You joke but Bling Empire is exactly the kind of moronic trash my wife loves. I can't tell you how much Kardashians, 90 Day Fiance, and Real Housewives I've endured.
I’m kinda with you at this point. I don’t even open the app anymore. I’ve been watching old 90/00s shows on Hulu. Like The Practice and Buffy. Lol they still hit.
i watched the first episode over the weekend. i think rich people are a culture cuz i couldn't even tell they were asian anymore. all rich people act the same.
david fincher was the executive producer and obviously he's a big movie director so mindhunters was always a side project to him. remember, it took almost 2 years to release season 2 after season 1 was done. fincher is still on movie projects with no season 3 production in sight so they released all of the actors from their contracts.
I finished Season 3 of Broadchurch yesterday, which really started pouring on the radical wokeness along with an absolutely absurd conclusion regarding the perpetrators. [SPOILERS] Trying to be vague but there is some detail necessary to explain The screenplay played out like an elderly church lady and radical feminist got together to write how they thought violent sex crimes originated. They tried to tie becoming a rapist to watching porn and all sorts of absurdities and made it seem like the distribution of porn was similar to the sales of narcotics getting it from a friend at school who got it from a degenerate older relative. So cringey. They really wanted to push the man oppressor/ women victim narrative, too. I noticed that every time they spoke the word "rape" in dialogue they practically shouted it. "A woman was RAPED!" They also had this crazy town-wide vigil that was well beyond the reaction to innocent children being murdered in previous seasons. I really wish I stopped watching at Season 2, as the first two were not like this.
Honestly, I just though the UK might be really adverse to porn. If not, that part of the show didn't make any sense. Season 3 was a little weird.
I just canned Netflix. I have usually been watching Netflix at an elderly relative's house when I check on her rather than at home on my own account, so I don't think I'll miss it much, and $18/ month isn't great value given I've barely watched it at home for the past few months. I plan to cancel Disney+ after the last episode of WandaVision. All I'll have remaining is Amazon Prime Video, which I've been pretty satisfied with to be honest with content like The Boys and The Expanse and has surprisingly become my favorite streaming service despite the atrocious user interface. HBO Max seems rather pricey at $15/ month when there isn't much I'd watch other than Zack Snyder's cut of the Justice League. Anyone have any suggestions for another service to supplement Amazon as my only streaming subscription. I'm considering CuriosityStream but have never tried it. I didn't like that 4K streaming costs over 3x more per month, but I've spotted a yearly rate for $70 per year, which would only be equivalent to $5.83/ month. I do not have much tolerance for commercials; I'm unusually averse to them, which eliminates some options. Has anyone tried Apple TV Plus? Do you think Amazon Prime Video and Curiosity Stream would be a decent combination?
I have the student apple music subscription which comes with apple tv+ for free. you're going to run across the same issue you have with all of the other streaming options. once you finish the stuff you are interested in, you won't need it anymore. the quality of the streams are top notch. I'll let you decide on what shows/movies are interesting to you. I would say at the end of the day, this is the beauty of the services vs a regular cable TV subscription and not an actual problem. you can consume everything at your own pace and cancel/resub as needed
I found a code online and got a year of 4K CuriosityStream for $51, which breaks down to $4.25/ month to replace the $18/ month I was spending on Netflix and rarely even watching it. Seems like a pretty fair deal.
How’s the content? There are also apps like Pluto which is basically shitty og tv with channels and ads. It’s alright when I just want to throw something on and vibe out. Pluto is free. Plex is decent as well. They have a Kung fu movie channel that gets a bit of screen time around my house. They also have a sort of home movie library service for your own videos (for instance, we take a GoPro on hikes quite a bit). Might not be as useful for you guys with computer towers as your home entertainment system. I use an Apple TV so it’s alright for that. Plex has a subscription but some mainstream movies and such.
I've only had CuriosityStream for a day, but most of my initial impressions are positive. The 4K content looks beautiful on my Vizio OLED. The CS app on the TV is easy to use, particularly compared to Amazon's convoluted mess of a UI, but some features are shockingly missing compared to using it with a web browser, such as not being able to see the user ratings. The user ratings are a very simple to understand percentage, such as 97% for a good show, but I have to look the damn thing up on a browser or presumably a phone to actually see them. Hopefully an update to the app fixes this so I'm not looking up stuff on a browser to find information about a documentary already open on the app on my TV. The documentary content has been very good, which is far and away my top priority. Lots of science and nature content as expected. There are some interesting looking space/ NASA documentaries I plan to check out, which hasn't had nearly the attention as when I was a kid prior to the Challenger disaster. There are also short documentaries that are maybe 9 to 10 minutes long, which are nice if I am not in the mood or don't have time to watch a 2-hour documentary or a 4-part series. It's very easy to fast forward, rewind, and whatnot. I think it saved my place when I accidentally exited something I was watching. The majority of stuff is in 1080p rather than 4K, which I expected from a growing service, but the basic HD stuff I watched still looked pretty good. At a little over $4 a month, I am impressed so far. EDIT: I figured out how to find the watchlist on the TV browser. It was hidden in the profile section with a very weird interface. I don't know why they designed it this way. I may check out Plex. I grew up watching Kung-Fu Theater on the weekends and am a fan of old kung-fun movies as you might have guessed from my current avatar pic, Chan Chi Pei from Fearless Hyena II, an old Jackie Chan movie. I got the impression that AppleTV Plus uses high resolution and advanced codecs and recruited some impressive talent for original content, but I've read there just isn't a ton of content to keep you watching currently. I'm still researching it to see if there is anything I might want to check out on a trial basis.
It sounds like what History, Discovery Channel, and TLC used to be 20+ years ago before they switched to pumping out reality TV garbage.
The code I used to get the 4K plan for a year for $51 was VECTOR. It's $10/ month if you go month to month, well over double the price. I'll have to see if I still feel like I have plenty to watch after a year or it starts to seem barren. I'm not sure how often they add new content. I'd take 1 high quality documentary over 50 Tiger Kings, though.
Avatar: The Last Airbender My daughter loves this show. I didn't see every epsidoe but that last season was pretty darn good.
Hell hath frozen over. The CW appears to have managed to create a high quality superhero series. Who would have guessed making a show that respects the characters of the comics instead of using it as a vehicle to cram full of social justice political virtue signaling like every other CW show could improve the quality dramatically? I hope this holds throughout the entire series and not just the pilot episode.
Resident Alien I went into this with low expectations and it’s actually pretty good. Which means the SyFy channel is definitely going to cancel it.
I finished Mindhunter. I can't believe there wont be a season 3. The show certainly isn't for everyone but the quaility was there. I wonder if they felt they were running out of material.