# How can I watch past episodes of a TV show? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 27, 2013, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-watch-past-episodes-of-a-tv-show/651534 "2013-02-27T17:32:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-watch-past-episodes-of-a-tv-show/651534/1 "2013-02-27T17:32:41Z")
_Two and a Half Men_, more specifically? I’m interested in the episodes that ran in December and January. I can’t find them on YouTube. Hulu has them, but they are just links to the CBS website. CBS has only the last 4 episodes. Same with Comcast. Netflix doesn’t have any of the series streaming. Will I just have to look out for the reruns? ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-watch-past-episodes-of-a-tv-show/651534/2 "2013-02-27T17:36:57Z")
Try Hulu and Hulu Plus, Vudu and Amazon Video. They are, in order, free; $7 a month; and $2-3 per episode. We watch all current shows on Vudu these days. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-watch-past-episodes-of-a-tv-show/651534/3 "2013-02-27T17:42:22Z")
OK, they’re on Amazon Videos, at 2 bucks each. Kind of a lot, but at least it’s a way to see them. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-watch-past-episodes-of-a-tv-show/651534/4 "2013-02-27T17:49:09Z")
It can be a lot if you’re paying for them on top of all other options. But the serial show market has fragmented into current-run, immediate rerun on Comcast On-Demand and the like, selective rerun on the channel’s website, eventual DVD/streaming from Netflix… and that middle ground of current but not in available reruns of paying for them on Amazon or Vudu. We dropped cable at around $75 a month and now pay $15 fixed (Netflix plus Vudu Plus) and maybe $15-20 a month in TV episodes and movies from Vudu. Only part of the latter is actually new cost, so our net bill for video dropped around $60 a month, and with a Roku, we didn’t lose much in the way of current channels. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-watch-past-episodes-of-a-tv-show/651534/5 "2013-02-27T18:26:39Z")
[This site](http://www.tv.com/shows/two-and-a-half-men/watch/) seems to confirm there are no free sources right now. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-watch-past-episodes-of-a-tv-show/651534/6 "2013-02-27T18:31:00Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > [This site](http://www.tv.com/shows/two-and-a-half-men/watch/) seems to confirm there are no free sources right now. True for many shows. What I didn’t add to my above comment is that the revenue stream from Vudu/Amazon appears to have driven large numbers of reruns off of free and even bundled (Netflix) services. It’s jest like free money, I guess… ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-watch-past-episodes-of-a-tv-show/651534/7 "2013-02-27T18:58:57Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > [This site](http://www.tv.com/shows/two-and-a-half-men/watch/) seems to confirm there are no free sources right now. Yeah, it has clips from a few episodes that I want, but not full episodes. ☹