Weekend #43 of 53 (10/22 – 10/25/2020) for 2020 Picks By Streaming Service
Staying home this weekend and looking to watch some higher profile movies? You’re going to have a selection of several feature films, including:
HBO Max – Roald Dahl adaptation Witches originally intended as a theatrical release
Amazon Prime Video – the sequel to that bizarre Sacha Baron Cohen character Borat most easily titled Borat 2, but the actual title is: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Netflix – They are still making Tremors movies? You know those graboid creatures that tunnel underground? Yeah, they are still making those movies. Tremors: Shrieker Island available to watch right now. There’s also Rebecca.
Hulu – the wild, weird Bad Hair let’s down its spooky locks
Netflix: Oct 21
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*Title with asterisk – newly released Title is linked and has star rating – already watched, rated and reviewed Title bolded – on our schedule to watch/rewatch, rate and review (or in progress)
NOTE: If you’re coming to these posts weeks or months later, some and/or all of the picks listed below may no longer be on the streaming services indicated. Anything marked as “Original” typically doesn’t expire on the streaming services.
NETFLIX Movies
*Tremors: Shrieker Island
*Rebecca
Bending The Arc (2019)
Cadaver
The Hummingbird Project
Yes God, Yes
Move
Over The Moon
NETFLIX TV
*My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman: Season 3
Barbarians (Oct 23)
The Queen’s Gambit
HBO Max Movies
*The Witches – Roald Dahl adaptation (Oct 22)
HBO Max TV
*The Undoing – Season 1, Episode 1: “The Undoing” (Oct 25) Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant
Amazon Prime Video Movies
*Borat Subsequent Moviefilm AKA Borat 2 (Oct 23)
Hulu Movies
*Bad Hair – Original (Oct 22)
Cyrano My Love (Oct 19)
Shudder Movies
*32 Malasana Street (Oct 22)
Them (Oct 19)
Sleep Tight (Oct 19)
*Joe Bob’s Halloween Drive-In Special Shudder TV LIVE Friday October 23, 2020 @ 6pm PT (GMT-8)
Premieres live Friday October 23 and available for streaming Monday October 26
The Trial of The Chicago 7, originally intended as a theatrical release, was picked up by Netflix. Blumhouse continues their horror movies Q&A with directors watch party this Saturday, but you can see the movies on Amazon already: Evil Eye and Nocturne. Also on the horror front, Shudder will premiere The Mortuary Collection.
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*Title with asterisk – newly released Title is linked and has star rating – already watched, rated and reviewed Title bolded – on our schedule to watch/rewatch, rate and review (or in progress)
NOTE: If you’re coming to these posts weeks or months later, some and/or all of the picks listed below may no longer be on the streaming services indicated. Anything marked as “Original” typically doesn’t expire on the streaming services.
NETFLIX Movies
*The Trial of The Chicago 7
*A Babysitter’s Guide To Monster Hunting – Original
Weekend #41 of 53 (10/8 – 10/11/2020) for 2020 Picks By Streaming Service
Halloween and October in general is Christmas for horror fans. Since the movie theater landscape is ravaged, we continue to turn to streaming for the bulk of new movies to watch. Thank you to the various streaming channels for stepping up and giving us new content to watch.
Watch parties! We’ve attended a few virtual watch parties and they are fun. There are several coming up this weekend and next.
A Blumhouse watch party event in association with Fangoria and for those with Amazon Prime Video on Saturday and Sunday including a Q&A with directors following the viewing.
Saturday October 10 @ 5:30pm PT – The Lie Sunday October 11 @ 5:3pm PT – Black Box
Amazon Prime Video: Oct 8
Welcome to the Blumhouse which is an upcoming collection of new original horror films, hailing from Amazon Studios and Blumhouse Television. The watch party event is scheduled to begin this Saturday, October 10 which will also include an after Q&A session with each of the films’ directors.
*Title with asterisk – newly released Title is linked and has star rating – already watched, rated and reviewed Title bolded – on our schedule to watch/rewatch, rate and review (or in progress)
NOTE: If you’re coming to these posts weeks or months later, some and/or all of the picks listed below may no longer be on the streaming services indicated. Anything marked as “Original” typically doesn’t expire on the streaming services.
