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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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Colorado
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Not worth it! When you sign up for live tv they don't tell you that you can only watch it a few devices. When I went to watch live tv non of my devices worked with it so I payed a ton of money for something I couldn't even use. Not a good service for the amount they charge you for it.

Date of experience: June 12, 2019
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Besides a ridiculous amount of ads (that also hang and prevent you from getting back to the episode), there are so many technical issues. After I cancelled my subscription, they didn't even let me continue watching any shows for the remainder of my billing period. I'm disgusted by how terrible the entire service is. Absolutely disappointed!

Date of experience: June 7, 2019
California
1 review
3 helpful votes
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The ONLY reason I'm still paying Hulu, using their streaming service is because they are the only service that provide the shows I like. Netflix used to carry a lot of them (Archer, It's always sunny in Philadelphia, South Park. Etc.) but for whatever idiotic reason, they decided to stop letting us stream that online. Prime sucks even more. Hulu is the only one that carries these shows but they make the whole streaming experience worse than being stuck in an elevator with Al Gore for days. I can't stand them, it's the same kind of issues, time after time after time. No matter how many times I report it, how many times others report it and complain, they refuse to fix their issues.

And when they changed their user interface. God, I didn't know they could suck even more, on top of all the recurring issues.

Constant problems that won't allow streaming.
Autoplay is a joke, it works maybe 30% of the time.
User interface sucks.
The one thing they needed to do, was allow streaming. And when that's the main issue. Then what good are they?!

If only I knew somewhere else where I can stream my shows with less problems than Hulu, I'd drop them in half a heartbeat!

Date of experience: June 5, 2019
Minnesota
2 reviews
9 helpful votes
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Cancelled Hulu 30 day free trial on 28th day. Hulu billed my credit card for the following month and refused to refund the charges. Hulu claimed I was one day late to cancel, so they will not refund. I'm convinced Hulu is practicing this scam and swindling people by billing their credit card. This practice is clearly fraud. Here's the details: Purchased Roku streaming device at 8:47 p.m. on April 30,2019 (as clearly stated on my receipt). Hooked up Roku device, created an account on Hulu later that night and marked my calendar. Cancelled on May 28th and noticed Hulu was still active on May 29th at 9:15 p.m., so I immediately checked my Hulu account and found the statement "Your subscription is about to cancelCancel Date: 06/29/19" and "Billing History Last payment on: 05/29/19" and "Payment Information Payment Method MASTERCARD". I immediately contacted Hulu customer service and was informed that I opened the account on the April 27th, cancelled one day late on the 28th so they're not able to refund the charges, stating I went beyond the 30 day trial. Interesting scam to say the least! Hulu picked the wrong person to rip off.

Date of experience: June 2, 2019
Texas
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Don't bother getting this service is you move to the suburbs. We had no choice but to get a mobile internet hotspot and Hulu doesn't allow it. Very rude too when you call to complain too. We were treated like another expendable customer. Thank God for Sling, DirecTVNow and YouTube Live TV.

Date of experience: June 1, 2019
Wisconsin
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Biggest concern: we had to delete and restore our Hulu account because of a Roku issue and we were restored to someone else's account! Multiple efforts to correct were unsuccessful. Contacted Hulu phone support at 10 pm. Call was answered promptly, and their instructions resolved the issue quickly (leading us to suspect that this may be a relatively common occurrence?). That is a concerning breach of privacy. Other concerns: frequent 'failures to record'; generally non-intuitive user interface.

Date of experience: May 31, 2019
Oklahoma
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Overpriced
May 22, 2019

Way overpriced for local. $45 month should be comercal free and that is still overpriced. Plus the movie content is rearly updated

Date of experience: May 22, 2019
Texas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Great content, but not worth it because the technical difficulties are so consistent across platforms, browsers, devices, etc.

Date of experience: May 20, 2019
Tennessee
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Screen just stops for no reason, seems to be buffering then an error message "unable to playback and it may get stuck in this cycle for an hour or more. Also may suddenly rewind a show your watching for absolutely no reason. Called customer service several times and gone through the same process over and over. Unplug the firestick, clear cache, reset your router, delete and reinstall Hulu, check your Internet speed, bla bla bla nothing works. We have one of the fastest Internet services in the nation in my area so that's not it.

Date of experience: May 19, 2019
Oregon
1 review
1 helpful vote
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So today I renewed my HULU live account. Last month wife and I cancelled a showtime addition after trying the free time and then a month after that realizing it doesnt have enough different movies to keep. So I went in changed in my manage account and removed. Well yesterday I noticed a charge of 61.98. Should be 50.99. I contacted them today. And to issue me credit get this. They have to cancel my entire account refund the 61.98 and then I have to rejoin immediately and they will charge me again 50.99. The customer service person was nice and even though i told her 3 months ago we decided to cancel live tv as it was really streaming badly. We we were issued a credit immediately for that without renewing our account. I pointed this out to her and she said this was company policy. So I would be charged twice a credit to my card but I wont see that for 7 days. I told her you really want to have me burn your company down on review sites over 10.99 she said that was company policy.

