Basically I’m trying to find out if I should keep my current services or, try something different. I’m mostly interested in current show suggestions.
The only thing I watch now is ‘Better Call Saul’.*
I don’t like ‘Game of Thrones’, so HBO means little to me - though I love ‘Last Week Tonight’, I can watch their big story on YouTube, though it still sucks that I can’t see all of it. I’m SO F’ing sick of Comic Book heroes these days… I know there’s one on Netflix that’s supposed to be good. I saw a show on Hulu at a friend’s place that originally airs on FXX that was called ‘You’re the Worst’, it was good, but I felt like the characters were TOO unlikable, so I’m ‘iffy’ if I’ll watch it again. I want to see ‘Transparent’, but I guess that’s on Amazon. Saw a few episodes of ‘Master of None’, which was ok. I also got a kick out of ‘W/ Bob and David’. Didn’t get into** ‘Orange is the New Black’**.
As much as I LOVED ‘Breaking Bad’, and ‘Better Call Saul’, I’m not usually into crime dramas. My favorite genre is Dramedy. 35 years of age. I’m also a Scorpio - if that helps.
I believe you can get Hulu for free, but I pay the highest of two premiums for more content and no commercials.
Hulu is a great product in my opinion. They pluck a good deal of current cable shows and host them on their site. And pretty much every mainstream show from the major networks are on there too.
And the advantage Hulu has over Netflix is that you don’t have to wait an entire season to watch the shows you are interested in. All shows are posted the day after the original air date.
I always recommend Misfits - I found the show immensely entertaining, and I don’t really understand why everyone wasn’t watching it. Quick synopsis - a bunch of petty criminal chavs living in The Estates in some UK city get superpowers in a freak storm, and hijinks ensue.
Oh yeah - these aren’t comicbook heroes. They try not to kill people too much, but shit happens, you know?
I know it’s kinda a crime drama (and kind of a dramedy) but if you liked Better Call Saul, I feel that Fargo (the tv show) is on par with that. I especially loved the first season. I think it’s on Hulu …
I quite liked Endgame on HULU. It was a Canadian series about a Russian chess master with agoraphobia and couldn’t leave his luxury hotel. He starts solving crimes using hotel staff and chess players as his eyes and ears outside like Nero Wolfe. It only lasted 13 episodes.
Dramedy is always a hard genre to pin down (for me anyway). But if you like shows with a good sense of humor dealing with situations you’d normally think of as pretty serious, I’d say iZombie and Limitless are worth checking out if you haven’t already.
If you liked Veronica Mars, iZombie (originally a comic) was adapted for TV by Rob Thomas, who created VM, and there’s a reference here or there to that show, and it has the same sort of wit to it. It’s had 2 seasons so far and has been picked up for a 3rd.
I never saw the movie Limitless, but loved the show. Especially the Ferris Bueller “parody” episode. You don’t see stuff like that in most CBS shows about a government agency solving crimes. It’s had one season, I don’t know if they’ve announced its fate yet.
I’m so over superhero movies & shows as well, but Netflix’s Jessica Jones is really damn good. It’s dark and gritty, and it has David Tennant as the villain. (Always a plus!) **Daredevil **is good too, though that does seem more superhero comic book-y than Jessica Jones.
I have Hulu and Netflix. We watch Hulu the most, seems to have more TV type shows. I may even get rid of Netflix at some point or exchange it for something else.
I recommend Deadbeat, on Hulu. It looks kind of stupid, but it’s really clever. (The quality drops for since episodes of Season 3, but you’ll want to start with the first episode of Season 1, anyway.)
I loved the first two seasons, but was so disappointed in season 3 I gave up after episode 4. Let me know if it’s worth finishing.
For dramedy leaning to sitcom (think MASH in tone) Grace and Frankie is one of my favorite shows on Netflix. Lilly Tomlin and Jane Fonda playing off the odd couple trope, but becoming unlikely roommates in their 70s because their husbands leave them for each other in episode 1. Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston play the husbands. It’s great.
I also loved Sense 8, but that might be a bit out of the OPs taste range. It’s SciFi, and too complicated to try to explain here. I would say give at least 4 episodes a shot before deciding if you like it. Things are explained slowly and it takes a few episodes for stuff to start to make sense enough that its compelling.
S1 and 2 work as a totally complete story. It’s very good and has a real ending and everything. In fact I might go so far as to say it had one of the most satisfying endings to a TV show I have ever seen. Season 3 is like fan fiction of what might have happened next. It’s pretty much a totally different show. Still, the first two seasons are very worth watching.