"The Streaming Services You Can Watch for Free While You're Stuck Inside":

[tblue37]

https://slate.com/culture/2020/03/streaming-services-free-trial-coronavirus-pandemic.html

[hlthe2b]

1. great. If you have Roku, the Roku channel has some decent free content as well.

[alwaysinasnit]

2. K&R Thanks for posting.

[backscatter712]

3. If you have cable, your plan might include lots of already-paid-for on-demand & streaming shows.

Not quite free, but already paid for, at least for me. Smoke if you got 'em.

[MurrayDelph]

5. I don't know about the rest of them

But DirecTV has free Showtime and Cinemax for most of the week.

Nothing on there that grabs me, but your mileage may vary.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. A lot of them are only until end of March, sez the article.....

FWIW...amazon Prime Video offers free trials to various streaming providers. The good thing about is I have been able to test drive some sites thru amazon, instead of thru the other streaming site's, so no sign ups, account forms, etc. It is all done via amazon media player, one click.

[Skinner]

6. And you can watch Kanopy for free forever with a library card.

https://www.kanopy.com/

Just discovered this a few weeks ago.

[llmart]

7. Thanks!

I watch Acorn through my library card and didn't realize that my library offers Kanopy also. I just added it to my Roku list. We only get 4 movies per month, but that's still great.