punkassjim

1. Sign up for Hulu Plus at $10/month.
2. Get cozy with your iPad, all set to watch the Louies you’ve had in your Hulu queue for the past couple weeks.
3. Discover that the Hulu Plus app has different content from hulu.com.
4. That’s right: not more content. Different content.
5. In particular, it doesn’t have Louie.
6. Or anything else that was in your queue, or much of anything current that’s worth watching, really.
7. Cancel Hulu Plus.

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…if I’m going to watch your shows online — which clearly doesn’t bother you since Hulu is able to exist at all — if I’m going to watch them and, more importantly, give my affluent, highly marketable attention to your ads — your obnoxious, intrusive, poorly-targeted ads — what fucking business is it of yours which device I choose to do that with?

Sirs: you are already shitting in my soup. Must you take away the spoon?

I’m pretty glad I still haven’t put any real time or attention into Hulu. It seemed misguided from the start, and doesn’t seem to be getting any better. It’s a service that has plenty of “ooo shiny,” and almost no strong backbone.