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(Not to mention a myriad of niche platforms that were also introduced in the past few years.)īut why can’t they all get along and let us have one big, happy streaming service? Well, like everything else, it’s all about the Benjamins, baby. Since then, the streaming service market has been an ever-evolving clusterfuck of new streamers rolling out one after the other: Disney+ in 2019, HBO Max and Peacock in 2020, and then the full-fledged metamorphosis of CBS All Access into the far more epic Paramount+ in 2021. That’s the year that Wired marks as the start of the streaming wars, and it’s also the year that the internet had a complete meltdown over Friends potentially leaving Netflix - long before equally panic-stricken stans had to overcome The Office's havoc-wreaking departure as well. To understand why, exactly, the “To Watch” list in your Letterboxd needs to bend to the will of whatever streaming service decides to play host to a particular movie, let’s roll things back to 2018 for a second.
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But whether your service of choice is Netflix or Hulu, ol' reliable probably doesn't have every single film you want to watch, especially when titles are constantly flip-flopping on which service they call home. Most of us have our go-to movie streaming service - the one that's been inserted into our monthly budget alongside obviously comparable essentials like groceries and rent.