The content is exceptional, exactly what I was looking for. I could get lost for hours in it. However the only thing keeping me from a 5 star rating is a bug on Apple TV (I’m on tvOS version 15.5.1 and Night Flight version 1.2) that renders the Menu button non-functional when playing videos. When playing a video I am unable to return to the previous screen by pushing the Menu button on my Apple TV remote, as is my expectation as a user. The only way I’ve found to exit a video at all is to double-click the Home button, quit the app, and effectively forcing me back to start from the beginning of my flow. Please, please, please fix this one bug. It’s the solitary blemish on an otherwise excellent experience.

So, on your “favorites” screen (which everyone uses for bookmarks) it’s nothing but a series of screencaps. No titles, no anything. If you have 100 eps in your list, good luck finding the one you want to watch. ANNOYING. And there’s no way to remove this from the list after you’ve watched them - not from the list, at least. No, you have back out of the list, search the title again (and the search function is terrible) and then find its page. Because when you click a thumbnail from the favorites page you don’t get the info page first, it just starts the show. ANNOYING. Oh, and if they post a link to something on their Instagram - good luck finding it using the AppleTV app! Seems like half the product doesn’t shoe up in there. See: “Manic Cop 2” as an arbitrary example. Search it on the website, there it is! Search it in the app, it’s gone! Guess some you just have to watch on your laptop? ANNOYING. Great content, but such a pain in the a using it! GET IT TOGETHER, Night Flight!

Hands down my favorite streaming app in terms of content. However, there are two main problems with app functionality. First is that there does not seem to be any syncing of your favorites between different devices. I watch it on my Roku, on my iPad, and on my iPhone, and each of the three apps have a different list of favorites and do not sync. The second issue is that it is really hard to scroll through the plethora of categories to find content that you want to watch. For example, simply trying to find the original Night Flight episodes on the Roku app is an endless scrolling exercise. It would be great if you could “favorite“ or “bookmark“ an entire section or TV show instead of just individual episodes so that you could quickly and easily get to the content you want to watch (like the Night Flight original episodes). I also just noticed that all of my favorites and all of my downloaded items on my iPhone and my iPad just got completely wiped clean with the latest update. That’s kind of a bummer but I can forgive it if the other items that I noted above get fixed!

If cult movies and underground culture and music docs are your jam, the resurrection of Night Flight is a dream come true. I get more enjoyment out of my $4/month subscription than every other streaming service combined. The app is super basic and doesn’t do any of the things you expect from other experiences tho. It doesn’t save your place in movies, favorites disappear at random, no “keep watching,” limited controls, etc. It doesn’t really bug me because I grew up watching Night Flight on TV and I always felt blessed by the entertainment gods whenever I happened to catch it. So the janky app actually taps into my nostalgia. It’s sort of the cassette mixtape of streaming apps. I mostly watch the streams anyway which just go 24/7. It’s relaxing to not have to choose. Ah, simpler times.