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with your subscription. I too have a roku and love it. Have both netflix and amazon prime. Both have great original series programming. Just watched Hunger Games Mocking Jay 1 & 2(Amazon Prime), Intersteller and MI: Rogue Nation (Netflix). Even if you have to pay a viewing fee for a relatively current release, you'd have to pay that at redbox and you have to go get the movie and then return it w/i 24 hours.
Try some of these original programming on Netflix:
Grace & Frankie
House of Cards
Orange Is The New Black
Stranger Things
The Crown
The Fall
Many of these run 8 to 10 episodes and at least IMHO excellent shows and worth binge watching.
Netflix has a new series releasing Feb 2nd; "The Santa Clarita Diet" starring Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant. Looks like it's goning to be a good one.
by Sonia Saraiya
January 20,2017
Variety
Don't eat dinner while watching "Santa Clarita Diet." Don't even eat popcorn. You may think you're sitting down to watch a situational comedy about a married couple in Southern California, but there's quite a twist. Entrails, to be exact.
"Santa Clarita Diet" is a comedy about how suburban real estate agent Sheila (Drew Barrymore) turns into a creature of the undead, with a ravenous hunger for human flesh. It's a wacky, odd production, with a spare mythology of horror and a penchant for surprising, stomach-turning gore. In an early episode, Sheila -- hungry, but out of any nearby bodies to devour -- bargains a foot off of an unethical mortician. She tears into it as if it's a turkey leg at a county fair, gnawing at a flap of skin until it slowly peels off. In the first episode, actuated by apparent sexual desire, she relieves a man of his fingers. This escalates until the man is disemboweled on her nice green lawn and Sheila is covered in blood.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/tv/ct-santa-clarita-diet-tv-review-20170130-story.html