Ya TV show quality as gone up by huge amounts no doubt about it. However, I did not expect a show I loved to be so bad that even with the nostalgia factor it was unwatchable.
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Baywatch Nights. Second season was better than X-Files on first viewing. Try to watch it now thoughâŚ
Maybe coked up 15-year-old boys were afraid he had alien AIDS.
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Testing out Youtube TV. Never had cable growing up or in college so itâs like Aladdin genie voice INFINITE COSMIC CONTENT but as a parent itty bitty free time. Oh well, Iâll probably cancel it and go back to the Hulu/Netflix combo as I really donât have the free time to justify 50 dollars a month. As a cable service itâs pretty good, better interface than the same olâ cable box interfaces that havenât changed in 10 years or so
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I love YouTubeTV. My cable bill had somehow swelled to like $130 a month so the $50, for a far better product, feels like a big win.
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We started the Americans last night. First episode was pretty great. Hope it keeps up.
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The Capone reviews are in andâŚ
Letâs just say a clear consensus has been reached that is shared between reviewers and audiences.
And it is better than ever.
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Yeah I flip back and forth. I have been a hardcore satellite / cable viewer. I was among the first percentile to own the first edition, 14 hour tivos. A couple of years ago I cut the cord. Sometimes I do get YouTube tv but when I do I find myself watching it very little. I have so many streaming options and alternative ways to see content that it just doesnât attract me.
I continued to be a huge consumer of network shows even as recently as a year ago, but I donât really watch anything any more and from what I can tell the networks are not creating any new watchable shows. Coming from someone who ingested thousands of horrible shows in their life, I feel that is a pretty big accomplishment.
Sports was still a reason for me to want to have a service, but lol sports right now and my desire to be held hostage over something that is relatively nominally priced otherwise doesnât sit well with me.
I love that first episode. I watched the entire Tusk scene like five times on first viewing. Was a huge fan of the show.
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Is the word âBoffoâ uses more than once?
No, that is most definitely not one of the words being used.
My cable company (Cox) offered me free HBO and said that they just needed me to lock in my current rate for 24 months.
Me: OK, so Iâll just pay what Iâm paying now for the next 24 months and I get free HBO?
Cox Scumbag: Yes
Me, apparently someone who is very dumb: OK, sounds good.
Three months later my bill jumped up 60 bucks. I called them
Me: Hey why did my bill go up? Thought I locked in my rate for the next 20 months?
Cox scumbag: yes, thatâs the rate youâve been paying the last year
Me: Why did my bill go up sixty bucks?
Cox scumbag: Oh, well a promotion expired. But youâre still paying the same rate
Me: Iâm paying sixty dollars more
Cox scumbag: Youâre paying the same base rate
Me: Iâd like to cancel my service
Cox scumbag: You canât cancel your service, you have 21 months left on your contract (swear I heard this asshole smirking)
Me: Iâm canceling my service.
Cox scumbag: Itâs a 270 dollar charge to cancel your contract (still smirking)
Me: OK. Cancel my service immediately.
Cox scumbag: Actually I think I can knock off something off your billâŚyes, I can give you a promotion for 50 dollars off what youâre paying now.
Me: No. Cancel my service.
Cox scumbag: But it costs 270 dollars to cancel your service. Over that 21 months youâd only be paying ten more dollars a month to stay with us. It would cost you money to cancel.
Me: Worse than that with present value. And yet, Iâm canceling my service. Youâre liars and cheats. Youâre a dishonest company.
This paraphrase doesnât even begin to capture the ordeal canceling the service was that followed this exchange. My god. I think they ended up offering me less than what I was originally paying. The guy couldnât understand why I was canceling. âItâs going to cost you a bunch of money!â I donât care man. Iâm canceling for spite. It might cost me money but at least I wonât give you assholes another dime.
Switched to youtube TV and paid like 40 bucks a month less than my original rate and had zero issues. Cable companies are just the scum of the earth.
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My cable company was so despised they changed the name of the company. Time Warner was a constant presence in the most hated companies lists. Upon changing their name to Spectrum they immediately again landed at the top of the most hated companies list.
Edit: #5 here.
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BJ and the Bear was a classic (Stacks!).
And now you have me thinking of some three other favorites from that era.
Dukes of Hazard
Love Boat
Fantasy Island
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Love the Americans. Easily belongs in the 2nd Tier of great shows.
Loved all those. I remember when I first heard about Dukes of Hazard. I was very young but already a tv junkie but the name made me thing about Knights and such.
While on a weekend ski trip with the ski club I belonged to, another kid was describing the show telling me how they were jumping the car while a guy was hanging out the window shooting a crossbow. After that I was hooked. (Except for the coy and Vance era)
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Thatâs a shame. I thought something might be off when Trank told a story about personally slathering fake shit onto Tom Hardy to show how thoroughly Capone had lost control of his bowels.
I loooooooove YouTube TV but lol at $50 a month. Thereâs so much free shit (w/ ads) that media companies are lucky I pay for anything at all. Aside from my time to watch their ads, but jokeâs on them. I have worked in advertising. I love watching ads.
I have no idea why people have cable. What you canât get on Netflix, Prime, or Hulu, you can download using uTorrent for free.
You can stream news through YouTube. There are dozens of outlets that you can use to stream any sporting event from any place around the world. I genuinely canât think of a single reason why anybody has cable. Cut the cord and save some money.