AMC: Stream TV Shows & Movies Reviews

by Lordjoshbass

AMC is the first app I’ve written a review for.. mainly because I want to take my frustrations out with it in a more productive way. The video playback is easily the worst I’ve experienced on a streaming app and it’s the reason why I always wait for the seasons of the Walking Dead to come out on Netflix before I try watching it on this app. Every video seems to restart without warning if you press the fast-forward button, and to give you more inconveniences, it’ll make you watch the commercial you just watched again. AMC itself is glitchy and trying to scroll the video to a particular time is nearly impossible on an IPhone X and above due to the home gesture being active while you try to scroll. It’s really a shame I can’t use AMC at all to watch the great content on here but I hope it gets better.

by SK1LL3R Saint

At the moment I haven’t created a account for this app since I wanna watch walking dead right? Their will be ads yes, but the audio is fine really no glitches. One of the annoying things is that if you rewind you have to rewatch the ad. May update this review if it changes but it’s amazing and works just as expected. I didn’t trust AMC at the start due to the various 1 star reviews but I legit downloaded AMC and started watching walking dead without making an account. It may be different for other people which is a possibility but these reviews seem to be fake since app works 100%.

Update:

About a day after having AMC it asked for my internet provider which is weird because I’d assume they’d do it at the start. AMC seems to be a scam and I do not recommend it.

by Swayyde

update: It no longer works with Chromecast. Pitiful. When TWD is done, I’m done w AMC. I’ll stream from free tv sites from my pc. The fact that there have been zero visible improvements since the plethora of other posts speaks to your lack of care about your viewers.
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It is the most frustrating thing. I keep falling asleep on episodes, so when O come back to them and try to get to the last point I recall, the features to scroll fwd and rewind absolutely do not work. I can only watch the beginning of TWD so many times! Good grief! At this point in time and development of working streaming apps, this should be a non-issue. this app should ashamed of themselves. AMC is glitchy, crashes, and basically barely functional. Hardly representative of your content. Your going to lose viewers and subscribers because AMC is is worse than sub-par.

by Cylon Detector

When I first bought the this app app, I intended on watching season 5 of ‘Better Call Saul’, because it said that it would be available to watch on AMC with the purchase of premiere. So, I bought premiere, then go to look for season 5, but I could not find it. Not only that, but even though I PURCHASED premiere (which includes extra movies and shows, and no ads), some things I tried to watch still had ads. The layout was also very confusing. It was hard to search for shows, get to certain episodes, and really, to find anything. AMC is not only advertising falsely but has scammed money out of me. So this app: stop falsely promising things, and make sure that premiere works, and for god’s sake change the layout. So if you want to but AMC—DON’T. I wouldn’t recommend it, don’t waste your time.

by Gr8pimpin (Real)

I have to laugh every time they come out with the revision and see that there’s some kind of performance improvement. AMC is really a piece of garbage.

1. No 15-second rewind.
1A: The timecode bar at the bottom that enables you to scroll to different parts of the show (since there’s no 15 second rewind) is tiny!! Good luck!! if you miss something and you want to go back you Likely will go back too far. Then you will be forced to rewatch all the commercials that you just watched. Sometimes you have to watch the entire set — twice. In fact I had to watch one set of commercials three times. Two other times, even though I went back what looked like a minute, I went through two sets of commercials and it started playing the show from the beginning.
2. Watching an episode of fear The Walking Dead, after going through four commercials the show skipped ahead 15 minutes. Later it skipped back 10 minutes. It’s a Potluck app!!
3. this app decides to give you an entire season of some shows and only three or four episodes of another.
4. Since I can only watch the last 4 episodes of Better Call Saul (they want to charge you to watch season 4 from the beginning) I am done with this crap station and app.

by Nicodemus145

One of those apps they purposefully keep terrible, to get you to pay for the ad-free version by driving you crazy. The controls are clunky. The jump-back button will jump forward. The closed-captioning will turn off by itself, and when it’s on, it’ll say something like “(speaking Russian)” and cover up the show’s own subtitles. Oh and it doesn’t remember where you left off between apps. So if you watch half an episode on a Roku, you have to find where you left off on, say, a tablet by navigating those clunky controls and triggering all the (often very repetitive) ads all over again. The content is great, but we already pay for a cable subscription to get us into this “free” app, so the least they could do is keep their software above average.

