Amazon has a quirk in its streaming service interface.
When it is pushing shows through its viewing interface, it usually tries to impress us with the latest-and-greatest version of whatever it has. Thus, you’ll be regaled with the “new” season of some multi-year series, even if you’ve yet to watch any of the prior seasons.
I feel like there was a time when clicking on such a series would automatically take you to the place where you had left off or, if you’ve never watched anything previously, back to the beginning. Maybe it never did work that way and I’m just thinking about how I think it should work. You might even recall that I tied myself in a knot with Netfix’s streaming, trying to find the right show to watch in the Medici series. Obviously, the Netflix version is a bit different.
Exactly how Amazon does it became very clear to me a couple of days ago as I tried to add the highly-recommended Clarkson’s Farm to my queue. Amazon kept insisting that I wanted to watch season 2 because it was NEW(!) I didn’t, of course, as I have never seen any of Clarkson’s Farm and, indeed, only just heard of the series that same day. I finally had to resort to the search function to get a handle on the first season.
Now let’s go back a week or two. For the TV series Hanna, I had added it to my queue months prior, also based on an Amazon marketing push. There is no way I could recall the details now but – long story short – it was Season 3, not Season 1, that ended up in my next-to-watch. Then, for whatever reason, I never noticed that I started out at the “end of the story.” As I described in my earlier article, my assumption was that it was a continuation of the film’s story, picking up a couple of years after.
So it went even as I finished out the entire season.
The other night, I decided to try to refresh my memory about Hanna-the-film’s version of the story. I read the synopsis in Wikipedia, an exercise that didn’t really spark any memories. [I’m sorry but, despite the positive reviews, I found Hanna (the film) to be THAT forgettable.] What I did notice is some inconsistencies. The TV version of the story didn’t quite track the film version in more than one important way. That’s when I realized that the TV version had its own and different story. And that that new version was expounded upon in Season 1 of the show!
Crud.
In my write-up for Season 3 I explained that I couldn’t see myself watching any more of this show. Now I realized that one of my issues with it may be caused by my watching it from the end. Would it be a different experience if I watched from the beginning? Would I be able to answer my questions about the “message” of the gender roles? Do I now need to watch and find out?
If nothing else, I’ve found one more streaming-service pitfall to be wary of in the future.
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