HuluReviews 1,179

My favorite part of Hulu right now is that it's free with a student Spotify account. They produce their own shows and release new shows on air the day after they come out so its easy to keep up with tv without cable. Not many previous seasons, but I use it more to keep up rather than binge watch. The commercials arent the best, but Im not paying an extra charge and they have to make money somehow. Overall, I definitely recommend especially if you are a student already paying for a spotify account.

I dont understand why the people in charge at Hulu cannot get it through their thick skulls That in order to compete, they need to make every episode of every show available. For example, I want to watch American ninja warrior, but they only have the current season available. Why would I start out watching the current season when I have never even seen an episode? Wouldnt it make sense to start watching it from the very beginning so that I can see how the show involves? The same thing with shows that have character development and evolve from season to season. Why would I start watching Chicago fire if only the current season was available? Its almost like a gimmick To get you to start watching the live Episodes, but their logic is so backwards. If Ive never even seen the show before and all I can watch is the current season or maybe the most recent season, then why would I start watching the live episodes? Id be confused as to whats going on in the plot because Ive never watched the previous seasons. And thats why they get one star. Maybe someday theyll figure it out.

The constant pushing of ads combined with the instability of the site leads to this being the most frustrating online video service out there. The constant freezes sometimes have you watch the numerous 90-second ads several times before you're able to continue with the program. Their so-called "limited commercial interruption" is an absolute joke, and it almost completely ruins the service. The only saving grace is that it has several shows that I can't find on other platforms. Unless there are several shows that you are really into, stay away from the service. Hulu is severely lacking in every other regard.

If you're wondering why I'm back after complaining about how much I hate Hulu, I couldn't help but pay only $0.99 monthly since that was the cost if you have Spotify. Which by the way, if they could afford to hand out $0.99 subscriptions for Hulu, I'm sure they could afford to lower the amount of ads for regular paid users.

I notice the player works with HTML5/Safari now. No more Flash player or any plug-in required. Great! But.

The new interface makes no sense. I use Hulu to watch ONE show and that was the ONLY show I ever watched on Hulu. Yet, there's never a damn queue to watch the next episode. I manually have to look for it. And there's no way for me to continue the show when I visit the homepage. I have to search for the series then choose a season and an episode. Really?

On top of that, the ads are just as annoying as before. Now, I just keep an adblocker on and wait for the countdowns to finish. This case, I don't have to silence the audio or see the ads. I get they offer an ad-free option for a couple of dollars more, but that's not an option with the Spotify Hulu premium add-on situation. You're stuck with this ad-filled version. In any case, Hulu should just meet the middle price of the ad and ad-free subscription and just charge one fee. Who the f@#$ would actually PAY to watch ads? Most people would complain anyway.

SO I GOT THE SUPER HULU WITH CABLE CHANNELS LIVE TV AND NO COMMERCIALS. WHAT DO I REALLY PAY FOR COMMERCIALS WITH ALL THE SHOWS YOU PAY FOR TO WATCH MEANING ALL THE GOOD SHOWS WITH HEAVY TITLES ARE GOING TO HAVE COMMERCIALS AFTER EACH SCENE. THE STREAMING IS HORRIBLE, IF I CANT STREAM ON DATA WITH NO PROBLEMS YOU HAVE HORRIBLE SERVICE IN MY OPINION. I COMMUTE UP TO 2HRS A DAY ONE WAY AND I THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE GREAT FOR THE TIME TO PASS BY. THIS IS THE WORST MISTAKE I HAVE EVER MADE. I CONSTANTLY TWEET THEM AND THEY OFFER NO RESOLUTION, NO COMPENSATION NOTHING. THIS IS THEE MOST HORRIBLE SERVICE EVER. I AM CURRENTLY WAITING FOR IT TO STREAM A SHOW I WAS WATCHING. I HAVE BEEN KICKED OUT 5 TIMES AND REBOOTED MY PHONE 3 TIME AND IM STILL GETTING AN ERROR MESSAGE THAT MY PHONE DISCONNECTED DURING PLAYBACK. HULU YOU NEVER PLAYED TO BE DISCONNECTED. STUPID STUPID STUPID...

I would give this company NO STARS if I could...
How does Hulu take my money today 4/24/2018 this morning. I decide to cancel tonight on 4/24/2018 and they say well you already watched more than 5x in the month of April and since you a just paid today 4/24/2018 for part of April and part of May you are still bound by the rules for watching more than 5x in April. I even asked if I can have a partial refund for not watching in May. Again the answer is no because the rest of April is attached. What a lame way to keep my money and not refund it.

I used to love HULU - it was so user friendly, quick and at a glance could see my options and what I would watch. Now it takes so much longer and so many more steps to get to the page where I can then scroll for days to get to what I want to watch and even then I don't know if there is a new episode yet. I find myself avoiding HULU now.
Why would you take something that everyone loved and take away all that was great about it? Is a Netflix undercover spy on your design team? It sure has gotten me to watch Netflix more.

First let's me say Hulu is not user friendly, npr is it a consumer base streaming service. Hulu is a you pay self serving streaming service. They would like you to think you pay for a service to stream movies and TV, bit they ate just another marketing service who attracts people in to thinking you are buying a service for you and your family, but your not! Let's say you setting up your profile, they ask you name, age, gender. Why do they need this for TV? Has a she approprate switch why age then? Well lets say you put to days date in the set up, of will automaticlly turn switch to kid appropriate shows and look your profile so you can't even change it. Why there is a age switch? Because they want to know this info do they can collect marketing info to sell on you. So you pay them to watch content you pay for while they track your info to sell it. In a since your paying someone to track and make money on you! There is no need for this and by the way then try and change your profile OMG this app is a big pos and now I know why so many bad reviews because it makes money on commercials, data collection, and from you. What to you get a big fat headache dealing with a service you think would be designed for the user who wants to watch shows that's it, but no just another pay me for what Hulu wants to do. Anyone else think you should be getting what you pay for? I am personally sick of crOp companies that think we are all dumb and will ing to pay for this carp. Now I also think there ate many other issues with Hulu but a lot are already covered here so not going to mention, but one should see how those issues got into what I am saying and you now know why those problems exist also because they ate not a service company working to give you a product of good quality, but trick you to pay them to run there back side business selling all they can about you. Just another self serving scrappy company working on your dime.