But Is It on Netflix? - Streaming Video Service Thread: Hulu, Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Disney+, Peacock, YouTube TV, AT+T Watch, Philo, Playstation Vue, HBO Max, HBO Now, Facebook Live and many more

yeah i don't really mind that people post on this thread but spoilers are the main reason I stick to the dedicated ones - I can watch shows on other services I don't have access to through um, other means, but it takes more effort. like i didn't get around to watching "I May Destroy You" or "Succession" until many months after those shows first aired.

so it just kinda bums me out to open a thread and see dozens of posts about a show that i'm interested in but can't watch in real-time, so to speak.

off-topic I guess, but "I May Destroy You" (which we also didn't get to watch until some time after it launched) is so excellent.

it is!

I May Destroy You - Michaela Coel

yesss far and away the best show in recent memory

It's kinda weird they chose Pembroke as the name of the fake college in the show – b/c that name is associated with Brown, but the school doesn't seem to be particularly modeled on Brown.

lol yeah --. It's the name of the former women's college (sister school) that then merged with Brown when it went co-ed. The "Pembroke campus" is still referred to. One of the think pieces I skimmed before watching the show said that the fictional college was similar to an Ivy League school -- but it's really a composite of the numerous small liberal arts colleges, in terms of issues of declining enrollment and related budget issues. Whereas Brown (at least so the alumni magazine tells me) gets more competitive each year, and the current crop of students are way too good for my population trough born slacker ass.

What year were you, sarahell?

1996

chances seem pretty good we at least once knew each other IRL

netflix is in this thread title...

…in a phrase that specifically references that the programming on these services is not also on Netflix!

brb, gonna start a thread called “rob is a big dummy who smells, share stories of seeing him with toilet paper stuck to his shoe here” for ppl to wish you happy birthday in

#twothreads

I think only you're reading it that way.

i kinda thought this was the successor thread to the other netflix thread, but people post to both threads because that is how ilx threads end up functioning unless a thread gets locked.

"A thread to discuss the ongoing balkanization of streaming, cord-cutting, new options, lament and laud the coming and going of new competitors and so on."

so it wasn't really about content at all when it started...

there's also a dedicated Amazon prime video thread that bemoans the size of the Netflix thread. #threethreads

There’s also a Hulu thread. I liked having them all split, makes it easier to follow what people are talking about and how to find it

I also like the idea of having more threads, the two big ones get unwieldy. But it does get complicated that different services carry shows based on region. Also love show- specific threads when it makes sense

brb, gonna start a thread called “rob is a big dummy who smells, share stories of seeing him with toilet paper stuck to his shoe here” for ppl to wish you happy birthday in

― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, August 25, 2021 7:50 PM (yesterday)

lmao

I just meant that the fact the word Netflix precedes all the other services in the title—and it's not as unambiguous as "This Is Not a Netflix Thread" or the like—might be one reason people keep posting about Netflix itt

It's more like a thread called "did sic post that? relentless nitpicking poster thread: ergo, ibid, idem, semper, fidelis, capita, tyrannis, alia, and many more"

^this dunk deserves a reaction gif!

(that’s exactly how I’ve been reading the thread title, fwiw)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2oEmPP5dTM

new season of The Other Two starting strong, lost it several times during episode 2

oh snap

Thoughts on Apple's Mr. Corman? I've watched all five episodes to date, and I'm still not sure what its supposed to be doing. JGL is an earnest but show-offy director: nearly (maybe all? I don't remember) every episode so far has had some kind of whimsical reality-breaking sequence that just comes off like he's trying to hard. I've kept watching, though, so that's something.

tonight!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4TXUx2d9iQ

This thread seems useful but unwieldy. For instance two of the Redds are bingewatching something called Manifest and it is hard for me to catch up once they get started so I went into this thread to see if it was mentioned and did a Show All just to double check. And before I watched a few episodes of Physical on Apple TV+ and sort of liked it but didn't feel compelled to watch so I just did the same. Anyway...

Manifest seems to be one of those big fan pushes right now, they got Netflix to save the show for a final fourth season

Yes, exactly.

