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“Watching television shouldn’t be this hard,” she lamented.
we subscribed to Hulu. Or was that Tubi? The reason we have Disney+ is because the only way we could view Hamilton when the mov- ie became available was to sign up for a one-month subscription, which we could cancel at any time. If we remembered.
room has three separate re- motes: one for cable, one for the streaming service and one to switch from ca- ble to the streaming service. Sometimes I grab the wrong device. The other day I spent 10 minutes pressing buttons to locate a basketball game I wanted to see. In my de- fense, I got distracted by the noise of the garage door going up and down.
PATERNITY WARD
D. L. Stewart
FThis Will Push Your Buttons
aced with a monthly cable bill that had swollen to $382,
The other day I spent 10 minutes pressing buttons to locate a basketball game I wanted to see. In my defense, I was distracted by the noise of the garage door going up and down.
New York Times columnist Ann Carrns took steps to reduce it and eventually got it down to $230. All it took was a time-consuming mar- athon of research, obstacles and options.
The reality, of course, is that we’ ll probably nev- er return to a time when television appeared on our black and white screens free of charge, the only viewing options were ABC, CBS and NBC, and the hardest deci- sion was who should get off the couch and walk across the living room to change the channel.
We’ve tried to solve the show-finding problem by writing down the times and locations of the ones we like to watch, but we keep misplacing the list. My wife suggested taping it to the remote control, but we have five of those in three differ- ent rooms. Somewhere.
So while I sympathize with Ms. Carrns’ lament, I have problems of my own. The latest hot new show is a series called The Gilded Age and I need to start looking for it now before it goes off the air.
Granted, programs may not have been all that great back then, but at least we knew how to find them.
Now I not only don’t know how much we’ re pay- ing, but I don’t know what we’re paying for. Or, where to find it if I did. Evenings we used to spend watching a favorite show now are spent trying to remember where it was the last time we saw it.
The television in our front
Was it on broadcast, ca- ble or streaming? Channel 2 or Channel 1788? HBO or Showtime? Netflix or Ama- zon? Was Ted Lasso on Ap- ple TV+ or Paramount+? Do we even get Paramount+?
All of this confusion is self-inflicted, of course, fueled by the fear of being out of the loop if we haven’t watched the latest hot new shows. So to watch Only Murders in the Building,
The author laments how challenging it’s become to locate your favorite TV show, let alone find the right remote. PHOTO COURTESY SIMPSON33, GETTY IMAGES