AMC+ | TV Shows & Movies Reviews

by Jbnh99

I just signed up for AMC+ and am very disappointed with AMCTVShowsMovies. The navigation of AMCTVShowsMovies is horrible, you can’t view all episodes once you select a program. It forces you to start at episode 1 and do them in order which may not seem like a big deal but it is if you have seen episodes on a different platform and just want to pick up where you left off. AMCTVShowsMovies freezes continuously, forcing you to close out of AMCTVShowsMovies and login again. I had forgotten my password and the reset is a nightmare. You get the password email link are able to click on it but it won’t allow you to update. If you hit reset again it will then bring you into AMCTVShowsMovies without logging in. This is frustrating to have to do every time I want to log in if I can’t reset. AMC please make your platform more user friendly. I guess I will have to use the web version which is not convenient to have to launch a browser and then search for AMC vs launching an app. Let’s hope the viewing content is worth it.

by Any73110

I subscribing directly through my iPhone 8 which is the only media I currently have access to (no TV provider). Thus far it has been annoying to beyond frustrating as I primarily wish to see series.

Apparently there is no separate ‘pages’ devoted to series through which one can scroll and pick out an episode to watch. When I finish seeing an episode there is NO automatic advance to the next episode (which seems logical), but only a choice of three totally non-related selections. Using the search feature, I am then directed only back to the very FIRST episode but again without the option of getting to another episode.

I watched Halt and Catch Fire. The next episode was not available to me on AMC+ but somehow I was able to watch the first two seasons on iTV . Supposedly it is an elusive AMC production but if I want to watch the final two season (3 & 4), I have to purchase through iTV? In watching on iTV, I had to be careful not to resubcribe to AMC.

Now I am trying to watch “Des”, but again it is not allowing me to go to the next episode.

Also when I open AMCTVShowsMovies , it shows a very limited selection of offerings, most of which I do not want so I really do not have any idea of what might really be available.

Definitely needs better user interface to watch series. Quite lacking in that area or to resume what the user was watching. Thanks

by Osmidget

I rarely write reviews but AMCTVShowsMovies is incredibly frustrating and not user friendly. The content is what drew me to downloading it but the interactivity of the platform is abysmal.

Streaming apps have been around long enough now that basics expectations have been established that AMCTVShowsMovies sorely lacks: Auto-play of the next episode of a series , ability for the screen orientation to flip depending on phone position, clear selection tabs on series site pages (season, episode, etc - on my iPhone 8 these appear as a jumbled overlay), capacity to cast a video to another device.. the list goes on I'm sure but these are what I've noticed after less than a day of usage.

Having read other reviews, it does not appear the developers are making any efforts to effect any change. Despite my interest in the content of AMCTVShowsMovies , I highly doubt I'll be using this beyond the free trial period barring a better response to the numerous critiques that have been posted.

by Jmona0352

I got the year pass and ever sinc3 the first day after signing up, AMCTVShowsMovies crashes upon opening it on iPhone, and when opening AMCTVShowsMovies on AppleTV doesn’t matter what, it freezes, leaving you to force close AMCTVShowsMovies , and starting an entire episode over. When you start the episode, doesn't even resume where you left off. I’m trying to watch The War of the Worlds, and on trying to get through an episode, but every time, I have to start from episode one, instead of the episode where you left off when it froze or crashed. What is more infuriating, my card got charged way more easily than I’m having luck on watching anything at all. Worst UI, too. Extremely hard to navigate. I wished I had never wasted my breath, time, and hard-earned money. Oh yeah, I forgot that it doesn't work across other devices or saves the shows you want to or are watching. Save yourself the trouble and subscribe through Prime Video instead.

