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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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California
1 review
5 helpful votes
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The new face of hulu
September 22, 2018

Terrible. Just terrible. Anything new takes some adjustment, but with how easy it is to watch the shows I'm looking for by just opening the Network apps, and other free site options. It hasn't become worth it for me to continue to pay for Hulu with the new lay out, it's just more of an annoyance than anything.

Date of experience: September 22, 2018
Texas
1 review
7 helpful votes
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I am utterly exhausted with the agenda Hulu tries to push on its viewers. I started to watch a Hulu original series today called The First. I had gotten to the 3rd episode and was liking the show this far then boom a lesbian couple has to be in the show. Or particularly scen that is thown in to trailer to the LGBT community. I'm tired of this. I can't watch anything anymore now a day with out liberal progressive agendas being forced in my media and entertainment. The show is about sify space exploration to mars. What on earth is the point of putting pro LGBT scene in this show. I'm done with Hulu and they won't get another dime from me. I refuse to be forced to accept there agendas.

Date of experience: September 21, 2018
Florida
1 review
6 helpful votes
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I HATE HULU
September 21, 2018

I am now going to every site I can to leave bad reviews about HULU. I hate them with a burning vengeance. They are on of those sites that purposefully makes their service hard to cancel so you accidentally stay signed up with them charging even when you thought you canceled! I tried the site for the free trial, realized they were basically sub par netflix and then attempted to cancel. Talked to their customer service people and they were rude as hell about the whole thing! I am very angry!

Date of experience: September 20, 2018
North Carolina
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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Unprofessional Call Center
September 18, 2018

Trying to get Hulu on my TV. I needed help with that also needing them to take my credit card number they hung up on me two times in a row and they said they had a problem, I fully agree... laughing in the background talking about things that had nothing to do with helping me a new customer! Hulu needs to address this completely unprofessional behavior! This is an understatement... I let her lie did not subscribe to their service I know that I'm only one person very disappointed

Date of experience: September 17, 2018
Indiana
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Very dissapointed!
September 18, 2018

I have never had so many random issues with any site, like I have hulu. Seriously, the ads are the most annoying of all, but not just the ads bother me. I will legit sign on, correct gmail and password and it will pop up like it signed on (My boyfriends name and mine pop up) but as soon as it pops up and I click on a name, BAM! The screen goes back to the log in. I had this issue before and had to have hulu fix the issue. All of a sudden its happening again and again. I am done. I had Netflix before Hulu and never had any problems at all. I was very dissappointed and surely Hulu needs to get rid of their ads and fix their issues, or we are all just gonna run back to Netflix... smh

Date of experience: September 17, 2018
New Jersey
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Interface sucks
September 17, 2018

Heard that Hulu finally gave a channel grid interface, so I went back to them. Big mistake, all they did was change their all network' view from thumbnails to a list. This is NOT a channel guide! I wish Philo would get Fox News, So I can say goodbye to the likes of Hulu and the other streaming services, which (truth be told) are no better than the cable companies. Until then I'll be looking to replace Hulu for the final time.

Date of experience: September 16, 2018
California
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Tried to watch the movie "Vacation," which is an hour and a half long, but there were so many commercials, it's 2 1/2 hours long on Hulu (the limited commercial plan). Seriously?! There's a commercial break like every 5 minutes. I just counted 19 commercials during the last break. I gave up trying to watch the movie. Going to cancel Hulu... not worth $45 a month. Ridiculous.

Date of experience: September 15, 2018
New York
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Hulu TV SUCKS
September 13, 2018

Don't ever pay for Hulu tv it's such a joke. Even when u dvr something they won't let u fwd so stupid and their channel lineup sucks. And streaming sucks. Their TV guide is absolutely so stupid. PlayStation vue is **************% better. Hulu tv sucks sooooooo bad don't do it

Date of experience: September 12, 2018
Alabama
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Always buffering! In the middle of every movie a dozen times til I finally turn the $#*! off. If netflix can stream at the same cost without buffering more time than the movie plays then you shouldn't be a entertainment service. Waste of money. Thanks you Hulu $#*!s

Date of experience: September 12, 2018
Florida
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Always buffering
September 8, 2018

Its absolutely madding to try to watch a football game on Hulu live. Its constantly rebuffing and missing plays.