*The Haunting of Bly Manor – Season 1 – 9 episodes (Oct 9) Horror, loosely based on Turning of the Screw
*Fast and Furious Spy Racers Season 2: Rio
From Doctor Sleep director Mike Flanagan comes this new Netflix TV Series on October 9
HBO Max Movies
*Charm City Kings – Original
Not recommended, except if you truly want to see how incredibly awful it is: Cats will be available Oct 10 on HBO Max. They should have offered a director’s cut, something to see if they could improve this abomination. It’s one of those slow down and watch an accident mentality watches and mentioned only for that moment.
HBO Max TV
*The Lovecraft Country – Season 1, Episode 9: “Rewind 1921” (Oct 11) Lovecraftian Horror
Too many ads for an ad-supported streaming channel? via Ready Player One
We last talked about an ad-supported HBO Max that is planned to launch at some point in 2021, maybe, here: Does an ad-supported HBO Max make sense, really?. Plans can change, especially in the current times, but I missed this article which is about a month old now that mentions more specifics of how these ads could actually impact subscribers.
Emphasis in the quote is ours.
In a marketing survey sent to consumers last week, WarnerMedia explained that an ad-supported version of its HBO Max streaming service could potentially carry just two to four minutes of advertising per viewing hour, a figure that would be less than the five minutes per hour that runs on NBCUniversal’s Peacock and the nine minutes per hour often utilized on Disney’s Hulu.
We currently subscribe to Hulu with ads. Definitely notice the ads, but didn’t realize they were 9 minutes per hour. They are much more noticeable with the TV series content than movies.
In fact, I don’t remember movies being interrupted to show ads in the middle, which is my overall concern with ads. Don’t show me ads in the middle of movies, please. I realize Live TV movies have commercials every 20-30 minutes or so. They end up adding an additional 15 minutes at least to a movie. I don’t like that and would rather pay a few bucks more a month to avoid that sort of movie watching intrusion.
Leaving our experience currently with Hulu aside for a moment, I’m not sure even if they cut the price in half for HBO Max with ads, that we’ll be interested. We like Netflix, Amazon, HBO Max and Disney+ currently having zero ads. CBS All Access, another streaming service we subscribe to has ads, but at least with movies, aren’t intrusive. Understandable for live TV having commercials. Am OK with those there.
#1 on Netflix Top List; as of 10/1 – American Murder: The Family Next Door (RECOMMENDED)
Weekend #40 of 53 (10/1 – 10/4/2020) for 2020 Picks By Streaming Service
We all know these are unprecedented times right now. Earlier in the comments area we were having a discussion about the theatrical window. It’s such a polarizing topic with the big three theater chains and it’s stupid.
You can just click on the tag theatrical window and see all kinds of past posts on the topic. I’ve been heavily in favor of reducing the theatrical window and in some cases eliminating it altogether. Not for the big budget movies like Tenet, but for independent films, smaller to medium-sized budget films and streaming tie-in films. Keep reading what I mean by streaming tie-ins.
Hulu (TV): October 2
Meanwhile, we have Netflix chugging along during the pandemic releasing more new movies, more content than these mega million, er billion, dollar theater chains every single week. In some cases every few days. Netflix looks absolutely genius for investing so heavily in new content. They have been doing it not because they predicted the pandemic, but because they feared the day when there were no movies from studios they could license any more because the studios have their own competing streaming services. Here we are in 2020 and a lot of them have.
Back to the anemic number of movies by comparison being released theatrically right now. Sure, it might not make sense for some movies to release domestically with only 70% of theaters reopened and moviegoer confidence shaken over safety in some (many?) areas, but having a screen that can show movies that only/primarily shows classic movies isn’t going to drive moviegoers to the theater. They need more new movies.
How can they get them?
The answer is obvious. We write about and share new movies coming out every Thursday here. There are plenty to choose from to show in theaters. Plenty. Why aren’t theaters interested?
Is it ego? They think if they show a bunch of non-theatrical release movies in their theaters it will diminish the overall theater experience? That if they break their long standing rules about day and date releases, it will forever tarnish the business cycle?
We’re in a pandemic. There are no established movie theater rules that apply to this new situation. So, make up the rules that benefit your customers — moviegoers, us — and when the pandemic is over, you can go back to some pre-pandemic rules. Maybe you won’t want to? Maybe the new rules you create will be even better for your business.