by Jamyhart8861

I wish I had read these reviews before I paid for a year upfront of AMC+. Like many I decided on AMC+ for one particular show I want to watch and it has been very frustrating! AMCTVShowsMovies gives messages that “oops there is an issue with this content” or it just crashes. When I try to use airplay AMCTVShowsMovies just stops. At first I thought it was airplay then maybe my TV but all other videos/apps play perfectly with airplay. So after an hour of wasted time trying to find the issue, I put in a “ticket”. As I am un-installing and re-installing AMCTVShowsMovies for the third time I look at the rating and read these reviews. It is hard for me to believe that AMC cannot create an app that works and delivers what is promised. I also have xfinity and I can say AMC + into the remote and it comes up but either xFinity or AMC does not allow you to sign in, you have to purchase through xFinity for it to work through the platform. Other streaming services do not require that, why AMC+? AAARGH!!!!!

by Mustard Zoltar Podrowska

Horrible experience on the Apple TV. First was signing up. I signed up through Apple and started my free trial, but AMCTVShowsMovies would not let me sign in. I had to create a login but it didn’t recognize that I had already started the trial through Apple - it would not let me proceed without putting in my credit card info. So I had to start a second subscription and then go back to cancel the free trial under my Apple ID subscriptions. So I will have to manage this subscription through their website. Annoying but whatever. Then there is AMCTVShowsMovies itself.

Trying to watch anything on AMCTVShowsMovies is an ordeal. The show will just stop playing at random times. The only way to fix it is to close AMCTVShowsMovies and then go back in to resume - and half the time it does not resume where you left off. Trying to get back to where you were before is also ridiculous. Using the touchpad or iPhone screen to fast forward or rewind is nearly impossible. The slightest touch on the remote will shift the cursor on the progress bar wildly. You just have to slide back and forth overshooting where you were over and over until you eventually land in the ballpark and say “Screw it!” and just settle in to watch the last 5 or 10 minutes you already saw - only to have AMCTVShowsMovies freeze up 15 minutes later. I was watching an hour long show and it froze up at least 3 times per episode.

I didn’t know how bad a streaming app could be.

by Jacksonyoung03

If I could give AMCTVShowsMovies a zero star rating, I would. I received a 6 month free trial through Verizon after buying the iPhone 13 pro. Great…..or so I thought! After clicking “redeem now” and setting up my account on the AMCPlus website, I downloaded AMCTVShowsMovies . At first, it wouldn’t let me sign in at all. Didn’t recognize password, even though it was correct. Now, it allows me to sign in, but immediately asks me to sign up for my free 7 day trial. It won’t let me past that screen at all. Tried it on my Roku, also. Allows me to sign in, but after clicking on any show at all, it tells me that the content isn’t available for my subscription. Customer support continues to ask me the same questions over and over. At this point, I’m just going to cancel the trial and delete my account so that my card won’t be charged at the end of the “free trial” that I can’t even use. Never had this issue with any of my other streaming apps.

by Tystarke

Like I said in the title, if your app doesn’t work, get out of the streaming game. You're clearly not ready. I downloaded and subscribed to yet another streaming service so I could watch Kin. Thankfully I’m still in the free trial because I won’t be purchasing. All of a sudden, without warning, the episodes are not available anymore to watch. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Your app is so broken it’s infuriating to witness. I get logged out constantly for no apparent reason. When binging a series, the logical thing would be to start the next episode while the credits are rolling. But no, you have to find the series again on the Home Screen and then click on seasons (should be titled episodes). For whatever reason, that feature is now missing, and you can’t find any of the remaining episodes. Garbage. You also can’t download content like every other streaming app can do. Get out now and return these titles to Netflix until you get your big boy pants on. It’s for the best.