I’m in the middle of Never Have I Ever… is this the thread for that?

If you want it to be…if they let you.

Maybe it is like on ILB: new one-off book or author threads just don’t generate enough traffic, so there is always only ever the big rolling what are you reading now thread that is rolled once a quarter.

TV: The Thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xiRp9UntPs

For instance two of the Redds are bingewatching something called Manifest and it is hard for me to catch up once they get started

I watched the first fifteen minutes of the first episode of this and it seemed like absolutely by-the-numbers big-network dreck, does it get better?

This week on Reservation Dogs - special Letterkenny crossover episode! (Not really, but the actress who plays Tanis appears.)

Anyway, finished both seasons of Never Have I Ever… it’s terrific!

Did anyone watch 100 Foot Wave? We watched it and liked it a lot. It maybe could have been an episode shorter, but the footage is incredible. If you like surfing or just watching people risk their lives, it is good, terrifying stuff.

I watched the first fifteen minutes of the first episode of this and it seemed like absolutely by-the-numbers big-network dreck, does it get better?

Did anyone watch 100 Foot Wave? We watched it and liked it a lot. It maybe could have been an episode shorter, but the footage is incredible. If you like surfing or just watching people risk their lives, it is good, terrifying stuff.

Yeah, I liked it a lot. Agree that it was too long — a two-hour or even three-hour version might have been perfect. But the main dude is such a lunatic, it's worth spending the extra time getting into his head (and figuring out what the hell his wife/manager sees in him half the time). I would honestly like to know even more about the weirdo cult his mom raised him and his brother in.

yeah i loved 100 foot wave. one less ep woulda done the trick or yeah maybe dedicating that whole episode to the cult and his family dynamic and upbringing woulda filled another hour more effectively.

Anyway, I see that The Expanse has its own thread and is also mentioned on the Favorite TV thread by some of my trusted TV ILX0rs, especially Vegemite Girl so might have to give it a look see.

October Faction was kind of fun but ultimately meh

Sorry, bad styling: VegemiteGrrl.

still haven't watched the last season of The Expanse

I might try Happy Endings, but I heard that it might be better to start on the sixth episode -- good advice?

Hmm, can't remember, but one of the joys of that show is how squarely sitcommy - which is to say, square - it is, and even at its corniest and most conventional it's pretty funny.

I've been rewatching Happy Endings by chance. First season is actually a little better than I remember because it turns out the episodes were originally broadcast out of order. Not that this is a continuity-heavy serial, but the first season had more of a focus on Alex and Dave's breakup (makes sense since it's the title of the show and the pilot). You should watch the pilot, knowing the characters will get much better (especially Max, but all of them really.

The show takes a little bit of time to hit its stride - you would you just miss a couple of recurring characters getting introduced, like Derrick. They wring 90% of the sincerity out of the show by the end of the first season, to its massive benefit. Definitely one of my favorite sitcoms of the past decade, so I say give it a shot, knowing like many sitcoms it takes some tuning up before really getting great.

yeah i loved 100 foot wave. one less ep woulda done the trick or yeah maybe dedicating that whole episode to the cult and his family dynamic and upbringing woulda filled another hour more effectively.

The cult sounded insane!

One depressing thing was guys like Cotty having to scrounge for sponsorships and leave their families to chase these waves for what I expect is not great money for professional sports standards. They have to really be devoted to this to do this.

yeah i love that these guys dedicate their lives to a niche version of a niche sport that can only be done in like less than a handful of locations in the world. i enjoyed just trying to psychoanlize these surfers from my couch. loved the brother in law who could never quite make up his mind what he wanted to do in life and had all these passions come and go from one minute to the next... i felt that guy. cotty is great too, i thought he had a perfect fitting ending to the series.

i could see them doing another season in a few years, or at least a follow up.

They've announced a second season, but considering that it took them 10 years to have enough of a story for Season 1, I'm not really sold.

hah yeaah wow.

My wife I think was watching the first episode of 100 Foot Wave, and for the life of me I could not see why it had to be a season and a not a 2 hour doc.