may I recommend…

✨piracy✨?

sub for a month with a prepaid gift card (so no potential issues cancelling). binge for a week, run out of stuff to watch, the rest of the sub goes unused and wasted. been down that road once every year or two here.

Hey, that sludge pipe wasn't cheap!

Yep, cancelled my subscription the day they announced the two-tier plans.

Doesn't your library let you borrow DVDs? Seems outdated but I very recently binged three seasons of Succession thanks to my local library!

...what? Have you heard of Goodwill or Value Village?

I mean, you can just buy dvds. They are cheap af. If you know where to look you can also find bluray discs for cheap. My boyfriend and I sometimes go to websites for used dvds and blurays and they don't cost 30 to 40 euros there.

You can also go to the library and borrow dvd and bluray movies. It's free and you can discover some films you would have otherwise never seen. I do that a lot and my boyfriend and I enjoy this setup. It is a lot cheaper and nicer than having subscriptions to two or three shitty streaming services that are filled with trash and none of them have the movies we want to watch. Fuck that shit. Physical media all the way. It is so easy and cheap to go back to physical if you really want it. It is probably cheaper than subscribing to services where you basically pay for air and own nothing.

Is it? I usually see them priced around similar to DVDs, that is like €3 - 15. Though I don't recall if new. Certainly so for the upper part, I only want to spend like €5 for used ones.
I like Momox for used and Rarewaves for new discs.

Well, unless... the price you mentioned seems right for UHD BluRay.

That fucking alphabet grid where you try to type search terms with the four arrow keys is what always sends me back to reading books. Like, just doing that with a keyboard-type layout would be way better or even T9 - or maybe they could recycle old used Blackberrys for the purpose.

I don't know the Goodies or Python one, but Stewart Lee did it in Comedy Vehicle as well, I think in Series 1?

They put out a lot of uninspired trash and axe the good shows early, but they do have a couple of truly great shows.

For quality originals though, Apple TV+. Highest ratio of good to bad content I've seen. Much smaller volume though.

I'm watching Poop Cruise

Someone told me they're funding Sesame Street, is this not true?

I cancelled after I realized I watched 2, maybe 3 shows a year on it. Had it since the pre-streaming days.

Are you living in 2015? Nah, I'm kidding, if it gives you enough, then fine. I just canceled right after the pandemic.

It isn't a bad value if you watch it regularly.

They do cycle in good movies, but they aren't always up front and noticeable. Every service has a massive amount of trash and crappy interfaces for discovering stuff.

My wife is in your boat. I've tried to convince her many times to cancel but she refuses.

Netflix isn't terrible. The Titan sub doc was good. Black Mirror, Love/Death/Robots. They have some good shows

If you like their content. For me, it's like one in 50 items are worth watching, if that. Sorting through the duds costs time and ain't nobody got time fo dat as far as I am concerned.