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Edward Mass posted:OK, something odd has just happened. I have a deactivated Paramount+ subscription and I was trying to see if I could use a promo code to get another free month, but when I signed in it acted like I had an active account. The thing is, under "Paramount+ Plan" on the account page, the space is blank. My email doesn't have any mention of renewed subscription, and my bank account hasn't been hit. Does anyone know what's up? I had a similar issue with Paramount+. I signed up through Apple TV channels a year or so ago but turned the sub off because I wasn't using it at the time. Paramount+ has a thing where you can sign into with your Apple ID if you signed up for it through Apple TV channels. While I cannot watch it through Apple TV anymore, I can however, still login to the Paramount+ with those credentials and watch it despite not having an active membership. It's ad-free too! 
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Edward Mass posted:OK, something odd has just happened. I have a deactivated Paramount+ subscription and I was trying to see if I could use a promo code to get another free month, but when I signed in it acted like I had an active account. The thing is, under "Paramount+ Plan" on the account page, the space is blank. My email doesn't have any mention of renewed subscription, and my bank account hasn't been hit. Does anyone know what's up? If it’s like Netflix, they keep your deactivated account around so you’ll get your watchlist back if you sign up again. I’m guessing the feature to prevent logins when your account is deactivated just wasn’t a high enough priority to get done. As long as you can’t watch anything it’s just a non-optimal user experience from their point of view, not an issue costing them money.
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Nov 2, 2022 22:29
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On the other hand AMC+ just let me keep using their service for free for over a month, after the free trial expired.
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Jose Oquendo posted:I had a similar issue with Paramount+. Well, Paramount's loss I guess! Time to visit some Strange New Worlds.
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Oh weird, it’s actually letting you stream stuff on a deactivated account? Basically this is the reason https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
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Nov 2, 2022 22:41
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Hot take: "free with ads" is not fuckin free.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Hot take: "free with ads" is not fuckin free. It is with adblockers
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God Forbid the doc about Jerry Fallwell Jr and the pool boy is actually not a sketchy or exploitative as I thought it might be. Just about a kid being manipulated by two Christian monsters and now coming forward to clear the air. And it's only a movie knstead of a bloated six part series!
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Shageletic posted:God Forbid the doc about Jerry Fallwell Jr and the pool boy is actually not a sketchy or exploitative as I thought it might be. Just about a kid being manipulated by two Christian monsters and now coming forward to clear the air. And it's only a movie knstead of a bloated six part series! yeah it's really good
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I’ve noticed Prime is getting more insistent about pointing you to Freevee and/or the sub channels you have to pay for separately. Not making enough on Prime membership I guess?
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Maxwell Lord posted:I’ve noticed Prime is getting more insistent about pointing you to Freevee and/or the sub channels you have to pay for separately. Not making enough on Prime membership I guess? Yeah, it seems like they've pushed the majority of their streaming library to Freevee and keeping Prime for their largely lackluster original content.
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I just gave up on Amzn Prime and will let it expire in December after what seems like 20 straight years. There was nothing left to watch and anything new they may have brewing can wait a few years.
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yeah you're right it sucks now  I used to love itI just wanted another fortitude
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They have Columbo, so there's that
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A MIRACLE posted:i never watched that before Do yourself a favor and check out an episode or two. It's a detective show, but it flips the murder mystery formula on it's head. Instead of being fed clues that you are supposed to figure out and guess who the killer is, the show shows you exactly who the killer is and how they committed the murder right up front. The fun of the show is in watching Columbo, who is one of the most entertaining characters in t.v. history, piece things together and box the suspect in until he eventually catches them or gets them to confess. It's one of the best formulas that episodic t.v. ever came up with. It's also a show that knew exactly what it was pretty much right away so if you watch two or three episodes and you're not liking it, you can drop it right there. It's not one of those "oh you have to give it a season or two to find it's footing" shows.
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Columbo also has incredible stunt casting for the murderers. Dick Van Dyke! Johnny Cash! Fisher Stevens as Steven Spielberg (but a murderer)! There's also an episode with José Ferrer, Jessica Walters, and Robbie The Robot.