Your product is movies. It’s like a hamburger stand that doesn’t sell hamburgers. You need new movies coming into your theaters every week.
Why haven’t the theater chains gone to studios and Netflix and other streamers and asked to screen their new movies until this pandemic is over? Let people see these movies in theaters that want to see them on the big screen. Maybe it doesn’t work for every single movie, but certainly this is better than showing a bunch of classic movies for $5, yes/no? Why is the stupid “respect for the theatrical window” the battle cry for the big three theaters?
They won’t listen to me. I’m just a spec of dust somewhere in a vast internet desert, but business survival 101 means being open to other creative visions, plans and ideas. Since these are unprecedented times, the movie theaters need to treat them accordingly and do things differently.
Maybe just possibly someday some movie theater owner will read this and say, “you know what, we should have tried something like this.”
We can always dream
Since we won’t be seeing any of the movies and TV shows below on the big screen (at least in the near future), we’ll have to continue to enjoy from the comfort of our homes, offices, computers, etc. My oh my, it’s quite the selection of new and classic content to watch.
As a final incidental note, October is my favorite entertainment
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*Title with asterisk – newly released Title is linked and has star rating – already watched, rated and reviewed Title bolded – on our schedule to watch/rewatch, rate and review (or in progress)
NOTE: If you’re coming to these posts weeks or months later, some and/or all of the picks listed below may no longer be on the streaming services indicated. Anything marked as “Original” typically doesn’t expire on the streaming services.
NETFLIX Movies
*American Murder: Family Next Door (9/30)
*The Outpost
*We Have Always Lived In The Castle
*You’ve Got This
*The Binding
*Dick Johnson Is Dead
*All Because of You
Human Nature (2019)
This movie dropped on Netflix and, while very predictable, has a fresh presentation style for true crime
A lot of interest is around Welcome To Sudden Death (FIRST LOOK), but have seen it and it’s not worth watching (nope, mini-spoiler: no Penguin battle in the kitchen battle) Yes, it’s available on Netflix.
NETFLIX TV
*Oktoberfest – Beer & Blood – Season 1
Bakugan: Armored Alliance: Season 2? (Oct 1)
Carmen Sandiego Season 3 (Netflix Family)
Code Lyoko Seasons 1-4
Evil Season 1
Familiar Wife Season 1
The Parkers Seasons 1-5
The Unicorn: Season 1
The Worst Witch Season 4
You Cannot Hide Season 1
Movies rotating into NETFLIX as of October 1
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls All Because of You (Netflix Original) Along Came a Spider A.M.I. Basic Instinct Black ’47 Cape Fear Carlos Almaraz: Playing with Fire The Dukes of Hazzard (2005) Employee of the Month Enemy at the Gates Fargo Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma: The Second Plate Free State of Jones Ghost Rider Ghosts of Girlfriends Past Good Morning, Verônica (Netflix Original) Gran Torino Her House of 1,000 Corpses Human Nature Hunt for the Wilderpeople I’m Leaving Now The Longest Yard (1974) Oktoberfest: Beer & Blood (Netflix Original) The Outpost The Pirates! Band of Misfits Poseidon (2006) The Prince & Me Stranger than Fiction Superman Returns Sword Art Online: Alicization Troy WarGames We Have Always Lived in the Castle Yogi Bear
HBO is starting out the month with their weekly new theatrical release movie with two horrible films. Since October is a notoriously spooky month, this seems timely. Sometimes it’s worth watching these films to see if they’re so bad, they’re good. Downhill is a lifeless, cold comedy with Will Ferrell and next week the worst film we’ve seen in quite time, Cats. Neither is recommended viewing, but maybe one or both work for you.
