I’ve been using Binge for the past six months. There’s a lot of content that I used to watch on another platform, but it didn’t have a native app. So I thought that Binge would be a better option. And it is, but only just.The app on my AppleTV is very clunky. It’s also not the most user friendly. I am constantly overshooting where I want to go on the menu, because of the lag. This especially happens when my Bingelist option is all the way over on the other side of the options from Home. So I’m having to constantly go back and forth, then wait for the lag to catch up, then if I’m verrrry careful, I can finally get there. The other thing that happens is that watched shows stay on my list of things to watch. I’ve scrolled through and let it finish again, but it remains there on my list of things to finish watching. One final thing is the inability to download so I can watch offline. It’s something that my other services all have and it’s something lacking here, especially for the price. I’ve read some of the other reviews here and a lot of my problems with the app are things that were brought up three years ago. If these things were fixed, Binge would be great. As it stands, I’m watching less on Binge and more on my other streaming services, because they’re easier to use. As it stands, Binge is okay…but not great.

Parent warning: This app opens onto a general content page, which has images of R-rated content, before you can click on “kids” at the bottom. There is no clear kids path to go to kids content - keep this in mind if adding you young children’s devices.Let’s face it, you’re only getting this app for for the Binge subscription, for its content available in Australia (great adult content) - but the workings of the app itself is far from family friendly. You cannot install it on your child’s iPad, for them to click on their name and go directly to kids content (Netflix), or even set on user for kids (Stan). It will open on an image of one of the blockbuster R rated zombie series (or today, it’s the R rated Snyder’s remake of Justice League) on their general page, before they find the kids tab at the bottom. By the time they click on “kids” at the bottom, they’ve either been terrified, or have access to adult content, much of it R rated. What. The. Actual. Ffff.... And forget about any safety features on the TV (although, not apple’s concern, this is on Binge). Seriously - for the price of this app - it’s expensive - there are serious concerns for family safety. There’s no clear path for kids to find kids content on devices, without being terrified by R-rated general content first, and the tv app (not apple’s concern - I’m talking about the developer) is even worse. The developer of this Binge app needs to do better for child safety. Children’s content must be separated from adult content.

The issues with this app are never ending!Can’t remove shows/movies from Continue Watching list. They say just skip to the end of the show to “complete” and it will go away but I’ve done that countless times and yet they still sit there. Even shows that had previously disappeared from the Continue Watching list are now back. Quite literally every single show I’ve ever watched in the app is currently sitting in there!Auto Play function doesn’t work properly. It either doesn’t work at all, or it starts the next episode when there’s still 5 minutes left of the episode I’m watching! And it never gives you enough time to get back into the app to cancel it automatically playing! So, I turned Auto Play off - it STILL does it! It skips the last five mins to go to the next episode but because auto play is off, it just doesn’t play it and it sits there in this weird holding pattern. Of course this means I can’t just easily go back into the episode to watch the last five minutes so I have to disconnect and reconnect the app. And then it doesn’t go to where I left off and wants to start from the beginning of the episode again, so I have to skip all the way to the end and make sure I keep it open so I can quickly hit Cancel when it wants to auto play again.The show I’m watching always only has “Next Video” option showing so if I need to pause I have to go back and back and back and then click back into the show again and hope the pause button shows up this time. It takes forever which isn’t convenient when I need to pause quickly!

I decided to renew my subscription to Binge after a long hiatus confident that it couldn’t possibly still be the same poor quality, poor content, abysmal customer service bearing platform that it was those few years ago; especially with our current cost of living crisis seeing customers wanting genuine value for money and seamless service delivery. I was horribly wrong. Embarrassingly wrong. Should you find something worth watching, the Binge app will freeze, crash, and pause content frequently. How frequently? Approximately the same frequency with which a Fiddler moves his elbow in and out. Also, be sure to factor in the generosity of Binge allowing its customers to pay for the pleasure of viewing mind-numbing, ever present ads with the basic package. This information is carefully hidden three ticks down under the package selection options and worded so perfectly that it’s easily missed! The catalogue of films available to viewers through this dismal service is largely the simplistic, has-been nonsense of decades past; the kind of content guaranteed to appeal to a sticky handed fifteen year old who possesses a sense of humour belonging firmly to the gutter. What remains you could easily find on Tubi or another free streaming service at your leisure. Similarly, any of the series based programs offered have the distinct potential to rot the human brain faster than Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. You have been warned, Possums!