Hidden Gems of Hulu and Hulu+

tuffalobuffalo wrote:
Mixolyde wrote:
Grenn wrote:

Looks like everything from Cartoon Network is available on Hulu.

OMG, I am obsessed with Rick snd Morty. Dark, hilarious, satirical, mind-warping, and amazing.

Did that go up on Hulu yet? I've been looking forward to watching it.

YesYesYesYes! Go now!

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is apparently now on Hulu. Time to at least get a trial to watch this masterpiece again.

AcidCat wrote:

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is apparently now on Hulu. Time to at least get a trial to watch this masterpiece again.

I watched it for the first time last year. It's genius. Pure genius.

Party Animals is up on Hulu, and it's one of my favorite TV shows. It's about a group of young people involved in British politics and it touches on a variety of issues through characters who are nuanced and interesting without feeling unlikeable and misanthropic.

God help us all if Matt Berry and Charlie Day ever team up to make a movie or TV show. Nothing will ever be as funny again.

Well, Hulu now has a no commercials plan for $12 a month. I'm surprised it's so cheap. There are a few excluded shows, but they at least only do before and after commercials on those.

Definitely worth it for me to get all the Funimation anime without commercials.

Is this a good place to discuss about 11.22.63?

Hobbes2099 wrote:

Is this a good place to discuss about 11.22.63?

As good as any. There was a little talk in the fall TV thread but nothing much. I enjoyed the first episode well enough, but I'm still not sure if I'm sold yet.

tuffalobuffalo wrote:
Hobbes2099 wrote:

Is this a good place to discuss about 11.22.63?

As good as any. There was a little talk in the fall TV thread but nothing much. I enjoyed the first episode well enough, but I'm still not sure if I'm sold yet.

I was kind of disappointed. While it is basically faithful to the book, they cutting out a ton of the story to streamline it. And the book does a better job of describing how Jake feels about the past, from moments of ugliness to moments of pure joy of getting to witness things he only read about.

It's not bad, and maybe is still a great story for TV. But maybe it's not so great coming from the book.

I haven't read the book, and I'm considering reading it after the season is over.

I loved reading the Martian and when I finally saw the movie, I couldn't help comparing every scene.

Mixolyde wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:
Mixolyde wrote:
Grenn wrote:

Looks like everything from Cartoon Network is available on Hulu.

OMG, I am obsessed with Rick snd Morty. Dark, hilarious, satirical, mind-warping, and amazing.

Did that go up on Hulu yet? I've been looking forward to watching it.

YesYesYesYes! Go now!

Super annoyed and frustrated that Season 2 is not appearing on Hulu. Blarg!

Saw the second episode. I can't help but think this is our generation's Quantum Leap. Except there will be very little leaping.

I'll wrap in spoilers about something that's annoying me:

Spoiler:

I understand what's at stake, but I think there's a problem with how James is going about this. Once the past starts to push back and the house with all his stuff burns down, I think he needs to step out of the cupboard and have a do-over.

I understand how annoying it would be to go into Ground Hog day mode where you do over everything with every mistake you want undone... BUT that's a kid's life at stake that he could try to save.

Trying to talk to his dad and the past pushing against it was pretty awesome.
Also, you never throw your iPhone into the river. You keep it. That's high quality imagery he could have saved for when he's finally at Grassy Knoll. (Still haven't read the book, but I'm assuming where the story is headed.

Related to Hobbes' spoiled text, this spoils, but I don't believe it would ruin a reading of the book. But it does spoil some of the events related to Harry, and one other minor plot device.

Spoiler:

Interestingly, in the book, he does go back and reset. He goes with the express intent of saving Harry, as a more thorough test. He saves Harry, but it's not perfect. Worse, he gets back to find out that not only is Harry never the janitor anymore, but he interprets Jake's rescue as a call to do more, signs up for the army and is killed in Vietnam. That trip took a few months, but it set down some guidelines for how would need to proceed.

So he goes back once again, saves Harry, and then gets back to his mission. But in the book, it's 1958, so he has a lot more time to waste. But he has a much better idea of how life in the late 50's, early 60's works.

I think he pops into the past a few times at the beginning. There is a more elaborate set of circumstances that play out, and his different actions alter the events slightly. In the book there is also more about that old bum that he meets first, who they refer to as the yellow hat man. But on his last trip, the card in his hat is now orange. He has no idea what that means. And since I'm just halfway through the book, I don't really know either.

Thanks.

I can't help but see this story and think of how I play some video games (of sorts); should I re-load and try again? After a while, you've progressed so much that even if your run was less than stellar, starting over is too much of a problem.

Also, I'm assuming that even if you return to the present after 2 minutes, Jake still ages all the time he's staying in the past, correct?

