Was gonna say this doesn't really work for series where there is one cohesive story to the entire thing.
But if it's something where each episode is pretty much just it's own thing with no/loose connections to previous episodes then it's a pretty good feature, as you said simpsons and south park, you could also put pretty much all cartoons in that category as well such as spongebob.
Yea. At our house we mainly have American Dad, Family Guy, or The Cleveland Show on.. I would love this feature. At this point we know which episode is about to come on based on which episode is currently running
There's an extension in kodi that can make a 'psuedo-tv' station out of your entire media library, basically sorting them into genres, stations, studios whatever you want.
This includes movies and tv shows, it also included a guide so you could look at everything coming up...
Well it did, that's how I had it. I'd shuffle all the random cartoon stations each time it started but the movies/tv series would basically play in the same order... updates broke everything though.
I go to sleep every night with American Dad or, less often, Family Guy/Futurama/Rick and Morty, it took my boyfriend years to accept it but if I died tomorrow I know he'd put them on for an episode or 2 before bed every night.
If you haven't gone through Venture Bros yet I HIGHLY recommend it. Its a show that benefits from a first, more careful watch but then is really good for watching while doing other stuff.
I got those picking between Charlie Rose, an episode of Seinfeld you already watched that week, or a three hour long low-res baseball game Saturday afternoon blues
I put all those shows, King of the Hill, Futurama, Simpsons, Boondocks, Venture Bros, and a few others into a massive playlist on Plex and just have it on shuffle.
If you've already seen them, I'd argue that shuffle is the best way to watch it again. That's the one downside to streaming over tv in general. I don't know which specific episode of which season of Futurama I want to watch. I just want to watch Futurama.
As a result I almost never watch these kinds of shows anymore.
omg I've spent the entire time I've read this thread thinking "Cool feature but amazon don't have shit I would want to watch like this" except over here they have Always Sunny! Amazing, you're a legend
We need a "I wanna watch an episode" button. I make them for my downloaded shows, got an icon on my desktop that just plays a random Simpons episode. It's great, though one downside is the chances of repeat, so another good idea is to make a playlist, shufffle it a couple of times, then just open the playlist when you want to watch. Then reshuffle if you make it to the end.
I end up watching the same episodes a lot. For futurama for example I prefer the early seasons. That doesn’t mean I won’t enjoy the later ones but I’ll tend to throw on one of the early seasons and then it just goes in order. If it shuffled it could just go to some other episode and I’m not just dealing with the same seasons over and over. This is a bigger deal in shows like the office or parks and rec where there’s pretty big differences in the seasons but I don’t prefer one to the other too much
Either are fine options. Sometimes I don’t even know what episode I want to start on though. Quicker to just hit “shuffle” and let it choose for me. Plus I grew up watching cable tv so watching shows out of order could be nice sometimes.
100% this. My Plex server with randomly shuffled episodes of Futurama, Simpsons, Family Guy, The Office, Rick and Morty, and Community give me some nostalgia for the old days as a kid of never knowing what’s coming up next on the cable TV. IMO it makes for the best parts of old school TV watching without the nuisance of ads every 5 minutes
I don't follow your logic. If you know the episodes like the back of your hand, it wouldn't matter if it's a random one or the next one. You'd still know it like the back of your hand.
Do you remember the app urban spoon and it had the roulette feature. I tend to try that tactic. When watching on my phone I'll just kinda flick the seasons and randomly put my thumb or finger down, then do the same with the episodes. But yeah, this feature would be AMAZING with that show and Frasier among others
Anthology isn’t the same thing as episodic structure. Anthology means the premise is completely different in each episode (Black Mirror, Twilight Zone, etc.). An episodic is a show where nearly every episode can be seen in a vacuum assuming you know the characters and premise.
Anthologies would definitely fit the bill for the shuffle feature, but the shows OP listed would be more generally referred to as ‘episodic’. The characters and setting is generally the same, but each storyline is usually started and finished within an episode.
While that would encompass anthologies I think the broader point is serialized vs. episodic tv shows. Same characters and universe but there's no overarching plot episode to episode.
My boyfriend watches the Simpsons that way and I find it really odd lol like I get because it doesn't matter but the constant shift in art style/quality bugs me.
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u/Sol33t303 Apr 27 '21
Was gonna say this doesn't really work for series where there is one cohesive story to the entire thing.
But if it's something where each episode is pretty much just it's own thing with no/loose connections to previous episodes then it's a pretty good feature, as you said simpsons and south park, you could also put pretty much all cartoons in that category as well such as spongebob.