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Streaming. What's trending? November 28th 2022

Need some help finding what to watch? Here is a selection of the top trending shows in movies across 4 of the most popular streaming services, and as always if you need help with anything streaming or smart home related you can contact us at 309-778-8611 or by emailing us at  OneSource@midcentury.com     Netflix: The Noel Diary Cleaning out his childhood home at Christmas, a novelist meets a woman searching for her birth mother. Will an old diary unlock their pasts - and hearts?   Wednesday Wednesday Addams is sent to Nevermore Academy, a bizarre boarding school where she attempts to master her psychic powers, stop a monstrous killing spree of the town citizens, and solve the supernatural mystery that affected her family 25 years ago - all while navigating her new relationships. Hulu: How The Grinch Stole Christmas On the outskirts of Whoville lives a green, revenge-seeking Grinch who plans to ruin Christmas for all the citizens of the town.  HBO Max: A Christmas Story Christmas An adu

Streaming. What's trending? November 21st 2022

  Need some help finding what to watch? Here is a selection of the top trending shows in movies across 4 of the most popular streaming services, and as always if you need help with anything streaming or smart home related you can contact us at 309-778-8611 or by emailing us at  OneSource@midcentury.com     Netflix: Slumberland A young girl discovers a secret map to the dreamworld of Slumberland, and with the help of an eccentric outlaw, she traverses dreams and flees nightmares, with the hope that she will be able to see her late father again.   1899 Passengers on an immigrant ship traveling to the new continent get caught in a mysterious riddle when they find a second vessel adrift on the open sea. Hulu: Don’t Worry Darling Alice and Jack are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. But when cracks in their idyllic life begin to appea

Friday Night Movie Picks November 18th 2022

                           If you’re nostalgic for weekend trips to the video store here is a list of the top 5 most followed movies on FaceBook that you can stream at home and where to find them.  As always if you need help with anything streaming or smart home related you can contact us at 309-778-8611 or by emailing us at   OneSource@midcentury.com   The Grinch The Grinch hates a scheme to ruin Christmas when the residents of Whoville plan their annual holiday celebration. Where: fuboTV   Zootopia   Determined to prove herself, Officer Judy Hopps, the first bunny on Zootopia’s police force, jumps at the chance to crack her case – even if it means partnering with scam-artist fox Nick Wilde to solve the mystery. Where: Disney+   Kong: Skull Island   Explore the mysterious and dangerous home of the king of the apes as a team of explorers' ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial island. Where: Amazon Prime Video   Bumblebee   On the run in the year 198

Streaming. What's trending? November 16th 2022

Need some help finding what to watch? Here is a selection of the top trending shows in movies across 4 of the most popular streaming services, and as always if you need help with anything streaming or smart home related you can contact us at 309-778-8611 or by emailing us at OneSource@midcentury.com Netflix: Where the Crawdads Sing From the best-selling novel comes a captivating mystery. Where the Crawdads Sing tells the story of Kya, an abandoned girl who raised herself to adulthood in the dangerous marshlands of North Carolina. For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” haunted Barkley Cove, isolating the sharp and resilient Kya from her community. Drawn to two young men from town, Kya opens herself to a new and startling world; but when one of them is found dead, she is immediately cast by the community as the main suspect. As the case unfolds, the verdict as to what actually happened becomes increasingly unclear, threatening to reveal the many secrets that lay within the marsh.   The Cr

Netflix has a secret

   How many times have you opened Netflix in hopes to find a movie or start a new series only to be unimpressed with what the algorithm has decided to offer and end up re-watching the same shows again? Did you know that Netflix has a list of secret codes that you can use to help find exactly what you’re in the mood to watch? Netflix has a list of category codes that trace their roots all the way back to 1997 when the company first launched as a physical DVD-only rental service. One fan managed to scrape all these codes from their website and share them online. Since then, Netflix has added thousands more codes, seemingly randomly at times, while others like the Human Connections (81271205) were creating during the COVID-19 pandemic to give customers some “feel good” titles. Unfortunately, the only way to access these codes is by using a web browser, as of this date Netflix has no plans on adding code search functionality to its smart device apps. Simply copy and paste “netflix.com/