Murdoch Mysteries are on Hulu.
Final season of Cobra Kai starts today on Netflix.
I’ve been watching the animated show Exploding Kittens on Netflix (about God and Satan in cat form on Earth). It has its moments, but there are a lot of lame jokes along the lines of “The devil invented Nickelback/Carrot Top/Arby’s/other thing I want to crap on!” I find that kind of comedy gets tired pretty fast, especially if there’s nothing to it other than a throwaway comment.
Yes. Sorry. Trying to do 2 things at once.
Yet another reason for us to consider cancelling one of our services and getting Hulu!
What I always liked about Hulu is that you can suspend your subscription any time you want and reactivate it months down the road if there’s something you want to watch. I think Netflix is now offering that same option.
We’ll look into that. Because right now we feel in a bit of a slump in terms of what is available that we want to watch on our current services (Netflix/Prime/Paramount).
I’m not seeing the suspend option on Netflix, so either they don’t offer it, or they’ve made it difficult to find.
Likely you can just cancel it, and re-subscribe at any time. You might lose you want-to-watch list, but I suspect that’s easy to save offline.
Some services will offer you a discount for a month or two to stay with them (I had that happen recently when, trying to cancel the Discovery+ add-on to Sling, I accidentally tried to cancel Sling).
Other services make it quite easy to cancel / restart - e.g. we re-up Paramount Plus for a month or two whenever there’s a new Star Trek series.
With 3 services, I’ve given up trying to figure out how they present what on their home pages.
We don’t maintain any “want to watch” list. How would one use that? Do you spend a period just crusing through each service, seeing what might appeal to you, and designating it “want to watch”? I’m sure that’s a fine way to do things for folk who want to do that. But we tend to just ask, “What do we want to wantch TODAY?” If we find a series, we pretty much stick with it until it is over. Or, if only one or the other of us is watching a series, that comes up as “continue watching?”
We’ve toyed with going back to cable. It is more expensive, but we both found the Xfinity remote tremendously intuitive and easy to use. We made the mistake of going with Apple TV. I can’t imagine who finds THAT remote intuitive - or why they put that button (whatever it does) on the side where we accidentally press it. Well, suffice it to say I imagine it likely appeals to SOME people. Just not US.
Only through season thirteen. I think Acorn TV has through season seventeen.
It does. Though it’s mysteriously missing one Season 3 episode.
Watched S4-E1 of True Detective. Just. . .don’t.
Which is a critical detail if you want to see Geddy Lee guest star as Tom Sawyer.
5 episodes into The Consultant (Amazon Prime). Christoph Waltz is surely the greatest portrayer of villains in the 21st Century. Watching him chew the scenery is a delight. The story so far is hinting at the supernatural but I hope that’s just a red herring.
I remember it was fun watching him do his thing, but the ending was kind of a damp squib (I think…I barely even remember the ending).
Sometimes. Or often if I hear about a series that’s getting a lot of buzz, or otherwise learn about a new series that sounds appealing to me, but I don’t have time to watch it right now (I usually like to finish whatever series I’m currently watching before I start something new), I go and add it to my list for that streaming service. Then when I’m looking for something new to watch I’ll go back and look and look at what I’ve added to my lists on each streaming service, and pick something from one of them. I pretty much always find something I feel like watching there.
The only annoying thing is that if you subscribe to multiple streaming services you end up with separate lists for each service, rather than one consolidated list. There’s pretty much no way I know of to have one big list short of maintaining a spreadsheet manually or something like that.
Just finished it on the strength of the recommendations here. A fun show! Not complaints, really but
I appreciate color blind casting in historical fantasies, but it does get a bit dicey when you have a character for whom color DOES matter. Oh he actually IS black.
Also Nell couldn’t have made some request about societal reform. That torture of Jacobites and kids is under Anne’s authority. Better no war but defending the toff social structure by saving the queen was not the reason for Billy, I thought.
Also hope for another season and enjoyed the sisters’ dynamics.
This is weird, I can see your spoiler tags, and they look correct, and yet it’s not showing up as a spoiler blur for me.
I see my mistake. Needed a line return. Flagging.
Spoiler tags fixed.
I’ve been wanting to watch this based on recommendations both here and elsewhere, but didn’t want to sign up for another streaming service. But Amazon had a Prime Day deal for 2 months of Acorn for 99 cents per month. So I signed up for that just to binge Happy Valley, and will hopefully finish before the trial period is up.
I just watched the first two episodes of Season 1 last weekend, and it is off to a good start.