Cut the cord but probably watched more TV online without commercials. I hate commercials, except they do give you time to go to the bathroom, and hunt for snacks. Well, cost cutting measures by the person I was leeching off, no Netflix, no Amazon Prime. Down to Disney Plus and I've already seen Mandalorian and I can't get into WandaVision. Star Wars Rebels isn't bingeable to me, but I'm slowly chipping away at the cannon.
Someone mentioned My Boys on Twitter, and I remembered I loved that how. I love the ensemble romcom. I've spent time in Chicago. I like sports.
But it's on Crackle and I get commercials. Ugh. Now I know the Trulicity guy. Yikes.
I'm worried the meat commercials are going to challenge my veganism. I'm getting squeezed in more than entertainment, food is scarce. But if you believe in truth in advertising, the soughdough king only has one patty unlike the ad that has 2, and is 2 for $6 in NYC, not $5.
Another problem is that Crackle unframes the show every episode so you have to get up every 22 minutes, plus commercials to re-maximize the screen.
And in a 4 season show, they only have two seasons. You can't go off the show when a commercial is playing, on your computer, to a different tab, it stops. Crackle sucks, but if you don't have any other options it's OK for a few days.
Here's my satire of warnings for a medication:
Don't take if you'd put a car up your butt like Stevo in that one Jackass episode.
Don't take if your family is debating on whether to pull the plug on your life support machines.
Don't take if flaming diarrhea is a forest fire risk in a dry season.
Don't take if you have flop sweat on blind dates.
Don't take if you butt snaps.
Don't take if you have harry farts.
Don't take if you're wondering what the meaning of life is all about and you're questioning everything you once held sacred.
Don't take if you think the meaning of life is 42.
Don't take if you've unfriended someone on Facebook within the past 72 hours.
Don't take if you don't like the Star Wars movies or Star Trek, because they're straight up dope and you're just not a human being if you don't like that shit.
If you knees start bleeding for no reason, stop taking Trulicity immediately.
If you talk about butt sneezing hysterical deafness, unwelcome night running and dusty semen you watched too much New Girl and consult a doctor. Keep saying to yourself Mex Fox is not that hot.
May cause dizziness, sexual nightmares, and sleep crime if you're a Liz Lemon fan.
Tubi is another free service. I couldn't watch Grounded for Life, ended up watching Guys and Dolls. Fewer commercials.
Lexx is a weird show. The Wikipedia article says it's in the top 25 scifi shows, at 23, but the article is from a British Scifi magazine, and well, you know, they're British so their scifi standards are lower.
The commercials were more sophisticated science fiction than Lexx. Weird. Guess we know where production values go to.
I watched Ida (2013). Beautiful movie. It won best foreign film, and many other awards. It felt uneasy like the digging into the past of Poland about the Jews during WW2. The cinematography was amazing. Fascinating movie, I'll have to watch it over and over. I kind of wanted it to end at (spoiler) the funeral. Agata Kulesza is amazing as Wanda Gruz. Agata Trzebuchowska is wonderful as well.
Pluto TV has things going at all times. Lots of weird possibilities.
The Roku Channels have McLeod's Daughters which must be good because they did 8 seasons of it, 224 episodes and a telemovie.
IMDb TV looks good, maybe the best of the bunch. They have Corner Gas the animated show. I liked Terra Nova, the family science fiction.
Plex includes Crackle. I'm starting to see the same movies on all these services.
Not going to review free if you enter a credit card scams, for a measly week.
In the end, there's a reason things are free. The fantasy of the free internet is well past. The glory of advertisement TV is what drove me away from TV. Perhaps I should stay driven away.
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