[metamet]

You're making me really want to start a rewatch.

It's shocking how few people have seen this show, let along watched it. Part of that probably has to do with how inaccessible it is on streaming. It's only readily available on AMC+. And no one has AMC+.

This is one of those shows that would likely shoot to the top if Netflix got the rights to it and even did a mild push. It's genuinely peak prestige TV.

[knappe]

That is where I originally watched it. It was on Netflix at one point. And now, it is not. Which is most of the problem with streaming service in general.

[walterbell]

40-episode box set is $30 ($16 today) on Apple TV.

[Altidude]

Also free to watch on The Roku Channel: https://therokuchannel.roku.com/details/523a290683575d449483...

[gzread]

Also free to pirate for LLM training purposes

[dzink]

And just like that, their sales skyrocketed.

[Gormo]

Apple TV is distributing physical media?

[walterbell]

Scroll past the subscription options to find the full series listing. "Box Set" licensing terminology is as anachronistic as "Seasons", but both are used in Apple TV product listings for non-subscription streaming media purchases.

[Gormo]

I'm not seeing anything anachronistic about either term. "Seasons" is absolutely aligned to the way television series are still produced and distributed. "Box Set" implies physical media. Using the latter term to refer to something else sounds like a case of false advertising.

[walterbell]

Apple offers refunds for unwanted digital purchases, and this description in Apple TV app:

  When you purchase access to this item, you can permanently download it to your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or PC. Once downloaded, you can access this without an internet connection, and Apple can't remove it from your device.

[Gormo]

Wait, so it's actually a standalone, DRM-free download? If that's the case, then while the term is still somewhat misleading, it's considerably less so than I assumed.

[tomjakubowski]

With the advent of digital music, "record album" morphed from referring to the physical medium, to referring to the recording that would be put on it. I think something similar is happening for "box set".

[Gormo]

Not sure I'd agree. "Record album" never specifically referred to anything physical, and just means "collection of recordings", regardless of what medium is used for them.

The term "album" by itself did originally refer to something physical -- a collection of photos bound into a book by a glue made from egg whites ("albumen") -- but the semantic shift to "album" meaning any kind of collection offered as a single unit happened well before "record albums" were a thing.

But the term "box set" has not experienced a comparable semantic shift, and still implies the presence of an actual box.

[dep_b]

Not in Europe?

[mrcarrot]

It's available on Prime Video (at least on amazon.de). For a long while they would only sell access to season 1, but I've just checked now and all 4 seasons are available at the moment.

[dep_b]

Thanks that’s correcr

[arethuza]

It does seem to be available on ITVX in the UK.

[runamuck]

I recommend AMC+ if you like horror because you also get Shudder. I get to watch Joe Bob Brigg's "Last Drive In."

Plus all the Prestige Y2K Television - Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Walking Dead.

[SubiculumCode]

It used to be available as part of Prime. I've watched that series 3 times. It is very good..one of my all time faves, actually.

[echelon_musk]

> It's shocking how few people have seen this show, let along watched it

Huh?

[latexr]

I think they mean “seen” in the sense of “know it exists”, as in seeing it advertised on a billboard or the sea of thumbnails in a streaming service.