I also watched The Dawn Wall, which is about climbing and free soloing.”įacebook for outdoor content: “I’m a big outdoors enthusiast - a white-water kayaker by trade, but I like snowboarding, mountain biking, and climbing. It’s really awkward! They put 100 people in a grid and say, ‘Raise your hand if you believe you’re in the top 50 percent of good-looking people in the group.’ And, like, 75 percent of the people raise their hands. I also like their documentary series, including one called Blown Away, about glassblowing. Netflix : “We watched Tiger King, of course. Hulu Plus for live TV: “Mostly football (when we had football), and my girlfriend watches Keeping Up With the Kardashians.”Īmazon Prime Video for movies: “Old movies like Mrs. Michael Gordon, co-founder of Kush Tourism and The outdoors and music aficionado whose girlfriend loves the Kardashians Criterion also has lots of extras and monthly curated, themed suggestions - up right now are 15 films with musical scores by Quincy Jones.”īrown Sugar for classic black cinema: “ Cooley High, Cleopatra Jones, Foxy Brown, and Slaughter got me through Wednesday.”Ĭrunchyroll for anime: “My daughter (who is not at home with me) and I schedule designated times to ‘sync watch’ anime. It’s one of the finest sports films ever made. No Olympics in Japan this summer? Ichikawa Kon’s Tokyo Olympiad will bring you back to the last time the Summer Games were held there, in 1964. The Criterion Channel is a breathtaking collection of the finest movies ever made anywhere, presented with the same care that Criterion brought to their most excellent - and most pricey - DVD releases. So, in this pandemic spring, an old man’s fancy turns to streaming. The classic-cinema fan (with a taste for anime)īob Thompson, professor of TV and popular culture at Syracuse UniversityĬriterion for classics and curated themes: “I still watch a lot of TV on my thousands of Beta tapes, VHSs, and DVDs, but on the first day of “stay at home,” my Betamax broke during a marathon screening of Manimal (NBC, 1983). I’ve been rewatching all the Marvel movies.”ĬBS All Access : “For Picard and Star Trek: Discovery.” How do you know that?!’”ĭisney+ for Marvel Movies: “We just got Disney+, thinking it would be for Ollie, but I probably stream that more than him. We went to an aquarium months ago, back when you could be in public, and my son Ollie says to me, ‘That’s a poison dart frog!’ And I look at him like, ‘That is a poison dart frog. I also like kids’ shows that follow an adventure, like Octonauts (available on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video). Like, there are no kids’ shows that end with, ‘And that’s why you should kill the weak.’ But shows like Shaun the Sheep and Wallace and Gromit are just more pleasant. Noggin has PAW Patrol, which I guess kids enjoy and parents need. Noggin and Amazon Prime Video for kids’ shows: “So much of the streaming I do now is looking for shows my son will like. The dad desperate to entertain his toddlerĮugene Mirman, comedian and star of the new documentary It Started As a Joke (Luckily, many services offer free trials, in case you need a minute to figure out if you want to commit.) To help make sense of this new and overwhelming landscape (and plan your next binge), we asked more than two dozen interesting folks with highly discerning tastes to share their personal screen-time cocktails. It’s a lot to keep track of - especially when you consider the 200 or so other niche streamers offering highbrow foreign films, sleazy slashers, or shojo cartoons. HBO Max debuted in May, while NBC’s Peacock rolled out nationwide in July. Joining the big four of Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, and Disney+ are services like Quibi, which launched in the spring ( not that anyone noticed). The Great Streaming Wars of 2020 are fully underway, and at just the right moment, considering how much TV we’ve all been watching during quarantine.
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