Posted on 02/11/2024 4:23:46 PM PST by Rummyfan
A young woman I know broke it off with a young man after three dates but declared that it was a pretty successful relationship anyway. "He showed me a couple of great Amazon Prime series," she told me. "And he turned me on to Derry Girls."
Derry Girls, for the record, is a British comedy set in Northern Ireland in the 1990s and it’s hilarious. But there are more than 600 scripted television series currently on the constellation of streaming services competing for your credit card number, so if you don’t go on a dedicated search for that specific title, you’ll probably miss it. And that’s one reason there’s a new category of first-date small talk: What are you watching? is the new What’s your sign?
Watching TV has never been so baffling. You don’t just walk in the house and flop down in front of the TV and start flipping around anymore. Watching television in 2024 requires what psychologists and self-help gurus call intentionality. You have to know what you’re looking for and exactly where to find it, which means the entire process usually starts with a Google search. We’re all familiar with today’s Television Catechism. It goes: What was that show we wanted to see, again? Followed by: Which one of the thingy’s is it on? And ends in an exasperated: Do we even get that one?
If you’re at my house, the Anglo-Saxon vulgarism for sexual intercourse is inserted before the words "show," "see," "on," "get," and "one" in the above. It’s also possible you will find yourself re-inputting a forgotten password, which will inspire more profanity.
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It's like dating now. In the old days all you needed was a number. Now you need the right app too! Aagh!
BTW, Derry Girls is hilarious.
Flipping between channels, dodging yet-another homosexual outburst.
This was easily solved. I gave up watching TV.
Not really worth the effort anymore, TBH. Easier to grab a book and read.
What do you mean silo’d off?
I agree.
Also, my 'On Demand' advertises free stuff. But then requires you subscribe for a fee to get what you clicked on. No thank you.
I can successfully watch YouTube.
I’ve made several recent attempts to watch TV, and I just can’t figure it out. I may never try again.
Sometimes after dinner, hubby will say “let’s watch a show!” Taking into account his ADHD, I zero in on comedies or action movies. I go through the trending or new section trying to find something good that also isn’t woke on Netflix. Since it’s rare to find anything that fits the bill, I then turn to Amazon, Hulu, Max, and Apple and follow the same procedure as above. By the time I find something, half an hour has passed…and hubby is asleep on the couch. Happens every single time, lol.
They’ve become too specialized where, if I watched tv, would have to purchase 10 channels in order to watch the types of shows I like to watch. That’s like $200/month for 20 hours of tv.
The should go back to simpler choices, like A&E and Science Fiction and Crime channel and leave things be.
LOL indeed. What’s really depressing? I go to ‘On Demand’ for free movies. There are 4000 or so listed. I can’t find a single one I want to watch!
Television in most iterations is mind-numbing, boring, and pointless.
For example, say you are a paying customer with Amazon and Netflix applications. There is not one way to see all the content together in one menu system.
Add in other Smart TV apps such as Pluto, Roku, Apple, Disney, Fubo, Paramount, Peacock, etc. and the amount of choices in content as well as individual applications, menus, decisions, is overwhelming. I believe this is because we do not have a consistent user experience by design.
That’s frustrating as well. I think it’s done on purpose to generate revenue.
It’s not so difficult. Just get adept and ruthless at cancelling services and restarting them for a month or so to binge watch whatever series.
A password manager helps enormously.
To me, it looks like Amazon is going to dropped now that the yearly fee I paid gets me commercials. Hulu - going by the wayside. Netflix - dropped it years ago. Apple+ - never tried it but have some money sitting around on my Apple account in case there is something I want to watch. Youtube Premium - pretty nice to watch without ads. Disney+ - signed up for a month to watch the Beatles Get Back. Sign up, use it, drop it.
And so forth.
Also, you can watch trailers or clips on youtube or rumble to make a watch list. I’m gonna burn a few dollars watching “Friends of Eddie Coyle” which only seems to be available on Apple +
DVDs are cheap at thrift store or free at library.
Oh, I’ve got hundreds of DVDs and BluRays. But sometimes I like to browse too.
Watching TV?
What’s that?
I hearken back to the days of TV Guide.
I watch Youtube videos and local weather and that is it. I never turn on a TV. My lovely wife will watch once in a while after I am asleep.
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