Usenet. 😏
But beyond that? We have CBS All Access for Discovery, Picard, Survivor, Big Brother, etc. We have D+Hulu for The Mandalorian, those DVD extras, and Hulu’s handy access to the extra-fucked-up Love Island Australia. We have Apple TV+ ‘cause I have a new phone for the first time in five years —bokeh!— and The Morning Show is appetizing garbage. (Try as I might, I can’t help loving Rachel Green and the little girl from Man In The Moon.) And every once in a while, I fire up the VPN, pretend to be in London, and stream Gogglebox, because Giles and Mary amuse me.
And then there’s Netflix, which… I’m not sure why I have it. Habit, mostly. If you take away Mindhunter, Dave Chapelle, and The End of the Fucking World, I haven’t really liked anything on there since the first season of Stranger Things. (The Haunting of Hill House was… fine. Unsatisfyingly okay, I suppose.) I’m probably just bitter about the hours they stole from me with Altered Carbon, but still… eh. They’re dangling by a thread with me.
Of course, it almost goes without saying that the first to fall was HBO Now, after how thoroughly they fucked me with the final installment of Petyr Baelish and the Half-Bolton Prince. I’m sure HBO Max will be nice, and I love South Park, but no. Not happening.
Oh, and fucking Crackle. Does Crackle count? Look, there’s nowhere else to stream old episodes of Just Shoot Me, okay? Get off my back.