Media I am not watching currently consuming due to there being too many streaming services

[olivermoss]

Shows I am not watching:

* The Last of Us. You can buy some shows and movies separately on HBO, but currently not that. I'd need a sub and pay a lot for just a rental. Nope.

* Poker Face the TV show, not to be confused with Poker Face the movie. A fairly big movie came out last year called Poker Face and it's all that comes up on Amazon. There is also a completely unrelated and well reviewed heist show from Rian Johnson, also Leverage co-creator Chris Downey is involved, called Poker Face. Even though I am subscribed to Paramount, which partially owns CBS and carries a lot of CBS shows... it's only on the separate Peacock streaming service. Like, I have most of CBS already, the only reason to get Peacock is just to rent that one show that honestly should be included on my current sub. I would like to see 'if Knives Out and Leverage had a baby' but nope, they should include it in my sub and not make me get another.

* Mob Pyscho - On this show I've gone from 'this fandom needs to STFU, it has a very bad weird ideas about japan and what japanese words mean problem, never touching it' to 'enough people have said interesting things about it that I really want to check it out'. (sometimes actually knowing japanese in a curse in anime fandoms)

It looks like it's currently on Crunchyroll? Huh, every other time I looked up a way this show there was only one way to watch it and it was something weird. So, maybe I will watch this one soon. I don't mind using CR for a bit, and if I get a sub for a month or two I'll get good use out of it.

Glad I am making this list and double-checked about Mob Psycho. A lot of TV I want to see, I just can't when it comes out... or am just not going to pay THAT much and then I lose track of it. I have Letterbox'd to keep track movies I want to see, but nothing like that for TV shows. I'll make a list in one of my journals, but I'll probably forget about it.

Movies I want to see but am not paying twenty bucks or whatever:

* M3gan <- Really want to see this. May cave and just get it.

* Tar <- ditto

* .... and hey I have a Letterbox'd account so I can just link my watchlist to see what's there. Some of it is too niche to be on a service and I may just need to buy a DVD and figure out how to play it. I theoretically have ways to play DVDs but I haven't actually done so in years. Some of them are just things I haven't gotten around to.

* Clerks 3 - I will someday watch this but I am not going to buy / rent / go out of my way. Someday it will be late at night and it'll just be there on netflix or something.

* I haven't seen all the the Conjuring movies since they are not all on the same streaming service, but I will eventually see them all

Comments

[mistressofmuses]

I feel like there are a bunch of shows I'd be interested in - The Last of Us, Interview with the Vampire, Severance, Our Flag Means Death, Poker Face... and a ton of other ones people have mentioned in passing as being worthwhile. Same with movies.

Unfortunately (by some measures, I guess), there aren't really any properties on their own that are strong enough to make me subscribe to a service I don't already have. It's never "oooh, [x show] is on [y service]? Time to subscribe!" instead it's "well, bummer that I won't end up seeing [x show.]"

Same with some movie franchises - V/H/S, Conjuring, the Paranormal Activity films... I don't *love* any of those enough to join a service just to see them, but I'd *like* to see them all.

*Maybe* HBO or Shudder or whatever else will wind up with enough stuff on it that it does convince me to spend money on it for a few months at least, but it's going to take a fair amount of critical mass to make me do so. (And with services yanking shows with little or no notice in a lot of cases, it makes me even less certain that I want to join up, for fear that content I joined and planned to watch will vanish.)

[olivermoss]

Some of the creators I follow are very into Shudder and think the catalogue is amazing, but I guess I don't know how to navigate it. I don't know enough about horror, or maybe I am not into horror enough to appreciate 'not amazing but interesting or good example of [thing]'

And yeah, all of my typical points about how buy a few things highly relevant to my interests is cheaper and I can keep them... even if digital versions can always go *poof*. It's not risk free, but it's way better value.

I should really see about picking up Stranger Things DVDs, apparently they are working on a physical release for seasons 3 and 4.

HBO has scuttled so much of their own library it's nuts.

[mistressofmuses]

I haven't ever looked into Shudder seriously, but I know they have at least a handful of things I'd be interested in seeing. (I think they still have SyFy's "Channel Zero", which I heard good things about.) I don't know exactly what their catalog has right now, or how often things disappear.
I've heard mostly good things about what is available, but I also have no idea how easy it is to find the good stuff, ha.

Horror is my "easy" genre. I love *good* horror, but even mediocre horror tends to entertain me (made easier because of how often I'm multitasking, probably), and truly bad horror often entertains me in ways unintended, ha. I feel like I've missed out on some greater horror canon that would make me more knowledgeable... though I did take a history of horror film class that gave me some appreciation for certain subgenres.

Big same. I really feel like I need to return to attempting to get personally owned copies of the things I truly like. Physical media when possible, unlocked files that I can actually download if digital.

Ugh, I'm so mad about how hard HBO keeps shooting itself in the foot. I hate that they have things I still want to see... while also sucking so bad!

[olivermoss]

I've heard good buzz for Channel Zero but their first season was almost the opposite of what I wanted from an adaptation of Candle Cove.

As much as I want the DVDs, what I really want it just files on my computer. That would be bliss.

[mistressofmuses]

I haven't seen any of the four seasons of Channel Zero, though I think it was the second? third? one that was best received? Though all were pretty well-reviewed from what I recall. But I also really like the Candle Cove story, and can see lots of unsatisfying ways to adapt it.

Yeah - I just want ownership of the things I like. I don't like my access to them being determined by the whim of a distributor that could at any point decide to take it away.

[olivermoss]

I also don't want to deal with worsening streaming services and the possibility of things disappearing. The X Files revival was by Netflix and then left Netflix not that long after? Weird. Yeah, it's all too messy.

I need my Leverage and my Stranger Things on lock

[mistressofmuses]

Exactly! Once upon a time it at least seemed like a service's original content was safe! And sure - Stranger Things is big enough that I can hardly imagine Netflix ever getting rid of it... but I've been shittily surprised before. And even without the specter of disappearing content, the idea of paying a monthly fee forever and ever should I want to rewatch things is also less appealing than just owning a thing outright.

[olivermoss]

Yeah, I don't want to pay for Netflix forever just for one show. I do like having Netflix, but there is only one show there that is really important to me.

[mistressofmuses]

I would vastly prefer to own the things that are important to me, rather than perpetually pay for conditional access, heh.