by Flygirlzw

Have always loved AMC and have been a faithful TWD fan since the first episode so when we decided to cut the cable I immediately started buying the seasons through Prime. Once the AMC+ app was available I signed up, paid for a full year on the spot and have had NOTHING BUT TROUBLE EVER SINCE! I’ve emailed their help desk but get no real answers just constant apologies and told to check my IOS is current, it is, and to delete and reload app, done that twice. Every episode of every show pauses by itself and then stays stuck in pause. I have to back out of the episode and restart it at least three times per episode, sometimes it’s every ten minutes! But no, they have no idea what’s going on and have no solution for it. This morning I awoke to just find a blank screen, a blazingly bright white blank screen where my AMC+ content should be. Funny how all my other apps work just fine but AMC+ just seems to be a constant issue?!?!?! Just don’t think they care. Just want our money! If they cared they’d be putting out a statement and issuing partial refunds for inconvenience and loss of service.

by JarKat10

I don’t understand how AMCTVShowsMovies launched. It barely works. Every single time I try to open it, it just flashes for a quick second and then closes. It’s not until I sign out and sign back in that AMCTVShowsMovies stays open. I have to do that each time! Even if I logged in earlier that same day. Once you’re in, forget about continuing a show. If you don’t finish something in one sitting, when you log back in, you have to start over. Fast forwarding is a nightmare. Don’t even bother. If you’re watching a show, you have to select the show, season, and episode every single time. There’s no “continue watching” list or feature. When you finish an episode and want to go back a screen to select the next episode, it takes you back to the home screen again. Overall experience is extremely frustrating considering the ease of other streaming apps. Please roll out enhancements to keep up with all the competitors.

by Kaw487

I’m not sure how a streaming app in this day and age can have such a horrible user experience when there are countless other apps to use as a model for what to do. Navigation in mobile versions of AMCTVShowsMovies is not intuitive and it’s really difficult to get around and get to content. Search is awful, I wanted to watch something in the shudder channel but I think I may just have to browse for it if it’s not in the main amc+ content? I’m not sure -because I gave up.

And don’t even get me started on the horrible custom controls for Apple TV - it is impossible to go forward or back in content with any precision. Just use Apple’s default controls (that actually work) and get rid of the crappy custom version. It’s great to have more access to content, especially earlier releases than on cable, but it’s almost not worth it when the amc+ apps are so hard to use. If I hadn’t gotten the inexpensive holiday deal I would have canceled my membership already. There’s no way I would pay full price for this.

If you eventually fix everything else above, the ability for more than one profile in a household would also be helpful.

by Pslocom

I don’t even know how to fully articulate everything that is bad about AMCTVShowsMovies (and I thought the website was bad, somehow AMCTVShowsMovies is worse). It’s almost like it actively works against the user. I just finished an episode, the next one started and it sounded echo-y. That’s odd, maybe if I pause the show and start it again it’ll fix the audio issues… Nope, turns out a second, hidden, copy of the episode had started so when I paused it just kept on going in the background. I can’t even fathom how that happens… There’s no easy way to resume watching anything, if I want to watch the next episode of something I have to go find it without a quick way to start it from the home page, and if I resume an episode it pops up to ask me if I want to resume or restart. Why the extra action? It doesn’t tie into the normal media playback on my iPad so the play/pause button in the control panel starts playing whatever else I had been using before AMCTVShowsMovies. So many more ridiculous issues. Something is very wrong with the development/product team that is working on the streaming platform, please hire some experienced folks.

Glad I subscribed when there was a cheap deal going on, if all of this (what should have been done before any kind of launch) isn’t fixed I definitely won’t be renewing.

by NickBaraniak

I’ve been subscribed for over a year to watch The Walking Dead episodes a week early. I had no problems until the switch was made from AMC Premiere to AMC+. I went to watch an episode one day and AMCTVShowsMovies was completely down and nothing would load. That’s when I found out AMC made Premiere into an exclusive Apple TV channel called AMC+ and I had to re-subscribe and get used to the new app. Not even 2 months later, I pause an episode of World Beyond, come back 40 minutes later and the Apple TV channel no longer lets me watch the episodes in AMCTVShowsMovies without paying for each individual one. The Walking Dead main is gone entirely from the channel and things previously included like Shudder is putting up an additional paywall. It only gives me the option to pay 2.99 for an episode or open up Prime Video, where the episodes are unavailable to even watch. I just found out without being notified (again) that AMC+ now has its own app separate from AMC, where I was able to resubscribe and watch everything there. This is so unnecessarily confusing and AMC giving their paying customers no notification they’re changing platforms multiple times is shameful. Also, they raised the price from $5 to $9 (monthly) in the past year, and these issues and relatively limited library of shows and seasons are not enough to justify the cost.

by ImAManAndAMouse

EDIT: every release you use the same text in your release note. Set your watch by it.

