If you want to exert competitive pressure, cancel and switch to Amazon or HBO. In fact, keep cancelling when you run out of content worth watching and resubscribing to other services. You'll get a constant stream of new content that way even if no one service has everything you want.

I remember when you had to get your butt to a movie theater to see something new if you wanted to see it AT ALL. Movies would show up eventually on TV, but there was no good way to predict or find them and they would be stuffed with obnoxious ads.

Waa waa waa. Check your local library, they have lots of stuff.

I put the DVD service through its paces and notice when I can't get stuff like Lord Jim, El Cid, The Court Jester and How the West Was Won. So I get them at the local library (except El Cid which just seems to have vanished from the Earth). None of those titles have been hot tickets for decades. Netflix gets 99% of…

I never gave up my DVD service, I just added streaming. I've never noticed how streaming has all this stuff that isn't on DVD.

Shit I'm old enough to remember a day when if you didn't see a movie in a theater it was GONE unless you stumbled across it some rainy Saturday afternoon stuffed with commercials.

Hulu content is crap though.

Video stores are DOA in San Francisco. But local libraries have a lot of stuff if you check.

The library is my last resort. I get Adventure Time there.

I got Deadpool from Netflix a while back. On DVD. Anyone who wants breadth and convenience but doesn't want to pirate stuff (cuz after all they do deserve some money for making stuff we like) should just keep the DVD option. It's cheap and they get everything except for some odd reason, Adventure Time.

I'll give HBO Now a try in Jan when Westworld is bingeable.

They still pay for stuff I don't understand, like Sense8 and Adam Sandler movies. Why would more than six people watch that?

When I run out of things worth adding to my queue to watch, I'll cancel Netflix and then come back later to check out what's new. But my queue hasn't been shrinking. It seems to keep growing. Oh well.

I love it when Netflix recommends something for me and the expected star rating is something like one stars (Easy for instance). Netflix, make up your mind!

When do we get our dark and gritty Gilligan's Island reboot? Beverly Hillbillies, a la Mr. Robot (Trump supporters vs. Wall Street). How about Hogan's Heroes, only this time in Auschwitz?

So the big twist is that Cristal is gasp wait for it HISPANIC. Well that would work only if Blake Carrington is played by Donald Trump (who will not be otherwise employed if there is a God). Otherwise she'd have to be a Hispanic transgendered woman who is suspected of being a terrorist by the NSA. The problem with…

Netflix or Amazon could do it. Amazon needs to take bigger risks, it's looking too broadcasty.

Sounds like a good topic for an ink-dark comedy, but NBC wouldn't dare do it. And that's the problem, they wouldn't dare do anything risky or interesting. Might as well cancel NBC while you're at it.

Good idea for a Jenji Kohan series on Netflix.

S1 is on Netflix streaming but I never made it past the first episode. There are better things to watch. That's why it died.