# What was the first show you watched entirely via streaming? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** disney-hulu, tv-shows-scripted, netflix\ **Created:** [August 10, 2021, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-show-you-watched-entirely-via-streaming/948389 "2021-08-10T16:59:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-show-you-watched-entirely-via-streaming/948389/1 "2021-08-10T16:59:22Z")
I’m pretty sure for me it was _Eureka_. It was circa 2010. I’d just gotten a new smart TV, and my family came to visit for Christmas. My sister logged into her Netflix account on my TV, and never logged out\*. This was back before they had their own original shows, just a collection of shows that had previously aired elsewhere, where you could watch shows you missed when they first aired or rewatch old favorites. I decided to check out what they had available, noticed they had Eureka, a show I heard positive things about but never watched on cable. I didn’t binge watch it, but ended up making a habit of watching an episode every weekend, until I’d gotten through all of them. \*I have since gotten my own Netflix account that I pay for. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-show-you-watched-entirely-via-streaming/948389/2 "2021-08-10T17:04:27Z")
Probably the first season of House of Cards. If you want a whole show, Breaking Bad. (I never finished House of Cards, and anyways I finished Breaking Bad before the latter HoC seasons came out) ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-show-you-watched-entirely-via-streaming/948389/3 "2021-08-10T17:20:04Z")
Hmmm. If you mean watch the entire run regardless of age, that would be the original _Twilight Zone_. If you meant exclusively streaming, _Longmire_. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-show-you-watched-entirely-via-streaming/948389/4 "2021-08-10T17:22:04Z")
_House of Cards_. It was the reason we got Netflix; my wife was a big Kevin Spacey fan in those days. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-show-you-watched-entirely-via-streaming/948389/5 "2021-08-10T17:23:34Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > If you meant exclusively streaming, _Longmire_ . In case it wasn’t clear, I meant exclusively steaming. In other words, you only watched the show via streaming; you never watched it when it aired on TV (if it ever aired on TV). If you ever saw _The Twilight Zone_ on TV before you watched it on Netflix, it doesn’t count. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-show-you-watched-entirely-via-streaming/948389/6 "2021-08-10T22:15:46Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > In case it wasn’t clear, I meant exclusively steaming. In other words, you only watched the show via streaming; you never watched it when it aired on TV I’m not sure how to answer the question. The only non-sports TV shows I’ve watched in the past 20 years have been on DVD. That’s how I caught Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, The Wire, Mad Men, The Sopranos, etc. However, when watching the Olympics I saw and ad for a show called “Dr. Death” on a channel called Peacock. I used my TV remote to watch all 8 (?) episodes and enjoyed it very much. Was that streaming? I watched it on my TV set. I guess it was, since I ordered it on demand and not live first aired. So I guess that’s my answer. The one and only show I’ve watched streaming is “Dr. Death.” ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-show-you-watched-entirely-via-streaming/948389/7 "2021-08-10T22:39:06Z")
My one and only is The Mandalorian. I don’t have any streaming services, but a friend does, and wanted someone to binge-watch with, since he’d heard it was a good show (it is). We’ve now finished the first two seasons, and will presumably do the same with the next season once it comes out. Not streaming, but before that, I had a Netflix subscription for a while, back when it was primarily based on sending DVDs through the mail. I watched all of Avatar: the Last Airbender and Farscape that way, and the first two seasons of The Big Bang Theory. I’ve never seen a full episode of any of those broadcast or in any other way. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-show-you-watched-entirely-via-streaming/948389/8 "2021-08-10T22:47:38Z")
_The Mandalorian_, for me, when it first premiered on Disney+ in late 2019. Since then, I’ve watched several other series on Disney+ (_WandaVision_, _The Falcon and the Winter Soldier_, and _Loki_), and _The Expanse_ on Amazon Prime (I had not watched it when its first few seasons were on SyFy). ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-show-you-watched-entirely-via-streaming/948389/9 "2021-08-10T23:04:37Z")
