AMC+ | TV Shows & Movies 12+

I never write reviews but this deemed itself worthy

This is the worst streaming app I have ever seen or used. It is nonsensical. Here is a list of all of the issues I have encountered in less than 24 hours of use: • You cannot change the orientation of the show you are watching. • You have to restart whatever you are watching anytime you exit the application and reopen it because it either plays with a black screen and sound or a black screen and no sound at all. • There is a bar at the bottom of the player that has buttons to watch other episodes from earlier in the season that you cannot scroll (??? Why would I ever need this? it literally serves no purpose other than giving me something to accidentally click) • There is no option to continue watching the next episode of a series you are watching on the Home Screen. I have to manually go into the lists of shows, select my show, select the season, and find the next episode unless I am watching multiple episodes in a row (there is a next episode button after the current episode finishes) • I have to sign in every time I open the application after not using it for anything longer than 30 minutes. • There is no option to skip the intro of a show. There is probably even more that I am forgetting. How does this ever get green lit by the development team? It’s like it was made by a middle school programming student. This is comically bad. Maybe start a GoFundMe or something AMC, this is embarrassing.

Developer Response ,

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Awful

Horrible experience on the Apple TV. First was signing up. I signed up through Apple and started my free trial, but the app would not let me sign in. I had to create a login but it didn’t recognize that I had already started the trial through Apple - it would not let me proceed without putting in my credit card info. So I had to start a second subscription and then go back to cancel the free trial under my Apple ID subscriptions. So I will have to manage this subscription through their website. Annoying but whatever. Then there is the app itself.

Trying to watch anything on this app is an ordeal. The show will just stop playing at random times. The only way to fix it is to close the app and then go back in to resume - and half the time it does not resume where you left off. Trying to get back to where you were before is also ridiculous. Using the touchpad or iPhone screen to fast forward or rewind is nearly impossible. The slightest touch on the remote will shift the cursor on the progress bar wildly. You just have to slide back and forth overshooting where you were over and over until you eventually land in the ballpark and say “Screw it!” and just settle in to watch the last 5 or 10 minutes you already saw - only to have the app freeze up 15 minutes later. I was watching an hour long show and it froze up at least 3 times per episode.

I didn’t know how bad a streaming app could be.

So much works needs to be done

I subscribed to this because of a Black Friday deal they were offering and because I really wanted to see A Discovery of Witches. I am giving it 2 because I like the content and I have been able to discover more shows that I enjoy. Otherwise, I would give the actual app zero stars if I could. Cannot create profiles-seriously? This is the very first thing I noticed and still bugs me. Every streaming app has profiles. My wife and I watch different things and it would be nice to have different profiles to differentiate between the two of us. Navigation-absolutely horrible. You have to back all the way out, find the tv series again and then the season then the episode to resume where you stopped watching. Overall navigation is extremely poor. Next episode-does start the next episode. Doesn’t even give you settings to allow the next episode to play or not. Signing in-If I have been out of the app for a while, let’s say 24 hours, I have to log in again. Every time. That is annoying. We live in a world of streaming and other streaming services have set a bar on functionality and this app is not even close to that bar. I have seen similar posts going back months but yet nothing has been updated or done to correct any of the issues mentioned and that is very unfortunate. Unless there are some drastic changes, I will not be continuing my subscription.