by Timmman

Hi I thought this would be a good App it worked ok for a while but Always had problems with it working with COX Cable I don't know what the parent company behind this app lifetime and others that don't like COX but they aren't hurting COX Cable they are hurting Cox's Customers by making not allowing them to log in because the prover is COX unfortunately this is the only provider I can get and I'm so close to being done with this app COMPLETELY I will just stop watching the DEADs Comic Book Men Terror etc... So again I can't log in because the COX Cable link on providers AGAIN DOESNT WORK!!! All the other companies links work but not the COX CABLE, so I went to other providers to log on there again NO link so once again whatever this is between COX n this app is hurting consumers NOT COX Cable
Thanks for not helping so don't waste your time this app doesn't care about the consumers only that the Cable companies do what they want!!!
Sad sad sad

by DyreLogan

When I first installed this on my Apple TV I watching episodes I missed of tv shows I regularly watch. It worked, for the most part. A few weeks later, I come to find out that they completely locked everything and when you click to unlock you are greeted with a “We know you’re paying for cable tv, and this is included with your cable subscription, but we are greedy and don’t really care about you as a customer. So we want you to pay 5 dollars more a month, adding to your already outrageous cable bill, to make us even more rich. Sorry, not sorry about locking you out of your shows that you were watching with your cable plan, we want to make even more money. Again, we don’t care about you. Have a nice day. Don’t forget to subscribe if you want to keep watching where you left off.”

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by Peod65

The log in interface for this application is pure unadulterated garbage! You go through the process of selecting your television provider, you log in then you have to log into your premium subscription. Your premium log in lasts for ONE episode! You are forced to log all the way out and repeat the process to access the premium subscription service again...REALLY this app?!? Now that’s the FireTV experience.
Let’s go to the iPhone experience..
Again you log in via service provider interface and then select the “I ALREADY HAVE PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION” link and.... iPhone prompts your to purchase the subscription service through your Apple account??? You decline the “new” subscription and you are denied access... access you already pay for!!!
Contact Apple and they ask did you try deleting AMC and reinstalling it?? Well, sure I’ll try it on the outside chance it works...survey says....NOPE!
this app & Apple how can a hyperlink for logging into an “active account” prompt my iPhone to make an totally unnecessary purchase??? Ladies, gentlemen..answer please??
this app your “Premier” survive is embarrassing at best, a blatant money grab at worst!!
You can find more competent app programmers at your local junior high school! You owe your loyal customers a better program and free access for 6 months as an apology for this current digital garbage!!

by Mrhooper

If this app set out to build the most poorly functioning app in the Apple TV App Store, they did it! Congrats to this app for making an app whose search functionality can’t even locate a program featured on it’s home screen. And for making an app that persuades you to upgrade to their premium service through 3 minute long ad breaks every 5 to 10 minutes into their programming, only to find out that when you do upgrade, AMC won’t recognize the change and still feeds you the exact same ad 2 to 4 times back to back in a row. As someone who works in advertising, someone should probably let the brands who are paying that this app is giving them high frequency results by bombarding viewers repeated with the same content - certainly not driving any brand affinity. Quite the opposite.

Nice work this app! You made the worst app in the iTunes Store!

by Wodatoad

I’ve had AMC as long as I can remember. It used to be great! I loved my TWD, but work hours changed for me and I couldn’t stay up late to watch. AMC alllowed me to watch first thing Monday morning, it was awesome. I’m using on my IPad Pro and have the latest version, quality internet access, and signed in through my TV provider where I can watch this app at home. With that said, AMC is not being taken care of and is longer a viable resource to my favorite this app programs. I thought about upgrading but I don’t mind the commercials. What occurs for me is I open AMC , select the program, select the episode and the screen sits black, nothing, no spinning avatar wheel, no try again later, just nothing. I’ve performed all my upgrades, deleted AMC , reloaded it, checked all my settings, etc. This is not AMC I used to know and love. It’s really too bad.

