Cosmopolitan USA – September 2019

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And more expensive.

Here’s your hack.

By EMMA BATY

Your

streaming

habit

is

about to get

a lot more

complicated

Your love affair with binge watching

might have started simply enough, with

a borrowed Netflix password back in

seventh grade, but these days, it looks

more like mainlining Netflix...and

Hulu and HBO and Amazon—every

single day. (Hey, it’s the golden age of

television, right?) And just when you

thought you had this whole streaming

thing figured out, the universe rolls out

FOUR NEW PLATFORMS, each duking

it out for your $ and your eyeballs. So,

what, are you supposed to shell out

your entire paycheck just to keep up?

Nah. “Selective streaming” is the name

of your game. Start with this primer on

the fate of your favorite shows, which

services you actually need, and what

the hell this means for the future of TV.

DISNEY+

APPLE TV+

HBO MAX

NBCUNIVERSAL

“I got access to

my brother’s Hulu

account (he stupidly

uses the same password

for everything) but didn’t

want him to know, so I

named my profile

‘+Add New Profile.’”

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