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I honestly can never understand people who say there is not enough good content on streamers. Every single service I have subscribed to has way more content tha

I honestly can never understand people who say there is not enough good content on streamers. Every single service I have subscribed to has way more content that I want to watch than time I have to watch it. I watch maybe an hour a night, and I have a huge backlog of shows I’d like to watch that I slowly work through. Even my current list will take me years, and I have new shows to add all the time. Are these people who complain about not enough content watching 10 hours a day? Or just have very narrow desires about what they want to watch?

soco 3y ago
I'm probably in the narrow desires bunch and although with a sizeable backlog, most of it is not on Netflix/Prime/Disney and damn if I will subscribe another one. The current plan is to drop Netflix as it kinda dried out on my interests, and work on those others in parallel with pirated streaming or torrents. And still I only get one hour every second day or even less.
CivBase 3y ago
There's plenty to watch. Just not much I consider worth my time. I can count on my fingers the number of movies and TV shows from the last couple years I was interested in. So why should I pay an arm and a leg for it? I could own physical copies of the material I care about for as much as they want me to pay in streaming subscriptions.
- cortesoft 3y ago
  This seems different than the other takes, though. It sounds like you just don’t want to watch much tv, so it makes sense that you don’t want to pay for a streaming service. My main issue is with people who seem to imply there is a ton of great content out there but it just isn’t on streaming services. That had not been my experience.
eadmund 3y ago
> I honestly can never understand people who say there is not enough good content on streamers. What is there that is worth watching? They don’t make anything good anymore: no Seinfeld, no Office, no Parks & Rec, no Castle, no Bones, no House. Everything new is terrible, often embarrassingly so. It’s as though sometime in the last decade all the talent and skill left media, and now we have corporations and people going through the motions but not actually producing anything worth watching.
- anon84873628 3y ago
  If you like those sitcoms then you would probably like stuff on Hulu: Animal Control, Abbot Elementary, Superstore, Only Murders, etc. You can also rewatch Always Sunny, ER, and a bunch more. (Oh and "Dave" which is new and brilliant). HBO's entire catalog is full of bangers, many of which I still haven't seen yet.
  - eadmund 3y ago
    Only Murders in the Building is indeed excellent. I never could get into Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I may give Animal Control a shot — your recommendation makes me think I should.

soco 3y ago

I'm probably in the narrow desires bunch and although with a sizeable backlog, most of it is not on Netflix/Prime/Disney and damn if I will subscribe another one. The current plan is to drop Netflix as it kinda dried out on my interests, and work on those others in parallel with pirated streaming or torrents. And still I only get one hour every second day or even less.

CivBase 3y ago

There's plenty to watch. Just not much I consider worth my time. I can count on my fingers the number of movies and TV shows from the last couple years I was interested in. So why should I pay an arm and a leg for it? I could own physical copies of the material I care about for as much as they want me to pay in streaming subscriptions.

cortesoft 3y ago
This seems different than the other takes, though. It sounds like you just don’t want to watch much tv, so it makes sense that you don’t want to pay for a streaming service. My main issue is with people who seem to imply there is a ton of great content out there but it just isn’t on streaming services. That had not been my experience.

eadmund 3y ago

> I honestly can never understand people who say there is not enough good content on streamers. What is there that is worth watching? They don’t make anything good anymore: no Seinfeld, no Office, no Parks & Rec, no Castle, no Bones, no House. Everything new is terrible, often embarrassingly so. It’s as though sometime in the last decade all the talent and skill left media, and now we have corporations and people going through the motions but not actually producing anything worth watching.

anon84873628 3y ago
If you like those sitcoms then you would probably like stuff on Hulu: Animal Control, Abbot Elementary, Superstore, Only Murders, etc. You can also rewatch Always Sunny, ER, and a bunch more. (Oh and "Dave" which is new and brilliant). HBO's entire catalog is full of bangers, many of which I still haven't seen yet.
- eadmund 3y ago
  Only Murders in the Building is indeed excellent. I never could get into Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I may give Animal Control a shot — your recommendation makes me think I should.