by Thissucks7

1st...when download AMC what happens is you go online and you click let’s say The Walking Dead. Once in you basically are able to click the episode that is available you want to see which is only the first of the eighth season
2nd when you go on to watch the second episode you have a bit of issues because it’ll ask you for your service provider. Though after a while u may b able to Finally watch it.
3rd. when you go to watch the latest episode which has already been loaded on AMC you bump into another problem we are you are not taken into the full episode you’re running around wasting your data and wasting your Wi-Fi going in circles with having to log into your service provider. Which you will be logged in but you will have no access to look at that full episode which is the latest episode please tell me someone has figured this whole thing out

by DO NOT GET CRAPPG APP

I downloaded AMC to watch TWD and FTWD, but after getting the service put onto my internet provider AMC continued to mess up, wouldn’t let me sign into my xfinity account to be able to watch this app+, etc. At one point when it was working an add came on. Which wasn’t supposed to because I had the plus. So I called xfinity to see what my account says and to see if it says this app + and no commercials. The rep said that that’s what she saw and don’t see why there was an ad. She even heard the commercial in the background while I was playing the show. After undownloading and redownloading AMC it still was glitching. I would press play on the show and broadcast it to my tv, you could hear the show but not see it. And once I exited out and went back in the loading screen for this app just kept spinning. I’m canceling my subscription. Refuse to pay for something that isn’t working at all.

by AMCappTORTURE

Usually I do not do this, however, considering AMC seems to be getting worse by the week and my current experience exhausted all patience I was driven to write. 1. Each and every time I use AMC I am required to log in to my service provider. I don't actively log out and I'm the only user...so why?
2. Often times when trying to log in to said service provider...it fails to login...next screen doesn't load, says it timed out OR sends you back to the this app home screen and when you try to select your programming you're directed to login again...so you're stuck in a loop of nothingness.
3. If you're so lucky to actually login to your service provider and proceed to play your desired program...most recent episode of The Walking Dead in my case...it may NOT PLAY. The extras and everything else I don't care about at the moment will play...but NOT the desired episode.
4. Oftentimes when using this app via Firestick, I have to restart the stick to get proper functionality every step of the way.

In summary, AMC is a HORRIBLE representation of the fine programming this app produces and gets worse by the week. You would think with all the commercials you have to endure some of this revenue would be directed to the proper development of AMC. Much patience and time is required...dear developers, please do better...quickly.

by Glam Just

Don’t waste your time or money on AMC. Look at all the negative reviews. I wish I’d read them before even downloading this stupid app. Basically I wanted to watch TWD and this app states it’s free to watch well ok. I had trouble getting the first episode to play the sound was screwed up and it keep glitching and freezing. But the ads they run and work perfectly. They play the same ads back to back and they are about almost 30secs long. Once you watch ads for like 3 minutes, AMC takes me back to the beginning of the show and not where I left off before being bombarded by ads. So I though ok I’ll buy the premium this app to skip the ads. Problem solved right? No, after you pay you find out you need a cable provider to have AMC work. Well guess what I don’t have one. That’s the whole reason I got AMC. So now I’m out $4.99 and can’t use AMC . I put in a request to have a refund. Its been 3 days and no response from this app.

by Mightdumpit

Before I signed up for the premiere version, the listed shows included Alcatraz, a short-lived Fox show from several years ago, with a couple of trailers available to view with the standard version of AMC promising the full season with the premiere version. After signing up for the premiere version, the same trailers were still the only available content. Upon lodging a complaint with this app, I got the standard “We’re working on it” response. Yesterday, Alcatraz disappeared from the site entirely. Even a search revealed nothing. Upon lodging a second complaint I received a response requesting me to tell them the device I was using, my cable provider and whether they carried this app. After providing the required responses, I again received the same canned response that they’re working on it. If they don’t reinstate the content I signed up to view, I will be calling my bank to dispute the charge on the grounds of false advertising. I suggest anyone else in the same situation do the same.