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Colombo's great, yeah, binged most of the early seasons during the lockdown. A huge part of the appeal for me, other than the abovementioned stuff, is just the vibes/aesthetic/celebrity guests of the 70s. great Leonard Nimoy guest spot among others.
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If I may add a bit to Basebf555's description, another great bit of brilliance with Columbo is that the murderers are almost always upper class amorals who are killing for material benefit, and Columbo is specifically coded as working class and basically as far from a cop as a cop can be (he doesn't carry a gun). The episodes play with this dynamic and it's always very entertaining.
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Does anything modern come close to the satisfaction of Columbo?
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Yea for sure if you're into the whole 70s aesthetic and you're fond of a lot of that era's character actors, that's another huge reason to watch the show. Like, I don't care what the show is, if you tell me I'm gonna see Donald Pleasance as an arrogant winery owner, I'm gonna watch it.
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Columbo just might be the greatest television character of all time.
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"oh and one more thing..." might be the best character tagline of all time.
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Basebf555 posted:They have Columbo, so there's that I can get Columbo on Peacock! My tv shows were basically down to this and I can wait to finish a 3rd lap through the Expanse (fell off mid S4).  It looks like you don't need a Prime sub to watch X Files, Rockford or Columbo anyway since it's on Freevee. :meh: Almost all the movies I had saved all are unavailable/somewhere else now anyway. Keyser_Soze fucked around with this message at 20:44 on Nov 3, 2022 |
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Baron von Eevl posted:Columbo also has incredible stunt casting for the murderers. Dick Van Dyke! Johnny Cash! Fisher Stevens as Steven Spielberg (but a murderer)! Also the curious guy, Spielberg directed the first Columbo episode. Others notable murderers: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Martin Landau, Roddy McDowal, Robert Cup, John Cassavetes, Patrick McGoohan, Robert Vaughn, Ricardo Montalban. I could talk about Columbo all day,
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Columbo is my favorite “new to me” tv show of the last three years. Even when the episodes are boring Falk is still incredible.
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Quit spoiling it how am I supposed to guess that shatner is the murderer now
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Probably from the opening of the episode where they show Shatner murking a dude, probably while mispronouncing "sabotage."
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the only "mysteries" in Columbo are: 1. how arrogant, somewhat clever but ultimately dumb the perps are 2. how badly Columbo will humiliate them in the last 10 minutes
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The best episodes are the ones where Columbo knows who did it within ten seconds of arriving and just spends the whole episode trolling the suspect and letting them trip themselves up.
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My favorite episode is the one with Dick Van Dyke because it so expertly closes every avenue to Columbo until he has to make a desperation play. He almost meets his match but, of course, knows what he has to do to get his target to incriminate themselves.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Columbo is my favorite “new to me” tv show of the last three years. Even when the episodes are boring Falk is still incredible. Same. Not really my kind of show at all at a glace but I gave it a chance and Falk is so charming, and the guest stars I know of have been fun. I watched the Nimoy episode last week and he did a great job of being an rear end in a top hat I hated him!! Spock why Also I like how sometimes the same guest stars are back in other episodes, like Robert Vaughn.
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Keyser_Soze posted:the only "mysteries" in Columbo are: Every single killer on Columbo would get away with it if they just remembered that it was Shut the gently caress Up Friday, and they never do.
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I haven't given up on prime because they still keep letting my do free trials without ever paying lmao This is going on like 4 years of that I haven't even had to change the card number or my login. I just keep clicking the button lol
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Keyser_Soze posted:the only "mysteries" in Columbo are: Yay! An opportunity to cross post this masterpiece
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The Modern Leper posted:Yay! An opportunity to cross post this masterpiece  at Columbo calling in to Frasier's show with his one more question.
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Got around to Do Revenge. Amazing 90s send-up. Literally the only gripe I have with it is she went too far for that last-minute make-up to work. Everything else was fair game, but the cliched speech being sincere and working after her mother's life was threatened and the vehicular assault took me right out of the movie.
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Chas McGill posted:Does anything modern come close to the satisfaction of Columbo? Amazon Prime has The Peripheral which I haven't watched yet, but the book it's based on is pretty great and I've heard lots of people praising it. Also, The White Lotus season 2 is starting up on HBO.
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The Modern Leper posted:Yay! An opportunity to cross post this masterpiece Thank you, this owns.
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