HBO Max TV
*The Lovecraft Country – Season 1, Episode 8: “Jig-a-Bobo” (Oct 4) Lovecraftian Horror
Movies rotated into HBO MAX on October 1
Bolded titles recommend quick picks we recommend:
A World of Calm: Documentary Series Premiere Akeelah And The Bee (HBO) All-Star Superman American Dynasties: The Kennedys American Reunion (HBO) Analyze That Analyze This The Angriest Man In Brooklyn (HBO) Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me Ball of Fire Beavis And Butt-Head Do America (HBO) Beef Beginners Best in Show BLOW Bombshell Boogie Nights Boomerang The Bush Years: Family. Duty. Power. The Butterfly Effect Cats & Dogs Catwoman Cellular Cheech & Chong’s Up In Smoke The Chronicles Of Riddick (Director’s Cut) (HBO) City Slickers 2: The Legend of Curly’s Gold Clean and Sober The Client Collateral Beauty The Color Purple Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind (HBO) Constantine Cradle 2 the Grave Critters 2 Critters 4 The Curse of Frankenstein Day Of The Dead (HBO) Death Sentence (Extended Version) (HBO) Deerskin (HBO) Dirty Dancing (HBO) Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (HBO) Deliverance Dracula Has Risen from the Grave Dreamcatcher Edge of Darkness Empire of the Sun The End: Inside The Last Days of the Obama White House Endings, Beginnings (HBO) Enter The Dragon Eraser Firewall Frantic Frequency (HBO) Friday The Friday After Next Galaxy Quest The Golden Compass Gothika Grudge Match (HBO) Hairspray Hairspray (Musical Remake) Harina (aka Flour) (HBO) The Haunting The Hills Have Eyes (Extended Version) (HBO) The Hills Have Eyes II (Extended Version) (HBO) Horror of Dracula The Hunting Ground I Am Sam Infamous The Informer The Invisible War Jonah Hex The Last Kiss (HBO) The Last Mimzy Laws of Attraction Lethal Weapon Lethal Weapon 2 Lethal Weapon 3 Lethal Weapon 4 Libeled Lady Life as We Know It Little Baby Bum Little Big League Madea’s Big Happy Family Malcolm X Man of Steel Marie: A True Story The Matrix Reloaded The Matrix Revolutions The Matrix Million Dollar Baby Miracle of Morgan’s Creek Mister Roberts Monsters Vs. Aliens The Mummy Mutiny on the Bounty Next Friday Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always (HBO) Nothing Sacred Open Water (HBO) Open Water 2: Adrift (HBO) Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures The Pelican Brief A Perfect Murder The Perfect Storm The Phantom of the Opera Presumed Innocent Race for the White House: Season 1 Raised By Wolves: Season 1 Finale Revolutionary Road (HBO) Roger & Me Sands of Iwo Jima Scanners (HBO) Scooby-Doo! Haunted Holidays Se7en Semi-Pro Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird Shame (HBO) Sherlock Holmes Sleight (HBO) Son of Batman South Park: The Pandemic Special Steel Superman vs. the Elite Superman/Batman: Apocalypse Superman/Batman: Public Enemies Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 They Were Expendable A Thin Line Between Love and Hate The Thin Man The Thing (HBO) A Time to Kill Tin Cup TMNT Training Day Tricky Dick Turistas (Extended Version) (HBO) U.S. Marshals Us (HBO) Vampire in Brooklyn A Very Brady Sequel We Will Rise: Michelle Obama’s Mission to Educate Girls Around the World What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? When Harry Met Sally Where the Wild Things Are The Whole Ten Yards (HBO) The Wings of Eagles You’ve Got Mail
Amazon Prime TV
*Sons of the Soil – Season 1
Bug Diaries Halloween Special (Oct 2)
Savage X. Fentry Show (Oct 2)
Movies rotating into AMAZON PRIME VIDEO as of October 1
30 Days Of Night A Knight’s Tale Battlefield Earth Blood Ties Drugstore Cowboy Eight Millimeter Funny Girl Girl, Interrupted Guess Who Joe John Carpenter’s Vampires Killers Kindred Spirits La Sucursal Madea’s Big Happy Family Mud National Security Next Level Noose For A Gunman Nurse Quantum Of Solace Raging Bull Señorita Justice Southside With You Spaceballs Species Thanks For Sharing The Big Hit The Da Vinci Code The Departed The Gambler Wore A Gun The Grudge 3 The Mask Of Zorro The Pianist The Wedding Planner Triumph Of The Spirit The Mothman Prophecies
Peacock TV
Saturday Night Live – all 45 seasons! Comedy, Live, Improv
Hulu TV
*Monsterland – Original Anthology, Horror
Hulu is going all out for Halloween with their focus on Huluween.