by Wld8hrt*

AMC is horrible. I used to have shudder separately but also wanted the this app channel and Sundance. So I signed up for this app+. What a bad idea.
You cannot search within the shudder portion of AMC . You can’t see the latest releases. You can’t pick a sub genre. You can’t do anything you would normally want to do To find something to watch.
Has whoever designed AMC ever used an app before?? Have they ever wanted to find a particular program or movie to watch?? I don’t think so.
I hate this. I recently saw an ad for a new shudder movie. I thought, ok I’ll just open AMC and it will be there, easy to find or search. Nope. I didn’t recall the title so going through page after page trying to find it was futile. And, if I clicked on a movie to see what it was about hoping that would jog my memory, when you went back it take you back to the top of the list. The list that is in no discernible order whatsoever! Not alphabetical, not by genre, not by date.
Aggravating, worthless excuse for an app.

by Susie107

The redundant commercials have GOT to go. You’re doing your advertisers a disservice because I will never eat another Mentos again or purchase the ADT system but at least I’ll have that country song from the Click It or Ticket commercial in my head every time I buckle my seatbelt. Awesome.

Before that drove me nuts, I realized I have to restart AMC at least 3 times because it just shows this app for a second then crashes to the home screen. Over and over. I try to watch TWD but I have to restart the captions after every commercial break, their lips get out if sync with the audio and hope I never want to rewind or fast forward, or “resume” an episode. Of all my video apps I’ve never in my life experienced so many issues. Obviously I love this app programming but your app is just awful. Wow.

by Jgman100

App delivers if core purpose for accessing media content. Little attention to user interface interface has been made though.

Bugs keep popping up. For example The cast icon in landscape is next to the airplay and not clickable.

The resolution of the content is obviously reduced for bandwidth savings.

The typeface size and spacing makes it difficult to read in some areas and overpowering in others.

The size of the thumbnails is standard but does little to help identify which episode I’m looking at. I always find myself looking more at the season and episode making the thumbnail little more than aesthetic.

The abrupt show and hide of objects without ease animated effects feels amateur.

And the initial home screen takes a moment to find your way around feeling more like a store or dashboard when it should be more intuitive and personalized.

The initial load time is very heavy as well. Suggesting far too much content is being loaded on start or pulled from remote. Perhaps not fully native.

Just my two cents

by 3PinkTigers

I have had the Premium subscription for the Walking Dead for a while and I absolutely loved it. After The Walking Dead season came back in air,I tried to access my Premium content again and tho I had resubscribed to it since March 8th, I’m unable to access my Premium content. I’m prompted to purchased it when I have already done so. I uninstalled and re-installed, logged out and back in ... still no success! I emailed tech support. Hopefully this will fix the issue.

Update: Emailed tech support and they got it going for me. Charmaine with customer care was great and handled my issue.

by EatMyAnusApple

I have to laugh every time they come out with the revision and see that there’s some kind of performance improvement. AMC is really a piece of garbage.

1. No 15-second rewind.
1A: The timecode bar at the bottom that enables you to scroll to different parts of the show (since there’s no 15 second rewind) is tiny!! Good luck!! if you miss something and you want to go back you Likely will go back too far. Then you will be forced to rewatch all the commercials that you just watched. Sometimes you have to watch the entire set — twice. In fact I had to watch one set of commercials three times. Two other times, even though I went back what looked like a minute, I went through two sets of commercials and it started playing the show from the beginning.
2. Watching an episode of fear The Walking Dead, after going through four commercials the show skipped ahead 15 minutes. Later it skipped back 10 minutes. It’s a Potluck app!!
3. this app decides to give you an entire season of some shows and only three or four episodes of another.
4. Since I can only watch the last 4 episodes of Better Call Saul (they want to charge you to watch season 4 from the beginning) I am done with this crap station and app.

by Nathan8712

Would give it -5 stars if I could. Worst tv channel app in my opinion. Very slow at buffering, no rewind feature, scrolling is inaccurate. And the wort of all things is that when I scroll back it makes me rewatch your commercials. On the Cw app, fox app, and pretty much every other tv show app, once you watch the commercials that's it. The this app app is the only app that forces the commercials to be rewatched. If I watch the shows the this app has anywhere else, I save myself 20min of commercials and I have access to rewind without rewatching commercials. Thanks this app thanks for nothing.

Also each commercial break is 2 minutes longer then the commercials than every other tv show app 🖕🏽it is not even worth using AMC ...

