Pheebo has the IP rights to make a show based on the books, but Tubu has the rights to make a show based on the movies that were based on the books. Poob is making a show based off a fanfic written about the backstory of a character created for the movie that most people hated. All three shows have the same name and tell conflicting versions of events. The original author has disowned all of them on Flipster.
You could tell me that half of those are real streaming services that only exist in the USA and I’d believe you
those are real streaming services that only exist in the USA
You sound confident. I believe you.
Na only Weeno is. Gumpy is actually Canadian.
Hulu, Tubi, Pluto, and Roku are all real. I know that’s the joke, but for the non americans out there.
It’s weird, I barely watch any shows these days.
Everything just feels so over saturated and “checklisty”.
I’ll make an exception occasionally and there is stuff that grabs my attention, but most stuff just seems like “Tubu’s third fantasy show release of the year to hit the quota”…
I saw an article the other day talking about how poorly most shows from the past 5-10 years are performing compared to older shows. The top streamed shows are largely from the late 90s to early 2010s.
It truly feels like we’re in a quality rut right now.
I mean, that’s the problem you get when so much is readily archived. If whatever’s currently coming out sucks, there’s so much history to pull the greatest hits from that you can just…stop watching new content. For years. Possibly ever.
I think it’s the overstaturation and the nature of streaming. People used to watch scheduled shows and talk about them the next day. That’s not a thing anymore. Not to mention, entertainment is much more polarizing now that everyone has their own online echo-chamber.
I think it’s far more about nostalgia. Of course the same people who have watched the office 100 times over are going to watch it 100 times again. They aren’t looking to be entertained, they’re looking to veg out and not think (which I suppose to some is entertainment). NFL
Plus I can’t even think of a popular show in the past 10 years that had a meaningful conclusion. I don’t really watch a lot of TV so this could easily just be that I’m out of the loop, but it seems like a lot of endings are bad.
People used to listen to entire albums over and over again, each time getting new perspective on the music. And people re-read their favorite novels over and over again.
I think that’s what we’re doing with TV. We know what joke is coming, so we can watch other things in the background that we didn’t catch the first time.
At least that’s what I’ll tell myself on my fifth rewatch of SG1.
I can see the logic in that. Nothing wrong with rewatching something with new perspective you had compared to the first go around. I just know people who have watched the Office an obscene amount of times, and personally I just can’t do it. I thought the Office was really funny, but not watch it every day for 10 years funny. That’s just me, though - obviously different strokes for different folks.
Also, damn I haven’t seen SG1 since I was a wee lad. So many good SciFi shows back then, I think I might have to rewatch it myself.
Yeah, I’m wrapping up my annual-ish rewatch of South Park and definitely enjoying all the little background things I never picked up on previously, and also the random plot points that have new meaning based on events that occurred after they originally aired.
Plus I can’t even think of a popular show in the past 10 years that had a meaningful conclusion. I don’t really watch a lot of TV so this could easily just be that I’m out of the loop, but it seems like a lot of endings are bad.
Justified ended in 2015, Better Call Saul wrapped up in 2022. I think those two qualify as solid conclusions. It speaks to your point that I could only readily come up with two examples.
I have noticed shows and movies lately have been very choppy, almost like they’re trying to chain together a bunch of tiktoks and calling it a movie. The dialogue has also gotten pretty terrible, like AI is writing it. It doesn’t sound human.
It might just be because the public is now spread over so many services…
Are those morons trying to compare the numbers from years ago when you had like one or two nation wide channels with the modern landscape? And the one episode was announced like a week ahead and everybody would be tuning in to watch it at the same time. Now you stream an entire show at will.
It’s moronic to want to use the same metric as a measure of success when clearly the entire landscape has changed.
With streaming you can watch what you want and not the “ehh, there’s nothing else on” shows. Studios are still making those low effort, watch because you have to if you want to watch anything at all shows, and maybe it’s a feeling of not being in a target audience but they are mostly that these days. Maybe even more so than before, because the studios now don’t have a reasonable expectation that people are just gonna watch it because it is on.