It’s hard to remember. There were a number of series that I started out renting the DVDs for and finished up later seasons when I got Netflix, my first streaming service. I didn’t get NF until I moved to my current house in 2015 and got fast internet. Maybe **Westworld** (I have since added HBO and Hulu) It was one of the first series that I streamed that I’m sure I hadn’t started on DVDs. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-show-you-watched-entirely-via-streaming/948389/10 "2021-08-11T01:11:23Z")
> [@divemaster](#): > > However, when watching the Olympics I saw and ad for a show called “Dr. Death” on a channel called Peacock. I used my TV remote to watch all 8 (?) episodes and enjoyed it very much. Was that streaming? Yes, Boomer, you were streaming. (Ha, sorry, couldn’t resist… I’m probably older than you!). As a Boomer myself, I suggested to my (Millennial) daughter that we install this new “app” thing called _Netflix_ and watch the pilot episodes of a dozen shows that we’d heard good things about. We’d take turns picking a show until she had to go back to school… Well, that didn’t work. Our first try was _Arrested Development,_ and we both loved it, and binged the first season. It felt like cheating to not have to wait a week to see what happens next… ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-show-you-watched-entirely-via-streaming/948389/11 "2021-08-11T01:18:57Z")
I’m not sure, but…maybe Netflix’s _Daredevil_? At that point, I still had cable, and pretty much just watched series in their first run, and there weren’t that many streaming originals yet. ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-show-you-watched-entirely-via-streaming/948389/12 "2021-08-11T01:26:19Z")
Does _Bravest Warriors_ count as streaming? It started as a webseries on the Cartoon Hangover YouTube channel, then got picked up by VRV for the last two seasons. If not, then the first season of _Infinity Train_ on the Cartoon Network website. It later moved to HBO Max, so I haven’t seen any subsequent seasons. If neither of those count, then _The Mandolorian_ on Disney+ ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-show-you-watched-entirely-via-streaming/948389/13 "2021-08-11T12:41:35Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > My one and only is The Mandalorian. Actually, I should maybe correct myself, here: I also watched all of Masters of the Universe: Revelation with a different friend. But that’s only five half-hour episodes (so far), so it hardly seems fair to call it “a series”. About as much as a single movie. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-show-you-watched-entirely-via-streaming/948389/14 "2021-08-11T12:47:17Z")
_Doom Patrol_, followed right after by _Titans_. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-show-you-watched-entirely-via-streaming/948389/15 "2021-08-11T14:55:33Z")
I’m pretty sure it was Mad Men. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-show-you-watched-entirely-via-streaming/948389/16 "2021-08-11T14:58:15Z")
Broadchurch. Infinitely superior to its feeble American knockoff Gracepoint. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-show-you-watched-entirely-via-streaming/948389/17 "2021-08-11T15:10:57Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > I’m pretty sure it was Mad Men. Oh crap, I never finished Mad Men, but I think I did stream it before House of Cards. And I’d never seen it on TV proper beforehand. I also streamed Psych all the way through before HOC but I’d already watched many episodes sporadically on TV. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-show-you-watched-entirely-via-streaming/948389/18 "2021-08-11T15:16:18Z")
You know, now that I’m really thinking about it, it seems absolutely insane that just 7 years ago I was barely streaming anything at all. Now I don’t watch anything that ISN’T streamed. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-show-you-watched-entirely-via-streaming/948389/19 "2021-08-11T16:45:12Z")
Transparent on Amazon Prime in 2014. I was recovering from surgery and got Prime just to watch this show. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-show-you-watched-entirely-via-streaming/948389/20 "2021-08-11T17:53:42Z")
I just remembered _Grace and Frankie_, on Netflix. I think I’ve not seen every episode, but I watched it exclusively streaming, and it was before I watched _The Mandalorian._ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-show-you-watched-entirely-via-streaming/948389.md?page=2)