Like everyone else I think the content is great. The mobile app stinks so I cast using Chrome browser from my desktop. The web site stinks too. I am on an endless loop of SSO until it decides it’s ok to log me back in. Press browser Back and it does not bring you to where you were but back to the top of the previous page. Subtitles can not be locked on. Can’t skip intro. The program Info does NOT contain actor names, directors, etc. Pressing Play opens a new tab rather than playing in the current tab. It’s amazing that these simple things (for which there might even be a library already developed) are being ignored. I’m paid for a year so you got that long to make improvements or I’m outta here. Edit: I don’t ‘seem’ to have as many streaming issues as others although I will say the experience is not at all ‘seamless’ like Netflix or Prime. The picture stalls and pixelates. Also that annoying habit of moving the picture to the bottom left (Wrapping Up) to display other shows you can watch while the show you are currently watching still has a good 30 seconds of visual not to mention the credits and not to mention more episodes! I mean who wants that?! Especially when you are binging and can’t control the stream from your couch. Use your own products, UI folx.

by OmicronXerxesGoogleplex III

AMC has some of the best and most affordable content out there for the blindingly simple reason that the prioritize writing. It is a tragic shame that they cannot employ the same sensibilities to app development. This is another grotesquely dysfunctional tribute to the narcissism of clueless developers who think that obsessing over the visuals somehow compensates for total neglect of functionality attuned to the users needs and a bewilderingly, inconsistent interface—only this one is early beta quality at best.

While I in full-rant mode, I need to point out that the by far the worst offender in this space is Apple themselves. Apple is the only player in this space that is capable enough and powerful enough to do what is really happening needed—to develop and implement a protocol for content retrieval and force streaming providers to use it rather than develop there own idiotic apps. That would separate the interface from the content, giving a consistent experience across all services and facilitate a much more user-centric evolution of the interface. Instead, they saw it simply another opportunity to separate their inexplicably loyal users from yet more of their own money in in Apples unending quest for Global Domination. It’s utterly despicable, particularly giving the very high margins charged on the front end for their devices—that should entitle their customers far better treatment than this, as it does for other Apple devices.

by Amandaliberto

I’d give AMCTVShowsMovies zero stars if I could. Much like everyone else, I have the usual issues that it crashes, won’t open, or it’s just buggy. I literally cannot even use it right now because it won’t open, just keeps crashing. For more logistical issues, it never remembers what I watched, what episode I am on, or any of the stuff I put on my list. It acts brand new every time I come on. Never remembers my login, much like everyone else. This goes for the Roku TV app also, as it’s crap, too, but at least I can make it through an episode without it crashing out, I just have to search up my show every week when an episode comes out since it doesn’t save my place. Ever. To be honest, I don’t even think the content on here is worth any of this crap. I got this for Hilarie Burton Morgan’s It Couldn’t Happen Here and Ragdoll starring Lucy Hale, but other than those, there really isn’t much to interest me. I am not going to go down the hole of watching the Walking Dead because that would mean I’d have to keep AMCTVShowsMovies even longer and, honestly, they don’t deserve my money anymore. If Hilarie’s show comes back for a second season, I will consider re-upping my sub, but until then, now that I’ve finished the two shows I got this for, I’m ending my subscription and deleting AMCTVShowsMovies once and for all. Thanks for wasting my time and money, I guess you deserve that much for getting me for as long as you did.