They have a pseudo incentive to produce a higher amount of cheap lazy garbage to flood the market with something, anything, that might grab attention and become a hit, whereupon they might invest more into it. They’ve really been lowering the bar, over and over, and as the bar lowers more and more people aren’t stupid enough to follow along and just watch whatever. Why watch modern garbage when there are yesteryear classics that were made with passion, at least enough to veneer over the ever-present profit incentive.
Probably will be for at least another year or two. The creatives need time to cook and they took a huge unplanned hiatus last summer protecting their jobs
Not aided by an aversion to commitment. Netflix especially loves to cancel shows after one or two seasons… despite a decade of The Office being their bread and butter. They should be promising creators a budget directly correlated with some desirable metric. Your thing is what five million subscribers are obviously sticking around for? Here’s half the budget of last year, when it was ten. You can decide whether that’s enough to do another season. Oh it was? And it worked? And now it’s twenty million? Great, here’s a shitload of money, keep going.
For some reason Netflix seems to be more interested in new subscribers than keeping their current subscribers. Probably because a lot of users just keep the account once they get it, even if they don’t use it all that much.
My SO and I just watch the same shows on repeat (American Dad, Futurama, etc.)
The last popular show I tried was Wednesday. Holy shit it was so bad why did people like it? I dont really watch anything and haven’t for years, I only tried Wednesday as something to watch with my gothy (ex)gf and even she thought it was terrible.
If media companies want us to consume their products legally, they need to make a version of Prowlarr, but for legal streaming sites.
Except when you watch something it only links to some crappy streaming platform, where you still need a subscription to watch it. It does absolutely nothing to solve the issue of streaming platforms shrinking their libraries while at the same time increasing their prices. I would still need to subscribe to like 5 or 6 different services to watch all the stuff I like. No thanks, I’m gonna stay with piracy.
To be fair, all Prowlarr does is make searching multiple torrent sites easy. That’s basically what this site does.
Well, no one uses Prowlarr on its own. It’s obviously part of the *arr stack, which is basically always used with a BitTorrent client to download and organize the content.
All the media I care for is on Dropout or qBitTorrent
Shoutout to dropout, the only streaming platform I pay for
I was the change I want to be in the world and have made !dropout@lemmy.blahaj.zone, hopefully people use it 😅
What is Dropout? I’ve never heard of it before. Can anyone give me a quick tldr?
Dropout is made up of largely collegehumor’s ghost, including shows like Game Changer, (gameshow), Um, Actually (nerd questions gameshow) and a lot of DND roleplay content. They are primarily a comedy centric streaming service.
Ok thanks, that’s really interesting
Hell yeah, nice to see people mention dropout. Just finished rewatching misfits and magic. Great stuff all around.
You can get around all of this if you score yourself an invite to hereiswhereyougetallthetorrents.bananas
Personally I only use torrents to download all the linux distributions. I didn’t realise one can install sonarr, radarr and all the other *arrs to rapidly, easily download shows and films and make them available to a media server. Also I didn’t realise people can install lunarsea on their phones and remote control the whole thing so they literally just have to type a title and seconds later it appears in their media server. Personally I just use it to check out the many Linux distributions on the internet.
it’s actually called ‘Ploob’
My kid pronounces it “poop”
My arrrse can’t be bothered to check any of those when I have my own Nex server
Interdimensional Streaming
You get Blumbo for free if you are an AT&T customer. Flimmy is included with Xbox Game pass. Zapi is free if you use TurboTax.
As someone who says “AAAAARRRHHHHG,” I haven’t heard this in a while. As an artist, I believe in supporting artists, but if you don’t have the money, you shouldn’t have to pay. Eventually, if you have the money, you can donate.
This is like a plot line from “If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler “
And sometimes, as in the case of real world Philo, there’s no app on the PS5 so you can sign up for a free trial but maybe we just don’t like your device. Yarr
And if you change countries, everything you had on Pleeboo costs 2X as much now
Mark Maron bit
