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TV is pretty good even for my English sensibilities. Severance is some of the best television I’ve seen in a long time.

by tonyedgecombe 9mo ago

smt88 9mo ago
TV productions are a product, not a service. Apple TV is the service.
- shermantanktop 9mo ago
  Apple has a tv service and Apple also has exclusive content, which they brand with “Apple TV”…so it’s kind of both. Same for the other big streaming services. Some of them (Netflix, Prime Video) are more involved in content production, up to and including having production facilities and an in house staff. But a lot of the “exclusive” branded content is made by semi-independent production companies.
  - rootusrootus 9mo ago
    > Apple has a tv service and Apple also has exclusive content, which they brand with “Apple TV”… And of course the device itself. I wish they would have distinct names.
manuelabeledo 9mo ago
Commercials in TV+ are as bad as ads in News+, e.g. it seems I cannot open the app without getting blasted at with a Peacock commercial.
- MBCook 9mo ago
  What? I’ve never seen a single commercial on an Apple TV+ show.
  - eek2121 9mo ago
    Something like 70% of the comments I've seen on this thread show that either: 1) The user has never owned an Apple Device in their life. 2) They are trolling super hard. There are complaints to be had that I definitely agree with, however, I see a TON of fiction for every single legitimate complaint. No, not an Apple employee, shareholder, etc. (I am broke and dependent on my wife because I am disabled lol)
    - manuelabeledo 9mo ago
      I've been an Apple One subscriber for over three years now. For the past few months, as soon as you open the TV+ app, a Peacock ad starts playing really loud.
      - tonyedgecombe 9mo ago
        I’m wondering what platform you are using TV+ on.
        manuelabeledo 9mo ago
        An Apple TV.
        wookmaster 9mo ago
        So weird I don’t have anything like that on mine
        manuelabeledo 9mo ago
        Maybe you’re not an Apple TV+ subscriber, then.
        wookmaster 9mo ago
        I am
dlcarrier 9mo ago
Which makes it even more tragic that the few good streaming shows produced recently are all on a network no one watches. I am glad that they bought the rights to Brandon Sanderson's books, because I know Netflix wouldn't do them justice and Amazon prime would be far worse than that, but it also means that it will have a tenth of the available audience that a Netflix contract would have brought.
- tonyedgecombe 9mo ago
  If they were serving the mass market then they would be making trash like Netflix.
  - dlcarrier 9mo ago
    I'm not sure how causality works on that one. Netflix made great stuff, back when streaming was still a small market, then they got big and started making trash. It's not like they weren't trying to attract everyone when they were releasing content worth watching. Maybe it's because they didn't have any feedback yet on what works, so they couldn't even try to make safe bets, instead creating a little of everything, with most of it being bland, but a surprising portion being top-tier.
- chrisweekly 9mo ago
  Hmm, your comment resonates in principle [caring about quality production of worthwhile narratives], but your specific examples show how much YMMV when it comes to subjective preferences. I was so grateful that Amazon Prime somehow did justice to The Expanse [I highly recommend the novels, and feel the show was one of the best-ever translations of sci-fi to the screen] and could never get into the Wheel of Time book series [tho I guess that was Jordan, not Sanderson, shrug].
  - majormajor 9mo ago
    Amazon didn't start The Expanse as a TV show, though. They bought it after Sci-Fi ran it then cancelled it. They didn't screw it up after that, but that's a very different sequence from creating it themselves. Compare to their much-ballyhooed exercise in lighting money on fire that was their LOTR series.
rootusrootus 9mo ago
And Slow Horses, which is perhaps my favorite show in years. I'm not a big TV watcher, and this show got me to subscribe (at least for a while) to Apple TV.
- alsetmusic 9mo ago
  Try Pluribus. We just finished S01. Also pretty good. Calling AppleTV low quality doesn't fit. The rest, yeah. Pretty useless.

TV is pretty good even for my English sensibilities. Severance is some of the best television I’ve seen in a long time.

smt88 9mo ago

TV productions are a product, not a service. Apple TV is the service.

shermantanktop 9mo ago
Apple has a tv service and Apple also has exclusive content, which they brand with “Apple TV”…so it’s kind of both. Same for the other big streaming services. Some of them (Netflix, Prime Video) are more involved in content production, up to and including having production facilities and an in house staff. But a lot of the “exclusive” branded content is made by semi-independent production companies.
- rootusrootus 9mo ago
  > Apple has a tv service and Apple also has exclusive content, which they brand with “Apple TV”… And of course the device itself. I wish they would have distinct names.

manuelabeledo 9mo ago

Commercials in TV+ are as bad as ads in News+, e.g. it seems I cannot open the app without getting blasted at with a Peacock commercial.

MBCook 9mo ago
What? I’ve never seen a single commercial on an Apple TV+ show.
- eek2121 9mo ago
  Something like 70% of the comments I've seen on this thread show that either: 1) The user has never owned an Apple Device in their life. 2) They are trolling super hard. There are complaints to be had that I definitely agree with, however, I see a TON of fiction for every single legitimate complaint. No, not an Apple employee, shareholder, etc. (I am broke and dependent on my wife because I am disabled lol)
  - manuelabeledo 9mo ago
    I've been an Apple One subscriber for over three years now. For the past few months, as soon as you open the TV+ app, a Peacock ad starts playing really loud.
    - tonyedgecombe 9mo ago
      I’m wondering what platform you are using TV+ on.
      - manuelabeledo 9mo ago
        An Apple TV.
        wookmaster 9mo ago
        So weird I don’t have anything like that on mine
        manuelabeledo 9mo ago
        Maybe you’re not an Apple TV+ subscriber, then.
        wookmaster 9mo ago
        I am

dlcarrier 9mo ago

Which makes it even more tragic that the few good streaming shows produced recently are all on a network no one watches. I am glad that they bought the rights to Brandon Sanderson's books, because I know Netflix wouldn't do them justice and Amazon prime would be far worse than that, but it also means that it will have a tenth of the available audience that a Netflix contract would have brought.

tonyedgecombe 9mo ago
If they were serving the mass market then they would be making trash like Netflix.
- dlcarrier 9mo ago
  I'm not sure how causality works on that one. Netflix made great stuff, back when streaming was still a small market, then they got big and started making trash. It's not like they weren't trying to attract everyone when they were releasing content worth watching. Maybe it's because they didn't have any feedback yet on what works, so they couldn't even try to make safe bets, instead creating a little of everything, with most of it being bland, but a surprising portion being top-tier.
chrisweekly 9mo ago
Hmm, your comment resonates in principle [caring about quality production of worthwhile narratives], but your specific examples show how much YMMV when it comes to subjective preferences. I was so grateful that Amazon Prime somehow did justice to The Expanse [I highly recommend the novels, and feel the show was one of the best-ever translations of sci-fi to the screen] and could never get into the Wheel of Time book series [tho I guess that was Jordan, not Sanderson, shrug].
- majormajor 9mo ago
  Amazon didn't start The Expanse as a TV show, though. They bought it after Sci-Fi ran it then cancelled it. They didn't screw it up after that, but that's a very different sequence from creating it themselves. Compare to their much-ballyhooed exercise in lighting money on fire that was their LOTR series.

rootusrootus 9mo ago

And Slow Horses, which is perhaps my favorite show in years. I'm not a big TV watcher, and this show got me to subscribe (at least for a while) to Apple TV.

alsetmusic 9mo ago
Try Pluribus. We just finished S01. Also pretty good. Calling AppleTV low quality doesn't fit. The rest, yeah. Pretty useless.