Movies rotating into HULU as of October 1
31 A Beautiful Mind Across The Line After Life Anti-Trust(Tech geek guilty pleasure!) Blade Blade 2 Blade: Trinity Blood Ties Blue City The Curse Of Downers Grove Deep Blue Sea The Do-Deca-Pentathlon Double, Double, Toil and Trouble Drugstore Cowboy The Executioners The Express The Eye Fallen Girls Against Boys Good Hair Guess Who Hostel Hostel: Part II House Of 1000 Corpses The Hurt Locker Ice Age: The Meltdown Interview With the Vampire Joe Judy & Punch Kicking & Screaming Killers Lady in a Cage Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome Martyrs Mud Nurse 3D The Pirates! Band Of Misfits The Portrait of a Lady The Quiet Ones Raging Bull The Sandman Senorita Justice Sk8 Dawg The Skull Snakes On A Plane Spaceballs Species Superbad Thanks for Sharing Tooth Fairy Triumph of the Spirit Vampire Wayne’s World 2 When A Stranger Calls William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet Zombie Killers: Elephant’s Graveyard
Is this a surprise? Sadly, no. Another movie that could have been watched in theaters is now, quite unnecessarily we think, skipping the big screen.
Wondering how much it’s worth to be able to say an originally intended theatrical release movie is exclusively available on your streaming channel? HBO is giving us some insight with Greenland starring Gerard Butler.
As of now, “Greenland” will arrive on PVOD to purchase on October 13. The film will then be available to rent on October 27. Again, pretty typical stuff. But in early 2021, “Greenland” will make its way to HBO on the network and the company’s HBO Max streaming platform, exclusively. And to ensure that exclusivity, it’s being reported the network had to pay between $20 million and $30 million. For perspective, that’s way more than what HBO paid to land the distribution rights for “Bad Education,” starring Hugh Jackman, which was nominated for a bunch of awards and played last year’s festivals.
$20-30 million is around what Tenet has grossed domestically through the last four weeks in September ($33+ million to be precise, according to Box Office Mojo), and the studio cut a deal with HBO to grant them an exclusive release in 2021.
Now ask yourself if Greenland had released domestically in theaters with the current amount of roughly 70% reopened theaters, would it have made more than $20-30 million? If you think yes, it likely doesn’t matter because day and date releases (available on streaming as well as theaters at the same time) are not looked upon favorably by the top three chains. OK, sort of save for AMC and Universal (see: Good deal – AMC strikes historic deal with Universal to shrink theatrical window to 17 days)
Maybe we’re in the minority here — that’s not terribly unusual with some of our opinions — but we wanted to see Greenland in theaters as originally planned, then it could still be exclusive to HBO. You know, the way things used to work? Who cares about the past, it seems. What would have been the price tag? We’ll never know now.
Did you want to see Greenland in the theater? Or perfectly happy to drop your 20 bones — or whatever it will cost — and watch on October 13 on VOD? Or wait it out until early 2021 when HBO Max has it as an exclusive new title?
Weekend #39 of 53 (9/25 – 9/27/2020) for 2020 Picks By Streaming Service
Movies
Netflix – Enola Holmes follow Sherlock Holmes sister, Enola, solving a mystery involving the disappearance of her mother
Amazon Prime Video / Hulu – Judy if you haven’t seen Renee Zellweger’s Oscar-winning Best Actress performance playing the incomparable Judy Garland, this weekend on Amazon Prime Video and Hulu is your chance. Might just have to rewatch this one!
Shudder – Verotika Glen Danzig’s directorial debut is an erotic horror anthology? Sign me up.
TV
Netflix – The Good Place – Season 4 The last season of the life after death comedy series, The Good Place available for binging starting 9/26
Amazon Prime Video – Utopia – Season 1 (9 episodes) Drama, virus … this one may have potential. check out the trailer in the Amazon
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*Title with asterisk – newly released Title is linked and has star rating – already watched, rated and reviewed Title bolded – on our schedule to watch/rewatch, rate and review (or in progress)
NOTE: If you’re coming to these posts weeks or months later, some and/or all of the picks listed below may no longer be on the streaming services indicated. Anything marked as “Original” typically doesn’t expire on the streaming services.
