Friday, July 10, 2020

EXP TV: 24-hour Weirdness



If you've watched every movie on Netflix and are tired of binge-watching ancient TV shows, there is a new alternative. EXP TV is an internet channel that streams obscure content 24/7. It's sort of a combination of Adult Swim and Everything is Terrible, as if you've taken a leap into the rabbit hole of YouTube. The daytime programming is called Video Breaks, while the nighttime fare is called Night Owl.
What treasures would reward the loyal Video Breaks viewer?  Ventriloquist dummy sales demos, Filipino Pinocchios, LSD trip-induced talking hot dogs, Liberace’s recipe tips, French synth punk, primal scream therapy seminars, Deadhead parking lots, empty parking lots, Israeli sci-fi, scary animatronics, teenage girls’ homemade art films, Belgian hard techno dance instructions, Czech children’s films about UFOs, even Danzig reading from his book collection. And that’s all in just one hour!

We’ve been collecting obscure media for decades, but we’ve sorted through it all and cherry-picked the funny, the bizarre, the relevant, the irrelevant, the visually stunning, the interesting, the infamous, the good, the bad and the fugly.  We’ve done all that so the viewers don’t have to.  They get to kick back and experience the sweet spot without having to dig for rare stuff themselves or sit through an entire movie waiting for the cool part.


EXP TV is not video on demand; you cannot select what to watch, it just streams like an old-fashioned TV channel. But there is a guide so you can plan your day around it. Dangerous Minds interviewed EXP TV founders Tom Fitzgerald, Marcus Herring, and Taylor C. Rowley to give us an overview of EXP TV so you will know what to expect. Oh yeah, it's free.

1 comment:

KingRoper said...

Wow! Thank you for this. It's been my obsession all day long. Like a public access cable show from the 90s!