I’ve started watching The Lincoln Lawyer series. Episodes from Season 1 have all the curse words bleeped. Words like shit air on network tv now. But it’s bleeped by Amazon?
The dialog in this show is salty and adult. Shit,fuck muthafucker are said often and the bleeps are insulting and annoying.
There’s only one version of this show listed on Amazon. They don’t even offer a package deal for season 1. You have to buy each episode separately.
Now I’m suspicious violence and nudity may be censored too?
I see Amazon gives a episode rating. TV-MA It seems like that would allow profanity.
Btw I did just double check Ep 4. At the beginning the lawyer says hell and its heard. The cop says “What the Fuck are you hiding?”, the curse is muted and the cc shows F***.
Plenty of the Amazon Prime original shows have swearing so this must be it. Netflix may make their material availabe to others in bowdlerized form to encourage people to subscribe to the platform if they want it complete.
The first episode (only) is free to watch on Amazon Prime, so I watched it to see if it was censored for me. It is: there’s an f-bomb at 20:43 that is muted and shows as f****** in the closed captioning.
Well shut my mouth. Maybe it’s being offered on FreeVee, Amazon’s ad-supported streaming app? It sounds like the butchering that’s long been done to content on broadcast TV and basic cable.
There is a service called “Clearplay” that can filter videos from other streaming services, including Amazon, but I don’t think that’s something you could stumble into accidentally. It’s a subscription service you have to pay for in addition to whatever service it’s filtering. It does sound like the effect it would have is very similar to what OP is describing, though.