I don't ever associate Amazon Prime with their tv service outside of Shudder which I love.

Prime delivery has been delivering here <1 day lately. Now if I could just get the city to pick up my recycling with any sort of predictable cadence. Wife will order one tiny eye shadow and it'll show up in 24″ x 24″ x 12″ box loaded with packing material. That shit piles up quick.
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I don't recall being critical of MGM, other than the fact that they wanted $700 million for the Bond movie, which was outright ridiculous. So instead, Amazon just bought the entire studio.

:-)

Amazon can pretty much do whatever it wants these day but I think it was a good move to strengthen up their IP because quite frankly, it's a distant third to Netflix and Disney+. Much of their content relies on licensing deals from the other major film studios and now that Viacom and Warner Brothers have jumped in with their own streaming services, it won't be much longer before Amazon content drops dramatically.

I wouldn't be surprised if in the next few years, Amazon purchases Starz!/Lionsgate because they're still weak on IP. Amazon might target Sony as well, although their new distribution deal with Netflix goes into effect in 2022 and ends in 2027. Sony has already stated that they will not create their own streamer to compete with the biggies so it won't be long before they're ripe for a sale.
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Fair.

Just from what I've been watching, Prime has as much stuff that interests me as Netflix.

To me Netflix has been putting out a lot of junk lately and have a lot less stuff that I've wanted to watch, especially movies. Before the beauty of Netflix was that they piled up a bunch of series and stuff that were easy to find and watch front to back. Now that every studio is pushing their own streaming platform there is less of it, and Netflix (at least for me) has suffered. But I don't pretend to be a representation of their market.

Plus we're over the point of economic gain. I'm not going back to cable/satelite, no way. But the days of being able to entertain yourself cheaper because content was consolidated are over.
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I completely 100% agree.

Netflix was a much better streaming service before Disney owned 90% of Hulu and launched Disney+ in November 2019. We still have it, mainly because of the animated kids programs but I rarely use the service myself these days because they have too much crappy content that I need to scroll through to find something worth watching. Their service will only become worse when all of their licensing deals with Disney, Warners and Uni expire.

Amazon is the same for me, although I will watch Season 3 of Jack Ryan and the final season of Bosch. But in all honesty, they just don't have much that appeals to me these days. I liked Flea Bag Season 1 enough but I just never got around to watching Season 2.

I have no plans to return to any type of cable or TV package and I'm really thrilled with Spectrum Choice, which is only $24.95 per month for all locals plus 10 channels of your choice. With HBO Max, Showtime and Starz!, I'm paying less than $50 a month and can't ever imagine going back to a cable package or Direct TV package with 300 plus channels, 280 of which I'll never even watch.

With that said, I'm still holding out on Peacock and Paramount Plus and won't subscribe until it becomes absolutely necessary. If Showtime folds into Paramount Plus, I'll be more inclined to subscribe to Peacock but until then, nope.
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Bezos really does want to own the world, doesn't he?
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Aw Yiss!!

THE SHOW YOUR GRANDPARENTS WOULDN’T LET YOUR PARENTS WATCH IS BACK!
Filming has begun on The Kids in the Hall’s 8-episode Amazon Original series in Toronto. Below is photographic proof that we can still occupy the same physical space. #wereback #kidsinthehall @PrimeVideoCA pic.twitter.com/2eFFYYnzQ0

— Dave Foley (@DaveSFoley) May 26, 2021

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Those are the Daves I know, I know...
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The only thing Prime Video is good for these days is if you wanna watch an old 70's/80's B-movie.
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Eh, I don't know. I absolutely love Bosch. Marvelous Mrs Maisel I expected to hate, but can't get enough of it. The Boys is good (even though I've only seen S1. Sneaky Pete is worth the watch.

There is some good stuff on there. Along with a ton of shit, but yeah, Netflix is similar these days.
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I think what Netflix has going for it is that I can tell if something is shit in one click. These other interfaces I have to drill into to get enough detail to know if its shit, making me even more annoyed and more likely to miss good stuff because I've put them on the back burner.

This is a good reminder though to get back in there and wade through the mud on some of these other platforms.
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Watched Robot Jox a few weeks back. Did not age well? lol
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I guess Amazon is getting into big budget original movies now.


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I liked the recent Tom Clancey movie with Michael Jordan. Chris Pratt has a original movie coming out this July on Prime.

TV series is thin but I liked Fleabag and Marvelous Ms. Maisel. And the Jack Ryan series.

They spent $1 billion to redo the lord of the rings as a TV series
Spent $1 billion for the NFL
$8.5 billion to get MGM’s catalog

They have the deep pockets to be players in the steaming market.
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If you're looking for Prime content, check out Loudermilk.


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Watched the first episode.

Ron Livingston is a national treasure. :-)
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