If I want to rewatch a series. The auto play starts at the end of the episode. I have to delete my viewing data every time I watch a series. This is sub-par programming. This is across all platforms to watch hulu. I'm highly annoyed that I can't just leave the TV on, and it will auto play properly. I spend the same amount using any service, and I dont have this issue.
It's the same ads for depression, allergy, eczema, weight loss and HIV prescription meds over and over and over again, an ad within the first 5 minutes of the start of the movie or show, if you rewind past an already watched ad spot, another ad! If you're in the middle of a very tense or important part of your show, no worries here's a 2 min ad! 2 mins before the end, another ad! Subtitles are slow or non-existent, and the app likes to log me out for no apparent reason in the middle of watching
The "choose your own ad" experience is really annoying and needs to be forgotten about. Just play an ad and be done with it. I'm not paying attention to them either way. This just slows down how fast I get back to what I was watching. And before an automated message suggests upgrading to the ad free version, no, I'm not paying more for a service when the current price I pay should already have no ads.
The app never works without an issue. it doesn't save your place, you have to rewatch commercials, it freezes and dumps you out. Subtitles don't work properly. it's always a problem. I've tried every suggested solution and nothing works. I don't have the issue with any other app. I'll just watch them. I cancelled - not worth the headache.
It was difficult to watch The Handmaid's Tale because the subtitles are out of sync often and parts of the dialogue were hushed with lots of loud noise. Plus you can't pause a show within the last few minutes or it'll restart the episode when you try to resume. It also often kicks you off saying they're having difficulty playing this title, but it'll usually play after refreshing. They do have a lot of great shows. Ad free... with exceptions. The user interface has improved since my original sub
More commercials than programs. At the end/ beginning of every show there's 2-3 commercials over a minute each 2 minutes before the end, then again in between, and a third time 2 minutes in to the next episode. Not to mention the several times in middle of the show and never on predetermined commercial breaks. The app also skips around and starts over and makes you watch even more ads than what's reprogrammed. Every time you close you lose episode progress as well. Absolutely terrible app.
It has some decent stuff on it, but the user interface seems to be lacking very badly. Almost every other time I turn my TV on and try to click the Hulu app. It crashes while I'm trying to scroll through shows and then it'll just randomly crash while you're watching. It's almost like every other streaming service could easily figure out how to not make this happen, but Hulu is making it seem like it is rocket science. They are turning it into rocket science to not constantly crash.
I have the ad free sub. Come to find out that's not truly what it sounds like. It's ad free on hulu original content. When you ask them they tell you all third party has ads. They give a link to an article that says third party has ads before and after the episode. That would be ok if it was true, but we get 3-4 ads a time lasting almost 4 min long. So ad free is really not ad free.
I love paying for a streaming service with ads - it reminds me of the cable service I got rid of! Having my recently watched shows at the top was too convenient - good thing they moved it to a spot below a comical amount of recommendations. Casting was WAY too reliable. Thankfully, I haven't been able to use this feature since the recent update. This, humiliatingly for Hulu, has been an on/off problem for over 7 YEARS. Thankfully, the Chromecast app doesn't function, so Netflix stays on my TV
I love Hulu, got a subscription and it works great! No ads, free to watch. However.. this is being a two star rating. Let me explain why. It has logged me out of my account many times. It doesn't save sometimes when I leave out of my episodes. I let these two slide for a bit, but those are the minimum problems. Now, I can't watch any show without the show freezing up and glitching out. Nothing works, logging out doesn't help and it only streams good on my TV...
