shows comedy.