I haven't subscribed to Disney + yet as it seems they're not overly supportive of Hulu or really supportive of good programming standards in general. Cancelling the Runaways perhaps was good as the 2nd Season lost my interest but just overall kind of meh on Hulu in general after they gained 90% control of it. Also, each of these quarterly earnings reports concerning Fox and the types of restructuring that's been done since I find akin to any corporate swallow-up
(slick PR of course makes any direct realization of this probably only more so in past tense but I digress).
Anyway, to be fair SVOD overall
(not just Disney+) is slowly starting to become an annoyance as every step forward (especially with Netflix) seems to result in several infuriating steps back. The only positive I see at the moment isn't a grab bag of content but more so the high financed original shows that now seemingly have become a reality
(after a perceptual back/forth on if this is so with Netflix). The 2nd positive of course is also discontinued shows being able to continue elsewhere sometimes too but that's a rarity.
As far as SVOD based grab bag of content goes, something far more customized and more transparent I think is going to increasingly be preferable (
news headlines pertaining to something being out quickly becomes exasperating as should just be able to tell so much easier when log-in and see a schedule of new content and older discontinued and so forth like a TV guide would be nice). The
lists on Netflix make it especially hard to find something to watch. I felt like throwing my CPU across the room having to sift through these; if a remote would've been so much easier to simply throw at the TV but I digress
.
Disney+ even with a seemingly better user interface isn't as far of a departure as I would've liked especially with their labelled content as culturally dated or the thing they've done with the Simpson's and just a lot of PR surrounding the Fox situation every quarterly report. This just makes it apparent the studio is now mainly just a content library to be mined
(and revisioned of course). For now, Fox Searchlight is of course still being acknowledged at least until the next quarterly report to investors on stuff they probably aren't going to want to market for the next layer of contextualization that gets piled on PR wise.