Yes, that's what triggers Al to recruit Jake. It made more sense in the book, because the time frame was longer, but Al comes back older and sick with cancer. Part of that is due to an insanely unhealthier style of living on a guy that was already older and not in great health. After nearly 5 years in the past, he came back.

More mild book spoilers, from early in the story.

Spoiler:

In the book, this was handled much more smoothly. Jake comes back to the diner a day later to see a sick and dying Al, instead of just a few minutes after speaking to Christy. There is also the funny realization that the because of the cheap hamburgers that Al sells, because he can get them from the meat market he goes to, means that everyone is eating the same exact cow, over and over and over again.

Al has been doing this for years, so it has been slowly aging him. He takes vacations to the past, which makes it easy to just keep working day in and day out.

12 Monkeys, the series, was added to Hulu. Season two premieres soonish. It expands things in a way that I found entertaining.

Awesome! I had started it, but got distracted. Then we switched providers, and lost the episodes to my old DVR.

I really want to finish up this season for Season 2. I thought the reboot for the story was really well done.

Arise! Looks like all of Robot Chicken is on there. Gonna have to start from the beginning.

Now that network television is picking up it might be worth subscribing to Hulu again. I swear, they're the only service with such huge lulls in their lineup that I feel the need to cancel them periodically.

Yeah, and once they lose the Criterion collection, I might think about cancelling again.

kuddles wrote:

Yeah, and once they lose the Criterion collection, I might think about cancelling again.

Are they scheduled to?

bnpederson wrote:

Now that network television is picking up it might be worth subscribing to Hulu again. I swear, they're the only service with such huge lulls in their lineup that I feel the need to cancel them periodically.

I removed them from my favorites, since the free stuff went to Yahoo View (which is nowhere near as intuitive to use).

ClockworkHouse wrote:

Are they scheduled to?

Criterion Collection is moving to Turner's new movie streaming service, and Hulu's contract for it at the end of November will not be renewed.

Hrm. Thanks for passing that along.

That reminded me to cancel my suspended account! I was set to resume late October and might have forgotten. I filled out their survey as to why and basically said I didn't like that they're moving in a network TV direction. Ditching most anime and eventually the Criterion Collection was the nail in the coffin of my interest in Hulu. I would be very unlikely to resubscribe at any time because the Showtime/Starz style packages they offer as add-ons can all be had through Amazon instant and the video quality is better through them.

They're original content offerings are just lame apart from Casual which was kinda good but ultimately forgettable.

I wouldn't be surprised if Hulu does pretty well as a business with the direction they're going. They seem to be going for all the viewers that have watched dumb, American network TV over the years. That's a pretty big slice of pie and all those viewers will continue to migrate to internet streaming vs over the air and cable.

It's kinda funny, as Netflix, Amazon to a degree, Starz, and HBO now have a healthy amount of original content that's actually well written, I don't even feel the need to bother sifting through all the junk offered by Fox/CBS/NBC, etc. I did actually make an effort for 5 years or so with Hulu and watched quite a few of those Network shows. Hilariously, pretty much every great show would get cancelled after or before the first season.

The only thing really keeping my Hulu subscription is that there are quite a few shows my partner likes on there, some of which are otherwise unavailable except through crappy network website streams or nefarious means (Brooklyn Nine Nine, Inside Amy Schumer, The Mindy Project, Broad City, the Shonda Rimes material, etc.)

We picked up Hulu recently because my wife decided to start watching Rizoli and Isles of all things. But it was 11/22/63 and the first season of 12 Monkeys that made it worth subscribing for awhile. Mostly, I'm not much of a fan of Hulu because I have a DVR, and I tend watch what I want when it airs, and Netflix and amazon have better selections of past shows.

So I'm checking out Dimension 404. I figure, it's ok if the show is pretty predictable as long as it's entertaining. Plus I've enjoyed a lot of what Rocket Jump has done so why not? First episode was ok. Then I check out the second episode. While the premise is, again, pretty predictable, I love where they went with it. Once again Patton Oswalt takes what should be a shlub role and makes it wonderful. Probably not going to win any awards, but it impressed me enough to continue the series.

We subscribed to Hulu this year, mostly to catch Twin Peaks (with the Showtime add-on). My wife binged Brooklyn Nine Nine this summer, and I recently discovered that season 2 of the The Good Place is on as well. However, it seems to be more difficult to find things as compared to Netflix.

I started watching Blindspot this week. Thought it might just be a straight up FBI/Police Procedural with a Twist (Jane Doe's bod as a catalogue of case files), but it might be shaping up to be a bit more in the first few episodes. I'm going to stick with it for now. Really slick production, but I'm not much of a fan of the lead FBI guy. Fortunately the other characters make up for what I don't like about him.