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Hulu Reviews Summary

Hulu's reputation is marked by a diverse content library and the appeal of timely access to popular TV shows and movies, which many customers appreciate. However, significant concerns have emerged regarding technical performance, including frequent buffering, app freezes, and navigation difficulties, leading to frustration among users. Additionally, issues with customer service, such as unresponsive support and billing discrepancies, have been highlighted. The overall sentiment indicates that while Hulu offers valuable content, persistent operational problems and a growing dissatisfaction with ad frequency may push customers toward alternative streaming services.

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Germany
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Hulu sucks
October 30, 2019

They have more ads than regular tv. Not worth it at all, you can't watch anything without an 90 second ad every 5 min. " new shows" ha. Hulu is trash and not worth it, trust me, you would be better off buying YouTube tv.

Date of experience: October 29, 2019
North Carolina
1 review
4 helpful votes
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NO CHECKS
October 27, 2019

Hula was supposed to cancel my service but they continued to pull money out of my account at the bank. After talking to the support team on this issue 35 minutes he let me know hulu could not send me a refund because they cant mail a check. I had to close the account because of over drafts, hula kept on pulling out that was not accounted for. I asked the hula person if the company was so big that they could"nt drop a check in in the mail. Hulu has now refused to let me talk to a member of team lead or supervision. This is the worse company for service, I paid my bills, they continued to take money from me and let me know that was all they needed from me. By refusing to pay back what they owed me is really not a good business. I have to wonder how many other folks have had this same experience with them. I even told them I had to close my account because Hulu would not stop withdrawing money from my account. I'm a person living off of a monthly social security check, and they don't care that it caused my account to overdraw. I read the review guidelines, this is not meant to be hateful in any way but I do want to make it clear that higher level of staff refused to speak to me and the guy said thats all we can do for you.

Date of experience: October 27, 2019
Nebraska
1 review
0 helpful votes
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We switched to Hulu because we stayed in a camper for a short time between closing on houses. We decided to never go back to regular cable. My husband and I love sports and there is never a shortage. For example, college football... Hulu plays even the smaller school games like Northern iowa vs South Dakota. For the base price, Hulu provides all the normal basic cable channels plus a few more for a good price. Since we didn't have good internet service while in the camper, we know that you don't need top speeds to watch Hulu. After approximately 6 months, I have no complaints. However, we have all newer smart TVs and use antennas as well so we can easily switch back and forth. Hulu does provide a couple local channels, but we like having the option of all local.

Date of experience: October 27, 2019
Nevada
4 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Very Glitchy
October 27, 2019

I've been a Hulu live customer for about 3 months. I'm very surprised how unreliable their service is. FREQUENT crashes especially when watching live sporting events. I'm ready to cancel and try someone else. It's like they don't have the technology completely figured out yet or that their servers are inadequate for all of their subscribers. I also don't appreciate Hulu acting like everything is okay by not publicly addressing customer's concerns. Everything is NOT okay.

Date of experience: October 27, 2019
District of Columbia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Keeps buffering
October 26, 2019

Worst app ever! Only app that has to buffer every 30 seconds. Yes internet connection is fine, yes all other apps don't have issues.
YEET fix your shiz and get it together already!

Date of experience: October 26, 2019
Pennsylvania
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Hulu Sucks!
October 25, 2019

Constant issues! Paying $65 a month! For WHAT? Tired of calling them and they will tell me, oh it's your internet or your tv! I have the highest speed and new!

Date of experience: October 25, 2019
New Jersey
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I have Roku's at my home and business and now I can only watch Hulu at one location or the other. What does it matter since only one tv can stream at a time anyway? On to the next guy. You're a stinker Hulu

Date of experience: October 24, 2019
Georgia
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Hulu sucks $#*!
October 20, 2019

Hulu sucks asshulu sucks asshulu sucks asshulu sucks asshulu sucks asshulu sucks asshulu sucks asshulu sucks asshulu sucks asshulu sucks asshulu sucks asshulu sucks asshulu sucks asshulu sucks asshulu sucks asshulu sucks $#*!

Date of experience: October 20, 2019
Virginia
2 reviews
14 helpful votes
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Horrible ripoff
October 20, 2019

The other reviews here nail it. Stream breaks up at crucial moments of a game. Endless ads that are not synchronized with live action, error messages for no reason. Just way overpriced garbage.