NETFLIX Movies
*Enola Holmes – Original
Real Steel
NETFLIX TV
A Perfect Crime – Documentary (Sept 25)
Country-ish – Season 1 (Sept 25)
The School Nurse Files – Season 1 (Sept 25)
Sneakerheads – Season 1 (Sept 25)
*The Good Place – Season 4 (Sept 26) — FINAL SEASON
Weekend #38 of 53 (9/18 – 9/20/2020) for 2020 Picks By Streaming Service
Once again this week, Netflix with their massive back stock of movies and TV shows already produced pre-pandemic is the focal point of what’s new on streaming.
Starting to make us wonder when they’re going to run out (we hope they don’t!), but it seems no other streaming channel has the ramp up and head start with originally produced content that Netflix has. Maybe in 2021 and beyond there will be more and better competition, but Netflix is at the top of the heap, somewhat easily, we are reminded week in and week out.
This week a featured movie starring Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson in The Devil All The Time and the TV series Jurassic World: Camp Crustaceous. Shudder also has an original, Spiral, that looks worth checking out.
As far as other TV, Netflix is also premiering Ratched, a series based on the popular nurse character from Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. HBO continues their weekly new movie on their platform with a good one, The Invisible Man (2020) from Blumhouse earlier this year. Although there hasn’t been a lot of competition that is currently our #1 favorite film watched in theaters in 2020.
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Netflix TV September 18
NOTE: If you’re coming to these posts weeks or months later, some and/or all of the picks listed below may no longer be on the streaming services indicated. Anything marked as “Original” typically doesn’t expire on the streaming services.
NETFLIX Movies
*The Devil All The Time
The Paramedic (Sept 16)
The Last Word (2017)
NETFLIX TV
*Jurassic World: Camp Crustaceous
*Ratched – Season 1 – 9 episodes based on Nurse Ratchet from One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
*Dragon’s Dogma – Season 1 – 7 episodes Videogames, Anime
*Challenger: The Final Flight – 4 episodes Docuseries
Who let the dogs out? Harley rides her Joker sled in an episode of Harley Quinn on DCU
Should we start speculating what next week’s “big announcement” will be for DC Universe? Sure, I’ll bite, after the jump.
Lee made the announcement via Twitter, after congratulating DC Universe’s Doom Patrol on being renewed for Season 3. “Stay tuned next week for big news about @thedcuniverse and it’s [sic] exciting future!” Lee wrote.
My guesses? Some kind of bundling with HBO Max and/or Cinemax (see: HBO Max and DC Universe bundle is a good idea – Merging? No, here’s why) and/or reduced subscription pricing or expanded comics access (perhaps reducing the window from one year to six months for new titles to show up on DCU) for the unlimited comic book reading experience.
Whatever the announcement will be, it’s kind of odd that they didn’t bring it during DCFanDome on Saturday 9/12? I mean, that was the perfect platform, date and time. A week later seems off (?) All we heard was Doom Patrol news (see: Doom Patrol greenlit for season 3 exclusively on HBO Max, no love for DCU continues). Good news there, but expected we’d hear Harley Quinn season 3 was being greenlit.
Although a criminally bad decision if it doesn’t happen, we can rule out a HQ Season 3 greenlight announcement since WarnerMedia has already stated there will be no new original shows on DCU, so it must have something to do with just how committed they are to DCU going forward (see: Jim Lee on DC Universe: “It’s definitely not going away”)
Anybody else want to guess what this news will be? The comments are waiting below.
I’ve watched a few episodes of season one (on DCU, ironically) and from what little I saw, it’s a weird, wacky and fun superhero show. Nice to see Brendan Fraser again, too. It’s on my list to return and watch more episodes, maybe even formally reviewing it here someday.
That Doom Patrol would become exclusive to HBO Max comes as little surprise as scripted originals have increasingly been moved off of DC Universe. “The original content that is on DCU is migrating to HBO Max. Truthfully, that’s the best platform for that content,” DC’s Jim Lee told THR last month. “The amount of content you get, not just DC, but generally from WarnerMedia, is huge and it’s the best value proposition. … We feel that is the place for that.”
WarnerMedia hasn’t made a decision on renewing the adult animated Harley Quinn show, but reports that it is being enjoyed by a new audience of subscribers on HBO Max. Keep watching it, friends, that will help WarnerMedia budget for a third and perhaps fourth season of HQ.
Although expected, it’s disappointing to see DC Universe just pushed further and further into the shadows.
