6/17/2023 0 Comments Facebook watchStars: Xaria Dotson, Dempsey Bryk, Brad Beyer, Tommy Hestmark, Midori Francis, Wayne Pére, Quincy Dunn-Baker, Haskiri Velazquez (And if you use your time logged in to clear out your personal data while simultaneously locking every third party app you can think of out of connecting to your account, all the better.) It does not, alas, include a full blurb for the very brief wandering oddball of a series, Extra Innings with Bill Murray & Brian Doyle-Murray, but really, what more could we say to sell you on it than that title? Nothing, that’s what.īill and Brian and baseball aside, we hope you find at least a couple series on this list worth checking out. The list includes long seasons and short ones, comedy and drama, scripted shows and unscripted ones. This will filter out all the non-Facebook Original video noise and leave you with just the good stuff.īelow, we have picked out 12 of our favorite series-most of them scripted, but not all-to give you a sense of the variety of things Facebook Watch currently has to offer. That said, if you do have a Facebook account (even a ghost one will do), navigating to and within Watch is much easier: From the homepage, click Videos on Watch (in the lefthand dashboard column), then click the purple Shows link at the top of that page’s lefthand dashboard. Best of all, as long as you’re tenacious in your efforts to find the full episodes in the I Spy grids of each show’s full video library (which you can get to using the direct links included below), they’re all free to watch, whether you have a Facebook account or not. Whatever your read on Facebook Watch’s place in the streaming video landscape, the fact remains that with several years of original content production now under its belt, the social media streamer is finally host to some really choice original shows, many of which thrive in the social-first atmosphere of the Facebook ecosystem. Although I suppose the fact that interesting art doesn’t have much of a profit margin in an attention economy is, in itself, a distressing revelation. (On the other other hand, of course, the fact that Facebook the Soulless Data Miner has made Facebook Watch’s innovative original content so impossible to watch is almost heartening, like a signal that here, at least, might be one corner of civil society’s digital gallows that doesn’t exist primarily to milk you dry of all your personal data. You’d think they’d have handled their own pivot a bit better. On the other hand, Facebook’s literal thing for years was ruthlessly incentivizing other media companies to pivot to video. On the one hand, the UX design for Facebook Watch is so exasperatingly arcane that one can hardly be blamed for not knowing that Facebook Watch exists, or for not understanding which short videos constitute a Facebook Original, and which are just clips promoting longer series on other, non-Facebook platforms. My friends!!! The show you like, you are watching it literally right now. And I’m not being hyperbolic here-its reputation as a streaming platform is so bad that actual viewers making actual comments in the various comment threads running alongside actual episodes from multiple original series on this very list chimed in to ask any number of variations on the question, “Where can I watch this? Is it on Hulu, or Netflix?” Of all the streaming services currently available, it’s entirely likely that Facebook Watch is the last one you might think to turn on when looking for something to watch.
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