We just spent an hour in my house trying to get my wife access to Season 5 of Yellowstone. She had watched earlier seasons on some combination of Peacock and Paramount Plus, but could find Season 5 on neither. She was particularly upset because two of her four sisters, with whom she discusses the show, and talks to every day, have told her they already saw multiple episodes, and my wife was feeling left out.
This is where I get activated. I tried to get into this show, and could not get past the first few episodes, and I know I watched them on Peacock. I was certain I had read, here and or elsewhere, that more recent seasons were streaming on P+ As a function of some complicated sequence. But I confirmed it was not on P+. A little Googling revealed that Yellowstone currently can not be streamed, but was available on Paramount Network, which, it turns out, is not really an earlier version of Paramount Plus, but a later iteration of Spike TV (I’m sure this has been discussed here, but I would have only skimmed it). So at first it seemed that if we had not recorded Yellowstone episodes as they aired, there was no way to watch (until, I suppose, they eventually show up on Peacock, then P+?). That led to a dark few minutes for my wife (and for me, for failing to solve this problem). But then I downloaded the Paramount App to my IPad, and found that if I signed on through my provider (YouTubeTV) I was able to access previously aired S5 episodes. This led to premature celebrations though, as when my wife tried to access the app on her phone, we kept getting a message that our provider had not authorized access to the episodes. Again in the chilly doghouse, I was motivated to keep at it, and eventually found a way to sign on through the Google App. My wife is now watching the first five (I think) episodes of S5, so she will be able to talk to her sisters without shame tomorrow. But this whole thing has left me wondering why a third tier network would not be doing a better job of using one of the most popular shows on television to grow itself by making it easy for people to find it and join. Seems like it would be easy to allow us to click on something in P+ to go to Paramount. Or, why is there even such a thing as Paramount, at least as a thing that lives outside the Paramount Plus App as one of their many channels? -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkY%2BUzDy8ZH3jOdfDmYxO1NbP%2Be%2ByeHEAUrnMGDgELRWuaA%40mail.gmail.com.