Date of experience: May 18, 2019
Illinois
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Good for watching tv shows, but there are way too many commercials. And they're long, usually 90 seconds. I wouldn't pay full price for it, I only use it because I have it for 99 cents a month for a year.

Date of experience: May 10, 2019
Wisconsin
46 reviews
142 helpful votes
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Otherwise I would not have it. I could go into detail, but the one major thing that bothers me is there seems to be more adds than show time. Watch 5 minutes of a show and then you have to watch 90-120 seconds of commercials... And even though they have some content that Netflix doesn't have, this is why most consider Netflix to be better. We don't want to have to pay for a subscription and sit through the same commercials every 5 minutes!
I will not be renewing because I don't see it being work $12 a month...

Date of experience: May 8, 2019
North Carolina
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Hulu is just a waste of time and money... The time I spend watching ads and trying to fix streaming errors, I could have watched every episode in every season of friends... twice. IT NEVER resumes where I last left off and buffers FOREVER. #teamnetflix

Date of experience: May 7, 2019
South Carolina
1 review
1 helpful vote
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If you like streaming glitches, lack of availability of huge live sports events, annoying repetitive commercials unless you pay more, constantly being told you have too many users when you logged out of other devices, and a hefty price tag for what you get - go with HULU. Truthfully, it is the SAME PRICE AS CABLE particularly when you bundle cable/internet, but makes cable look good, which is hard to do.

Date of experience: May 6, 2019
Indiana
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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WORTHLESS! Purchased Hulu thru a free trail, never have been able to login in system keep stating your email/password is incorrect. Reset password twice still no luck called *******650 young lady couldn't help me at all. Kept saying your email address is wrong, I been having the same email address for 15 yrs. What a waste but you keep deducting from my bank account. So I cancelled service, no one there in person to troubleshoot.

Date of experience: April 24, 2019
West Virginia
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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Signed up for a "free" trial - just received my bank statement and it seems I was charged 6.36 for choosing the commercial free option when I signed up for my trial. Was I asked if this charge was ok? NO! Was I ever notified that a charge would occur- NOPE! I called their customer service line and got an I'm sorry and there's nothing I can do- this among many other reasons is why I cancelled my Hulu membership

Date of experience: April 22, 2019
Pennsylvania
2 reviews
7 helpful votes
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To Whom it May Concern,
At the beginning of the NFL season, I decided to create an account with Hulu in order to stream some of the games. However, I decided to cancel my account after a few weeks because I did not need to stream any more of the games and because I did not want the extra bill. After canceling my account, I was still being billed by Hulu even though my account had been deactivated. I was very confused by this so I tried contacting Hulu to get this problem fixed. It took quite a lot of work and time to get this problem resolved. However, I did not mind the time or trouble, but it was the customer service that frustrated me the most. The customer service was horrendous and one of the worst experiences that I have ever had.
I repeatedly sent emails to your headquarters and I tried calling you countless of times only to have be left on hold. You never replied to any of the emails I sent. Not having the courtesy to send an email back really speaks volumes of how you think of your customers. However as bad as not replying to my emails, the phone calls were still somehow worse. Sometimes my calls were never even answered at all in the first place and the phone would just continue to ring. It took about a dozen different calls for me to even get to interact with a real human. Eventually, my problem was fixed, but not without a tireless amount of work from myself and loads of frustration.

Date of experience: March 26, 2019
New York
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Service constantly resets to make me watch commercials after just returning from them. I can't make it through a show without it resetting multiple times. I ran Speed test and was fine, their service is the killer. STAY AWAY

Date of experience: March 25, 2019
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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During the the first round. Four teams were playing we were able to see one game the other 3 games r
Were perpetual commercials and analysis. After flipping channels for 35min. No BB games were on. I called HULU. Promptly disconnected. Called again talked with a guy for 30min. He had no clue what the NCAA BB was about and that I wanted to watch them 4 games going on. He said HULU had an issue with game suppliers TruW and one other and I would have to wait about an hour. So before I wrote this I checked the TV networks again and Nope. No games on TV.
Very disappointed with HULU. Going back to Cable can't risk it with HULU

Date of experience: March 21, 2019
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I am dismayed that anyone thought it was good idea to use an exact, what I hope is, an exact recreation of the shuttle disaster as part of the show "the first". There are certain things that should be off limits to use in any entertainment format.

Date of experience: March 20, 2019