by Agent1Red

Had AMC premier before the change and that was running good. Now with this AMC plus it is a complete mess. Who ever worked on AMCTVShowsMovies and who ever approved the work missed a few bugs. Certain shows like the different walking dead shows have issues. You can’t watch content ahead of time for the premium service you pay. Updating AMCTVShowsMovies is not an option as it’s already part of the apple tv service. Getting AMCTVShowsMovies itself on your device wants you to log in but if you are subscribed to the service through apple tv there is no option to use apple id login. For early access to shows you are redirected to your tv provider app like spectrum or Prime video. I’m a developer and this is definitely broken. Looks to have been broken for a while now and there is absolutely no excuse to not fix this. I don’t mind unsubscribing and loosing my favorite show early access. Purely unacceptable. Don’t waist your money subscribing folks. It’s not worth it.

by AnnetteLovesFootball

I subscribed to this because of a Black Friday deal they were offering and because I really wanted to see A Discovery of Witches. I am giving it 2 because I like the content and I have been able to discover more shows that I enjoy. Otherwise, I would give the actual app zero stars if I could. Cannot create profiles-seriously? This is the very first thing I noticed and still bugs me. Every streaming app has profiles. My wife and I watch different things and it would be nice to have different profiles to differentiate between the two of us. Navigation-absolutely horrible. You have to back all the way out, find the tv series again and then the season then the episode to resume where you stopped watching. Overall navigation is extremely poor. Next episode-does start the next episode. Doesn’t even give you settings to allow the next episode to play or not. Signing in-If I have been out of AMCTVShowsMovies for a while, let’s say 24 hours, I have to log in again. Every time. That is annoying. We live in a world of streaming and other streaming services have set a bar on functionality and AMCTVShowsMovies is not even close to that bar. I have seen similar posts going back months but yet nothing has been updated or done to correct any of the issues mentioned and that is very unfortunate. Unless there are some drastic changes, I will not be continuing my subscription.

by Vrev

I have been using AMCTVShowsMovies for just over a week, and the user experience has been frustrating. I enjoy the content so far, but platform is frustrating to a point that causes me to contemplate continuing the subscription. Main issues include: poor streaming performance (get an “oops!…” message every 10-15 minutes and have to exit app to fix); requirement to sign in with each streaming session (cannot close device and reopen to paused content streaming; “oops!…” message after streaming for an extended period of time that requires complete exit and sign-in to correct; difficulty accessing multiple seasons of a show in progress (all seasons visible upon first view of the show’s landing page, but the link disappears later and you have to search elsewhere in AMCTVShowsMovies for the show to find more seasons); inability to skip pre or post credits; inability to load app on smart tv. I am hopeful that, if enough users document similar experiences, the developers will improve the platform’s performance.

by Stevey McSteverson

You know the little white bar at the bottom of your iPad/iPhone screen that signifies you can pull up the dock? Well with this gem of an app, it remains visible the entire time you’re watching a movie. Why? Because the genius developers at AMC decided that you shouldn’t be allowed to actually fullscreen videos natively. You know, like you can on EVERY SINGLE OTHER modern streaming service. And for what, so they can shove more “watch next” buttons in your face anytime you hit pause? In an app you’re already paying for and using?! Whoever the upper management clown is that made this UX decision needs to lose their job - it’s a red flag that they’re totally out of touch with what it takes to engage and retain customers. What a dumpster fire of an app. Between this and AMC+ not actually carrying all of AMC’s content, it looks like I’ll be canceling this nonsense and sailing the high seas for *ahem* a much more affordable and less user-hostile movie watching experience, if you catch my drift matey.

by Kdando

Now I have to find time for all these new programs. AMCTVShowsMovies user experience is smart and intuitive. Well done, team.

by Jeff122081

Finally all of my favorite and best shows available in one app! What a great deal too!

by G A R R E T T

AMCTVShowsMovies is really fun to use, it feels stylish and cinematic.

by Ip907

Fascinating brand new design, no ads!!