How do you consume "television"?

[Sympthsical]

32. We rotate around streaming services

Amazon and Disney/Hulu/ESPN are our staples, because we have Prime and D/H/E is somehow folded into my cell phone plan.

Then we just build up shows/movies we want to watch and might select activating a subscription that month. This past month we've been working through various things on Max. Last month we had Netflix, because I was finishing up the Crown and he was watching Heartstoppers (to my incredulous jeering in the background).

We're honestly both mainly YouTube people with an ad blocker. Partner watches all kinds of cooking shows and home improvement things, and I watch documentaries, gaming things, film/book discussion/criticism, and random nonsense (there can never be too many air disaster shows). We used to have all of the streaming stuff, but then realized we barely watched a lot of them.

I haven't had cable since about 2015. It isn't even a principled "Everything is garbage!" thing - even though it is. It just became wildly expensive for a service I was not really using. Network shows aren't really on our radar. So $60/month for 1TB internet, then $20 baseline streaming and whatever else we add that month. Keeps it simple stupid.

Anything important on this earth eventually ends up on YouTube. Partner is super into NFL and Basketball, but all of the half hour highlight reels are . . . on YouTube.