Don’t Subscribe to That Streamer? You Don’t Have to Miss Out on Hit Shows: TV on DVD at the Library
Do you have FOMO (fear of missing out) or, worse, YAMO (you are missing out) because you don't subscribe to the streamer carrying the hit show everyone is talking about? Did you know that the Library has many, many tv shows available to borrow on DVD with your library card? You can browse DVDs at you nearest neighborhood library or request a DVD through the catalog for pickup.
The Library carries shows from Netflix, AppleTV, Hulu, HBOMax, PrimeVideo, BritBox, and more—below is just a sampling. If you ditched your DVD player long ago, a reminder that many video game consoles play DVDs and small, external DVD drives are compatible with most laptops.
Severance
Severance centers on Mark Scout, leading a team of office workers whose memories are surgically split between work and personal lives. The 'work-life balance' experiment is questioned as Mark faces a mystery forcing him to confront the true nature of his work and himself.
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The White Lotus
As the newest set of high class vacationers check into the exclusive White Lotus resort in Hawaii, manager Armand finds himself facing more than the usual excessive demands of one-percenters. He takes on momma's boys and workaholics with a professional facade, his coping mechanisms become as extreme as the pressure he's under, while the guests themselves unravel inside their toxic dynamics until the situations collide with incredible consequences.
Succession
Succession follows a dysfunctional American global-media family.
Reacher
When retired Military Police Officer Jack Reacher is arrested for a murder he did not commit, he finds himself in the middle of a deadly conspiracy full of dirty cops, shady businessmen, and scheming politicians. With nothing but his wits, he must figure out what is happening in Margrave, Georgia.
Based on the Jack Reacher series by Lee Childs
Yellowjackets
A wildly talented high school girl soccer team becomes the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the Canadian wilderness.
True Detective
In 2012, Louisiana State Police Detectives Rust Cohle and Martin Hart are brought in to revisit a homicide case they worked in 1995. As the inquiry unfolds in present day through separate interrogations, the two former detectives narrate the story of their investigation, reopening unhealed wounds, and drawing into question their supposed solving of a bizarre ritualistic murder in 1995.
Dark Winds
The year is 1971 on a remote outpost of the Navajo Nation near Monument Valley. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Tribal Police is besieged by a series of seemingly unrelated crimes. The closer he digs to the truth, the more he exposes the wounds of his past. He is joined on this journey by his new deputy, Jim Chee. Chee, too, has old scores to settle from his youth on the reservation. Together, the two men battle the forces of evil, each other, and their demons on the path to salvation.
Based on the Leaphorn and Chee mysteries by Tony Hillerman and Anne Hillerman
Station Eleven
A post-apocalyptic saga spanning multiple timelines, this limited drama series tells the stories of survivors of the devastating flu as they attempt to rebuild and reimagine the world anew while holding on to the best of what's been lost.
Based on Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
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Lovecraft Country
Follows Korean war vet Atticus Freeman, his friend Letitia and his Uncle George on a journey across 1950's Jim Crow America where they face racist terrors and the terrifying monsters of an H.P. Lovecraft paperback.
Based on Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
The Handmaid's Tale
A religion-based autocracy has taken over most of the United States, renaming the country Gilead. In this country women are second-class citizens. Anyone trying to escape is punished. One such person is June, who is captured while trying to escape with her husband and child and is sentenced to be a handmaid, bearing children for childless government officials. As a handmaid, June is renamed Offred. This is her story.
Based on The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Gilded Age
A period of immense economic change, of huge fortunes made and lost, and the rise of disparity between old money and new. A wide-eyed young scion of a conservative family, Marian, embarks on a mission to infiltrate the wealthy neighboring clan or her aunts Agnes van Rhijn and Ada Brook, dominated by ruthless railroad tycoon George Russell, his rakish son, Larry, and his ambitious wife, Bertha. In this exciting new world that is on the brink of the modern age, will Marian follow the established rules of society, or forge her own path?
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Mare of Easttown
Kate Winslet plays Mare Sheehan, a small-town Pennsylvania detective who investigates a local murder as life crumbles around her. The seven-part limited series is an exploration into the dark side of a close community and an authentic examination of how family and past tragedies can define our present.
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Shetland
DI Jimmy Perez and his team investigate crimes within the close knit island community of the Shetland Islands.
Based on the Shetland Island Mysteries series by Ann Cleeves
Summaries provided via NYPL’s catalog, which draws from multiple sources.