Date of experience: October 19, 2019
California
6 reviews
38 helpful votes
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Keeps crashing and giving error messages and just hanging, stuttering and all the things we all hate about streaming, they are all collected here at Hulu in a nice little package to annoy you. All of that while Netflix works perfectly fine and my internet speed is 20x required speed for streaming.

Another horrible thing about it is if you have a subscription that is not their full subscription (like the ones that come with other services) the ads are just horrible. For example, I watch an episode of some show and then I want to go and see something again in that same episode - the ads HAVE TO BE WATCHED AGAIN to just see something you missed.

Date of experience: October 19, 2019
Pennsylvania
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Ads ads and more ads
October 19, 2019

I paid for the full streaming service. What I actually paid for was the right for Hulu to force me to watch ads, tons of commercials. In addition, the shows offered weren't great. If you love being forced to watch commercials you will LOVE Hulu. Awful!

Date of experience: October 18, 2019
Kansas
2 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Hulu seems to especially struggle with Sunday PM streaming on NBC; also lots of trouble with the mobile iPhone app.

Date of experience: October 6, 2019
South Carolina
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Bad
October 6, 2019

I'm very mad because I want to watch the Cowboys game but I can't because hulu says it's unavailable even though it is the game of the week and it's letting me watch the Broncos game but we don't care about the Broncos game. I Will be picking Netflix over hulu from now on.

Date of experience: October 6, 2019
California
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Consistently crashes. Often refuses to load the movie or show that I select. Repeated error messages. And it's not my connection because Netflix, Vudu, and Prime work just fine. Fix ya $hit, Hulu, or I walk. I'm sick of it.

Date of experience: September 29, 2019
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Hulu suck
September 30, 2019

Hulu promise to stream all the new show don't go for that they show 3 or 4 time then skip 3 times again enough there customers service is a joke they never have the right answer the answer you get is Hulu could not by the whole season from the network witch is funny if the shows has been going for ages why can't they buy? They show season 11 and season 12 or but nothing before what a bunch BS I'm so done with Hulu I hope someone will take over I believe if you promise something better then NETFLIX enough is enough HULU Time to say goodbye for good

Date of experience: September 29, 2019
Ohio
1 review
1 helpful vote
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At least 6 days a month since I got this service a year ago, live tv locks up, fails, buffers constantly. Went up to 48.99. Customer service non-existent. All other services through Firestick work fine. Will be cancelling soon.No, it is NOT better than nothing. Pluto is free on Firestick and I will get a broadcast antenna and be done.

Date of experience: September 23, 2019
Nebraska
7 reviews
17 helpful votes
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No ads
September 24, 2019

I get Hulu during the fall/spring season of new shows each year-have done this about 3 years now. Then I disconnect it til next fall. I have subscribed to the level WITHOUT ADS. There is a specific box to check to do this--I believe it is a few cents more but is well worth it. I have never been pushed to sign up for the yearly price. I do agree that their setup could be a lot more user friendly. I also use Netflix, Britbox, CBS & sometimes Acorn. Note: I watch all these programs on a no frills laptop without any problems.

Date of experience: September 23, 2019
Alabama
13 reviews
10 helpful votes
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It's no Netflix
September 23, 2019

Hulu isn't horrible but I wish there were more options similar to Netflix where when paid for like Netflix there's no commercials, so to me Hulu is not as good as Netflix but only because of the commercials because it's a paid service like Netflix but cost a little more and literally takes extra time from you also!

Date of experience: September 23, 2019
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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New Tv series
September 22, 2019

I joined hula last year and im suppose to get shows from NBC, ABC FOX AND FREEFORM AND A NUMBER OF OTHER CHANNELS.
But they are not letting the 11.99 customers see new tv series coming out this year and cant watch blacklist either. They are trying to force people to get their tv service for 44.99 and i had it for a few months and i only use about 7 of the channels. So forget you hula for i thought disney wasnt going to be as greedy as others but i was wrong. And i dont care about the new programs and you have a lousy 44.99 service with alot of crap so no thanks

Date of experience: September 21, 2019
Arizona
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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When it comes to episodes you're on you have to remember what episode and place you're on. Its going to auto play the next episode whether or not you finished the last and half the time it's going to restart the episode or play at the very ending. Its so frustrating and it's been like this for YEARS so clearly they dont care.

Date of experience: September 19, 2019