Date of experience: September 8, 2018
California
1 review
5 helpful votes
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The last 6 months, probably the last year, of using Hulu has been the worst service I have received in 5 years. Constant buffering, the steps to trouble shoot on the hulu site are incorrect or incomplete, not to mention their page to actually contact them is always down, most likely intentional so people cannot contact them and complain. There is no where on the site that i can find to report streaming issues, there should be a link on every single video to report issues, but no. Hulu does not care about its customers, clearly. The issue is not my internet, it is not the device I am using (because i have streaming issues on every device i attempt to watch hulu on). At the moment I am looking for other ways to view the shows I like on hulu because i am wasting my money on this application.

Date of experience: September 4, 2018
Texas
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Overall has some pretty good content, For what its worth I'd say its on par with netflix, just depends what shows you want.

Other bigger companies can probably shell out more for some big titles but hulu does a decent job keeping up

Date of experience: September 3, 2018
South Carolina
1 review
4 helpful votes
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The redesigned UI is much harder to navigate than the older one. Movie covers are way too large and the layout isn't intuitive.

Date of experience: August 28, 2018
North Carolina
8 reviews
12 helpful votes
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Commercial free
August 29, 2018

I've had HULU Commercial free $11.99 mo. The only thing I've had a problem with is connecting with my smart tv. Have to run through trouble shooting to get hulu to connect sometimes, otherwise no problems with streaming. I would recommend it.

Date of experience: August 28, 2018
Washington
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Too many issues
August 27, 2018

My number one issue with Hulu is a reoccurring issue I have with my account. When this issue happens, I try to watch an episode of a TV series, but a screen pops up that states that Hulu is being streamed on too many devices. However, there is no one else watching Hulu when this happens. I know this, because I visited Hulu.com/devices and removed every single device except for the one I was using the first time it happened. It still didn't work.

Date of experience: August 26, 2018
Colorado
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I keep it for certain shows I can't do without, but hulu needs to hire competent people that can build a basic friggin' interface. Get on it already! You suck Hulu! You're ripping us all off making us use that backwards bs and you know it. Man tf up.

Date of experience: August 24, 2018
Texas
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Not worth the effort
August 23, 2018

I haven had hulu for about 1 month. Enjoyed some shows. But in the last week I can't watch certain shows that I was able to watch. When I contacted them they said its like an "old cell phone when you can download certain apps". Well why could I watch the show yesterday on my tv and not today. They are not helpful at all.

Date of experience: August 23, 2018
Virginia
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Hulu is a dumpter fire, a black hole of corporate short cuts, where entertainment goes to die. First and the most annoying is the commercials. How they can justify a pay for streaming service WITH commercials is criminal. But what's worse is the commercials repeat ad nauseam. The content of the commerical are somehow worse, completely wrong demographic, obviously manipulative, and just all around bad. Hulu's commercials actively makes me want to boycott anything advertised. Their original programming (save handmaidens tale) is awful; just shallow bs. All flash no substance. They might as well be bravo. The interface is janky, making it hard to navigate to or keep queued up programing I actually like. Instead it forces feeds you pop bs you never asked for, just like the iTunes home page. Hulu truly exemplifies a bad service. They took all the mistakes made by network TV over the last 18 yrs and applies them to a streaming service. Let's put it this way, if netflix is a flying car, hulu is a 96 Ford Taurus with rocket engines painted on the side and cardboard wings. Case and point, hulu disabled their feedback page, probably because they couldn't handle the negative back. Please hulu just stop being so horrendously bad.

Date of experience: August 21, 2018
Minnesota
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Best customer service!
August 18, 2018

I spoke to Brandon about an issue I was having and he went above and beyond to help me. I seriously haven't had such amazing customer service in a long time. I am a happy customer
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Date of experience: August 16, 2018
Texas
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Light commercial is a big lie! In 50 min episode they showed like 3 times 90 second commercial! Is that light? Big lie. Also they dont have a lot of movies and serries we were interested

Date of experience: August 5, 2018