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# High Fidelity
- URL: https://helpful-koala.pikapod.net/high-fidelity/
- Published: 2024-05-27T16:20:07.000Z
- Updated: 2024-05-27T16:20:42.000Z
- Description: Our fickle entertainment loyalities have us bouncing around the streaming landscape.
- Author: Robert Rackley
- Tags: Noise, #robert-2, culture, #Import 2024-09-14 17:57, #Import 2024-12-17 20:04, #Import 2025-01-01 18:26, #Import 2025-12-24 10:01, #Import 2026-07-11 23:34, #Import 2026-08-02 01:19, #Import 2026-09-14 17:25

My family is engaging in that proud American tradition of hopping between streaming services. We just canceled our commitment to Peacock. My wife watched Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher in *Murder She Wrote* solve more murders than the quaint little fictional town of Cabot Cove could have possibly had in a dozen generations. Now it’s time to move on.

I have wanted to pick up Hulu for a while now, after hearing so many good things about the *Shogun* series that recently ended. My wife and I watched the first episode, which was compelling if disturbingly littered with graphic violence.[1](#fn1-30300) I’m surprised that I haven’t read more about the brutality of the show after so many people have commented on the high quality of the first season. I guess it’s another sign of how we have just become accustomed to over-the-top violence in our entertainment.

Hulu has the movie *High Fidelity* in its catalog. As I recommended to my son that he watch it, I realized he has never had to engage with pretentious record store clerks, so he would only partially get some of the stereotypes on which the characters are based. Whereas I can still remember a record store jockey telling me, “Don’t believe the hype,” when I bought a used copy of Slint’s *Spiderland* on CD in the mid-90s.

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Slint - *Spiderland* (believe the hype - post-rock at its finest)

[Spiderland (remastered) by Slint](https://slint.bandcamp.com/album/spiderland-remastered?ref=helpful-koala.pikapod.net)

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1. A baby is murdered for the transgression of its parent, a Christian has his head suddenly and mercilessly liberated from his body while trying to comfort someone and a man is shown being boiled alive (his screaming last for several minutes of the show). [↩︎](#fnr1-30300)