Notable is the fact that the UI doesn’t provide you with any way to click on or enter a specific page of the results-there’s not a box where you can type in “take me to page 127 of 400.” There’s only two ways to get there by arduously clicking through every page one at a time or by finding the page number in the URL and modifying it by hand. Maybe 400 is the maximum number of pages it can load? Who’s to say? You may be thinking “but 16 × 400 equals 6,400, not 9,392,” and you would be correct-but I can only tell you the information that Amazon displays. Each page is (insanely) broken up into 16 movies, a choice so random that it makes my brain want to crawl out my ears to escape. That represented 9,120 titles at the time of my results, although at the time of my writing this, that number is now 9,392.
#GAY MOVIES ON AMAZON PRIME STREAMING TV#
With TV shows disabled, if only because the first page immediately offered “ Psych season 2” as a drama.Īfter setting those parameters, I am presented with no fewer than 400 pages of films that are tagged as “drama” on Prime Video. With the setting of “included with Prime”, While browsing the “drama” genre on Prime Video, Now let’s examine a single genre, and see what kind of results we get.īrowsing Drama Films on Amazon Prime Videoįor the sake of reproducibility, I got these results:
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Case in point: Set it to “newest arrivals” while browsing the drama genre and the first page contains the 1986 Chinese ninja film Shadow Killers Tiger Force.
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“Newest arrivals” is obviously useless, considering that it includes every random, zero-budget, direct-to-VOD film that Amazon picks up in any given month, which is a lot of them. Once you do accomplish this, you’re given two options for sorting thousands of films-“featured” or “newest arrivals.” The “featured” option is the default, arranging the films by whatever arcane, unhinged method has created the disaster you see before you. Right off the bat, the user interface is very difficult to navigate, forcing you to go multiple layers deep to find complete film listings in various genres.
#GAY MOVIES ON AMAZON PRIME STREAMING PC#
I’ll be giving examples of how broken this system is on both web browsers and the Amazon Prime Video streaming app, but let’s start by assuming you’re trying to browse this library via your PC or Mac web browser of choice. It’s a study in excess, terrible movies and organizational disasters that is such a mess, it becomes positively comedic. You will likely leave mystified as to how Amazon could possibly be employing such a thoroughly, completely broken system. I’m about to show you how deep this rabbit hole goes. It’s the entire reason why we publish lists of the best films available on streaming services such as Amazon-because it’s not just “inconvenient” to browse them it’s borderline impossible. Thanks to a massive library that is overflowing with thousands of bargain bin, zero-budget films that no other service would want to touch with a 10-foot pole, the average user needs the digital equivalent of a sherpa guide just to find the few legitimate movies worth watching. Strike that: None of the other services are 10% as difficult to browse. None of the other major streaming services are half as difficult to browse in a way that is logical and helpful. It’s always going to be easier to search for a specific film than it is to browse through the library to find something of interest-this is true of pretty much any streaming service.īut Amazon Prime Video is in an entirely other class, in terms of its inscrutability. A lot of streaming services have issues when it comes to “browsing.” Bad user interfaces abound.