Any advice on Hulu?

Now that I have no television at home,
whatever I miss watching at the clubhouse television
I'll have to watch on Hulu.

I know, up until 2016, I could watch the 4 or 5 most recent episodes
of a show (Simpsons, Family Guy) for free,
starting 8 days after the airing of a new episode.
That was sufficient for me, although the download
was ALWAYS sucky slow/sticky.

But, now it seems Hulu does not have even a free section any more.
Seems as though I am now required to pay.

I see $8 ($7.95) per month with commercials, $13/mo without.

Worth it to pay the extra $5 to go without commercials?

Does the signal download faster for $13/mo than $8/mo?

How long do they keep episodes up there, when you pay?

Thank for your response, Jason.
My brother already lets me access his Netflix account
(yes, legally, it's allowed)

But Netflix is over a decade behind storing episodes of The Simpsons.
And, even for Family Guy & Bob's Burgers, you have to wait a year.

I am still waiting for 2016's Season 7 of Archer to be uploaded.

I never think I'll live that long!

Thank for your response, Jason.
My brother already lets me access his Netflix account
(yes, legally, it's allowed)

But Netflix is over a decade behind storing episodes of The Simpsons.
And, even for Family Guy & Bob's Burgers, you have to wait a year.

I am still waiting for 2016's Season 7 of Archer to be uploaded.

I never think I'll live that long!

Always.

Not everything has comercials. Movies are commercial free and older shows tend not to have them. I personally opt out of having cable to have a combination of it and netflix. Love hulu a bit more because it has some riftrax and mst3k at the moment.

I refuse to watch commercials ever. I don't bother with hulu since I have a roku and can watch various TV shows without commercials and without a monthly subscription fee. It's all recently released shows so you don't have to wait a year for the newest season. The episodes are available typically the day after they air. I also have amazon prime but rarely watch anything on there. The setup is weird and makes it hard to find things.

That is basically it. You can add channels to it like NBC, Comedy Central etc. And with shows that have their own websites like Conan you can connect to the website and stream the content through it.

I'm not 100% sure how it works since I'm not the one who set it up. We have a program on one of our desktop computers call Plex ( https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200288286-What-is-Plex- ) which allows us to watch TV. If anyone's interested I can get details on how it actually works, I just don't know the details offhand.