The poster PedroPero was on the fence about getting rid of Netflix, I was offering some free alternatives to that service.
I’m glad you are happy with your choices in TV viewing and the costs associated with those services.
For me, my cable company was charging me $160/month (9 years ago) and there really wasn’t anything to watch. So I put up an outside antenna for local news/sports and picked up a Roku box. Both items were less than 1/2 of one month’s cable bill.
He was replying to my comment that I want to get rid of Netflix. This is a chat, right? 
You might want to add some of the “free” alternatives listed and see if your “watching companion” might like the selection.
I can’t believe Netflix is up to $24, WOW!! I think mine was $6 or $7 per month, when I had it.
one thing you might want to consider: cycling steaming services. i watch a lot of movies and each streamer usually has something i’d want to check out, but not all at once and i’m happy to wait. with Netflix and other streamers it’s become fairly simple to go on a one month on, three month off cycle (which is what i’m doing). you don’t lose any of your data and you get three months off from your billing cycle (in the Netflix** UI, just click Cancel on your account page, then click Pause. you can do this 2 more times for a total of 3 months – with Hulu you can pause 3 months at a time, etc.). when it’s time to un-pause, a lot of content has built up and it’s easy (at least for me) pick off the things you enjoy. Cheers.
** even if you Cancel, Netflix keeps your data for 6 months. so there is little risk in cancelling and signing back up again before the deadline.
I have Kanopy and I even rent DVD’s from the library(does anyone else do that in 2025?? 
), but they can’t keep up with the other streaming services.
YouTube is horrible for commercials, almost unwatchable these days.
I’ll keep Prime(for the deliveries and the new season of Fallout) Apple+ and Netflix(for now).
That should keep me busy for a while
my personal recommendation for a streaming service is Shudder, which specializes in horror and horror-adjacent content. They are quite cheap (I think I’m still at less than $10/mo on an annual plan). Honestly, they’d be worth it JUST for Joe Bob Brigg’s Last Drive-In, where he resumes his duty as horror movie host, just like the ol’ MonsterVision. But they also have a number of other exclusives and have hilighted content that’s just as rare and obscure and GOOD as anything you’d find on MUBI or the Critereon Channel.
The ALSO have a ton of cheap schlock, too, but it’s some of the BEST cheap schlock.
The Amateur (2025) - dir. James Hawes
Charlie Heller (Rami Malek) is a very mild mannered CIA cryptographer. The Clark-iest of Kents. He has a loving wife, Sarah (Rachel Brosnahan, the current Lois Lane) who must go to London for a conference. Charlie declines to go with her. While at the conference, there is a terrorist incident, and Sarah is killed. Charlie wants to hunt down the killers himself.
This takes what is a VERY standard action formula and gives it a twist by NOT turning Charlie into an instant bad-ass. There is no training montage showing him getting better at marksmanship. No sudden close combat skills flourish at the hands of CIA trainer Lawrence Fishburne. But Charlie uses the things he IS good at: puzzles, processes, and systems, to hunt down the killers, one by one, all the while staying a step ahead of both the killers AND his superiors at the CIA.
This is, so far as it goes, a better, more serious version of 2016’s The Accountant, if that film played fair and DIDN’T have Ben Affleck be a secret Rambo. It’s not perfect by any stretch. Brosanhan’s role is, expectedly, rather thankless, and Jon Bernthal also makes what amounts to a slightly extended cameo for no discernable purpose. The story is certainly nothing we’ve not seen dozens of times. But the tricks and traps Charlie sets up are fun to watch, and the ending is both satisfying AND stays within the rules the film previously established.
3 out of 5 cellular devices that can be used to track you.
Its been on our list for a while. Several folks in the rows in front of us on our flight to EWR were watching it, so I almost feel like I’ve seen too much.
I’d not been particularly interested, but… who knows — we may just watch it tonight 
The Canadian dollar numbers are always a bit higher due to our exchange rate.
I would totally do this if I was the only person watching. LOL.
It is a good idea, for sure.
I just finished watching the 8 episode series, Washington Black, on Hulu. It was very good.
Can’t beat a good steaming service. 
Started watching The Studio(ugh), but after a couple of episodes I switched over to Your Friends and Neighbours(enjoying it). The Studio just doesn’t do it for me, too goofy , might give it another shot later.
There were a couple of episodes of The Studio that almost made me stop watching, but I’m glad I finished the season - it ends well.
Well, Airplane happened to come on just as we were finishing up dinner/cleaning up the kitchen, so we ended up watching it to the end. Let’s just say that about 75% of the jokes do not age well, like, at all. 
, but the absurd, almost Dadaist ones as well as the language-based ones are just as funny.
Made me want to rewatch Police Squad.
Top Secret, the Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker film after Airplane, starring a young and absolutely hilarious Val Kilmer, is even worse. So, SO many of the jokes are variations on gay/trans panic. It’s unsurprising that David Zucker became a GOP apparatchik when Obama was elected.
A lot of 80’s stuff doesn’t sit well today. Almost the entirety of Eddie Murphy’s Raw is gay jokes. Revenge of the Nerds is infamous for its now-extremely-problematic sexual politics, as well as the broad stereotyping.
Morals and morés change. 
Oh, it’s so much more than that: misogynist, racist, nativist… the pedo jokes in the cockpit also don’t play so well — I still found those hilarious, but I’m clearly a bad person 
Raw is damn near unwatchable for me bc of that very reason. At least he apologized eventually.
We’ll see, my general rule is if I’m not into it by 2-3 episodes, it’s not worth my time.
That is a good rule, but I liked the first episode, so I was willing to give it extra chances to improve. If I had NOT liked the first episode, what you said. Which is what happened with Too Much. And might be happening with Murderbot, although the episodes are so short, maybe I’ll let it ride.
Watched first episode of Too Much and I liked it. Like the London setting and fish out of water premise. I watched an episode of Finding My Roots on PBS last night and Lena Dunham (and Michael Douglas) were featured. She was pretty low key and endearing so I’m trying to forget the annoying last season or two of Girls and enjoy Too Much.
Also watching last season of Acapulco on Apple TV. It’s been a fun show.