Also I sign in but as soon as I leave my WiFi it signs out immediately....really annoying

by Chrisfields55

As someone as big as you guys are with customers just because of The Walking Dead you would think you would have a better app. Your app is terrible I think you need to bring in new app developers because the ones you have are horrible at their job. I mean your one star reviews is almost as high as your 5 star reviews don’t you see problems with that? I’ve read through a lot of reviews and I see a lot of the same issue and I have the same issue also. The video won’t load. Now if you see so many reviews saying that then why isn’t it the problem fixed. You want to keep customers happy so they refer your service and you get more customers and more money I mean isn’t that the goal? It needs fixed. I think the whole app needs to be looked at and redone entirely.

by Nugget3573

I’ve had problems with AMC before. It was terrible at syncing with Apple TV and would crash routinely. Having to watch minutes worth of commercials when simply jumping to a new spot on a show drove me away from it.

I gave it a second chance, only to find out that it didn’t even matter if these issues were fixed - they simply don’t allow you to stream some of their most popular shows. They just aren’t available. I tried to catch up on Walking Dead a few months after the latest season and you just point blank can’t stream them.

Worst entertainment app I’ve ever seen. It’s like they have no clue about a users experience. Shame I’ve stopped watching a good show just because they can’t make it available.

by Moneymedia

The current AppleTV version of AMC (only one I use) loses its place in the video after every commercial break. You might be halfway through an episode of Walking Dead, hit a pod of commercials, and AMC restarts the show at a point 10 or 15 minutes earlier.

It’s super annoying and has been happening for a week, across multiple episodes. My lame workaround is simply to manually scroll forward to the latest ad break, click Play again, and usually the stream resumes from that point. Until the next ad break, where I have to do the whole thing again.

It utterly spoils the flow of the show and makes me extra annoyed at the advertisers, because I know their commercials will cause me work.

by Bdix82

I have been using AMC for a couple of years. It has progressively gotten worse. Now it is just terrible. AMC will not load a show. When it will finally work there are 5 commercials every 7 min. Then when it comes back to the show it's a black screen. The sound plays and no picture. When I restart it, it just try's to load. It has been doing this for about 2 months

Also prepare yourself so that when the commercials pop on your eardrums nearly explode. Not sure why the commercials are 5x louder then the show. I can say it is incredibly annoying to be working out and have to constantly take out my headphones or adjust the volume. I see I'm not the only one complaining about the same issues.

Good luck!

by C0urtneyB

So night before I was logged in watching TWD SEASON 9 ep. 1 and I watched the whole thing but when I got to ep 2 it just kept loading and loading. I checked my WiFi. But this morning all my devices where the this app app is downloaded I was signed out. So I was signing in with my tv provider and after I finish, it goes to a white screen and an only an arrow to go back. I tried signing in on all my devices,(iPhone, iPad and my roku remote that has direct tv now on it but AMC is downloaded on the Roku. All those went to the white screen too. So this app please update AGAIN, I don’t wanna wait for the whole season to come out on Netflix even though it’s better with not having commercials.

by CulinaryQueen1

1) Why do we have to wait 2-3+days to see an episode?
2) next some of us like to go back and watch an episode again; but it disappears too soon. Let a whole season stay up for a couple of months so the portions missed can be seen. And let us catch up.
3) The variety and original programming is pretty good.
4) Another issue is, if we are out of wifi, for example at an airport or traveling it would be good to be able to use AMC ; but often that does not work. But maybe I am not enough of a "techie"
5) lastly, a production that is a good historical series like Turn could also be made in a version that a family with kids can watch with no gratuitous sex scenes and needless super gory blood n guts scenes. The basic story is exciting enough, locations, costumes and acting is great. Gives a good underpinning to our country's history.
Plus with Spies, who wouldn't want to see that!
Thank you. Keep up the good work.

by GoneGirI

I guess after some updates, AMC is much better. I logged in with my provider and I can watch all the shows. I tested some of the complaints in previous reviews and I didn’t have any problems. The reason I gave it 4 instead of 5 is because there are ads within the shows. Normally, I would say, “well they have to make money”, but since I am logged in with my tv provider, which I already pay for and get this app, I don’t think I should have to pay anymore. Other than that, I have no complaints. So I will only use AMC if the show I want to watch can’t be watched on demand or some I haven’t recorded.
System: iOS