Subtitle: I gotta get more value out of my Roku.
Netflix has Hemlock Grove, and Arrested Development is on the way (squee). SyFy has Riese. Amazon has Alpha House, Onion News Empire and Zombieland. I’m sure there are plenty more, so I thought we could corral them here.
N.B. Riese is the only one I have watched, so I have no idea if any of these is any good.
A minor niitpick. Aren’t the Amazon and Netflix series only free in the sense that they’re available as part of their streaming video services, which cost about eight bucks a month?
Don’t forget House Of Cards.
If you’re a *Sopranos *fan, you’ll probably be slightly disappointed (but certainly not repulsed) by *Lilyhammer *on Netflix, a series about a mafioso (Steven Van Zandt) transplanted to Norway by the Witness Protection Program.
Add Blip.tv as a channel. Then, search for “RedLetterMedia” and start watching Half in the Bag episodes. It’s a movie review show and it is really good.
True for Netflix, but it looks to me like the Amazon stuff is free. I’ll turn on the Roku tonight and see.
It’s very different kind of show - much more of a comedy element. I think it’s been great so far.
Husbands is pretty funny. You can watch it on youtube or at husbandstheseries.com
A traditional sitcom about a gay couple. He’s a recently out pro-baseball player and the other he’s a flamboyant hollywood actor.
Jane Espenson (writer on Buffy and other tv shows), is one of the creators so a lot of Whedon regulars appear. Whedon himself plays the sports agent.
Isn’t **the Guild **an online only series as well, free on Youtube iirc.
Nope. Amazon stuff is only free if you have Amazon Prime, and then it’s only about 2/3 of the TV content and not very many movies that Netflix doesn’t have.
We have Netflix, Amazon Prime and HuluPlus right now along with all the other weird Roku channels. AP is only of value because it brought the full runs of both Stargate SG-1 and Fringe; I am not sure we’ll re-up for $80 next year.
HuluPlus is really hit-or-miss; it reminds me more of something cobbled together by the pirate video community than a commercial service. It has so many annoying inconsistencies it’s hard to rely on - f’rinstance, I did a quick search here at the desk and found it had season 4 of Warehouse 13. When we sat down to watch the last three or four episodes before the remaining half-seasons starts, it turned out the eps were only available on the web, not streaming boxes. If we don’t start watching more of the Criterion films, I will probably drop the Plus subscription as well.
Even with these three subscriptions and a couple of movies a week on Vudu, our video bill is about one-quarter of what it was with cable - and with MLB.tv we have vastly better baseball coverage than Comcast’s offerings.