Labor Day weekend brings more time to watch streaming, and September 1 brings more stuff to watch as many of the channels reload. Let's get right into it.
1) Brown Sugar: Yes, that's right! From outta nowhere, the "Like Netflix, only blacker" service enters the top 10 with a bullet--preferably one fired at some SUCKA who represents THE MAN. I enjoyed a brief free trial of Brown Sugar recently, and the selection is impressive. I'll do a review soon, but for now, just know that this has a few areas for improvement but is worth 4 bucks a month from what I saw.
2) Netflix: It was heading for a drop this week--I hadn't had time to watch much, plus the September adds were disappointing--but I took another look. The Jaws movies = not bad. More importantly, a Matt Berry Britcom I had never heard of premieres.
Also new: a new season of Narcos, and there was an announcement the director of La La Land is bringing an original series to Netflix. Then again, who isn't? Good to see Hercules and Mulan return, but they shouldn't have left in the first place.
3) YouTube: My highlight this week was a classic MTV combo staring with "The Week in Rock" (Kurt Loder, Jellyfish, Nigel from Spinal tap, coverage of a concert in Chile featuring Sinead O'Connor, Peter Gabriel, Sting, and--of course--New Kids on the Block). And MTV being MTV, it spent a segment hyping a Madonna Rock the Vote ad that it would "premiere" later that weekend.
After that, Remote Control, and though it wasn't one of the Kari episodes, it was a lot of fun. No other game show featured Colin Queen giving noogies to a contestant who had an errant spin on the "Wheel of Torture."
4) Hulu: It has quietly been adding a lot of Nat Geo shows lately, but I was surprised to see the entire run of How I Met Your Mother show up the other day. My Brooklyn Nine-Nine catch-up continues, and this past season was an improvement on the previous if the first whatever episodes provides an indication.
5) Shout! Factory TV: Some exciting surprises this month, including a collection of the 1980s video game game show Starcade, Melissa Leo in Streetwalkin' (not StreetwalkinG, mind you), and the late sixties/early seventies public TV series Soul! the addition of which *almost* makes up for them removing Black Omnibus and not putting it back.
6) Tubi TV: I did my own little Jay Thomas tribute this week by watching the first Annie Potts episode of 90s sitcom Love and War.
7) HBO: Millions of people watched and talked about Game of Thrones. Some of them even paid to watch it on actual HBO!
8) Crackle: Some interesting movies in September, including Saving Private Ryan, The Fugitive, and Whiplash, but I know you're more excited about the first two seasons of Walker, Texas Ranger.
9) MLB.TV: Had a nice sale--10 bucks for the rest of the season--and would be higher if watching the Pirates didn't make me kind of ill lately.
10) Acorn TV: Props for adding The Governor, the Alan Davies sitcom Whites, plus some kind of "sneak peek" DocMartin special. Doc Martin rules.
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