Lifetime: TV Shows & Movies

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1. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

   Incredibly annoying to use. They’ve made Lifetime the only place you can watch MAFS and it’s almost impossible to watch it. The player itself is buggy. The play and skip buttons stay on the screen unless you tap it the right number of times. Skipping ahead or back is stupid because it takes it a few seconds to actually skip after you hit the button and then the audio doesn’t align right away with the video. If you want to go back a full minute or two, it takes forever. The ads are also buggy. Sometimes it gives you a choice: 30 seconds of an ad you interact with, or two minutes of an ad you don’t interact with. If you pick the 30 second one and interact with it, after you click “go back to video” it will give you another 30 seconds of black screen plus another ad before you can go back to the video. If you click two minutes, sometimes it will give you a black screen, sometimes it’ll play a couple of ads, sometimes it’ll play a full 5 minutes of ads (four ads, with just one individual one being 2 minutes). The ads are all the same and it’s like they’re specifically selected to be the worst ones. The miniplayer will often go black after an ad plays and you have to re-open the app to start it again. The hundreds of episodes are all in a long list rather than divided by season. Selecting a season just takes you to a place on the list. The episodes are also numbered improperly at times. With some effort, I get to watch my show. That’s the only good thing I can say about it. Wish they’d put it back on Prime.

2. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Glitchy. Horrible streaming, glitching, and skipping parts

3. ★★★★★ads disrupt the experience

   Too many ads. I know your app is crumbling because nobody cares about any show there except dance moms and thats over with but it's sooooo many ads

4. ★★★★★paying for a subscription

   THE ADS ARE OUTRAGEOUS 🤯. Listen I understand that the ads help keep the app free but come on now. I feel like every 5 minutes I’m watching one. Pretty sure the life time on regular tv doesn’t even have this many commercials! Fix the problem that literally EVERYONE is complaining about and maybe you’ll get a better rating.

5. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Not user friendly. It is not easy to navigate.

6. ★★★★★ads disrupt the experience

   I feel tricked. When you sign up for the service it states no commercials that is not true the ads are extremely long and about every 15 minutes during a movie

7. ★★★★★ads disrupt the experience

   Gotta love ads!. I love watching 5 minutes of ads every 15 minutes :)! But seriously, the amount of ads is ridiculous.

8. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   TERRIBLE. I should not have to stop my show 4,5,6 times to refresh so the words will catch up with their lips! Ridiculous. I have multiple streaming apps and NONE give me the problems this app has! Deleting the app, and will find other ways to watch my shows!

9. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Worst app ever. I don't understand why I need to have a cable provider just to watch movies and shows.

10. ★★★★★ads disrupt the experience

    No. I really don’t recommend I only watch dance moms, but I accidentally went out and when I went back on, I could not find the episode so I had to watch ads to get back to it. I do not recommend unless you want to watch ads and get lost on the episode and only watch episodes you didn’t finish.

11. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    So frustrating. Honestly the worst streaming app I’ve ever used. There is no app on my TV so I have to pull it up on my phone and then cast it to my tv and it is always laggy and the video is completely out of sync with the audio. The show also turns off and I have to recast it and then the show starts over and I have to try to find out which part I was at, but then I have to watch an ad every time I change the time stamp. Plus there are just so many ads, which is whatever because it’s free, but I also pay for cable in order to get the channel and be able to watch these shows and the ads are always the same and it’s just really annoying. Very frustrated.

12. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Doesn’t Keep Track Correctly and Can’t Pause. I enjoy the actual shows I watch on this app - but the app itself is not great. It does not ever correctly keep track of where I left off on show, and I am unable to pause (the button just doesn’t work) a show. I am on an updated iphone and the Lifetime app is up to date. Please fix.

13. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Too many adds , not every episode. I’m watching tv shows and movies on the lifetime app and it’s every minute I’m getting adds I can’t even watch the movies and the shows in peace for a second .Im watching dance moms and theirs 236 episodes and they only give me 225 episodes of dance moms

14. ★★★★★ads disrupt the experience

    App. The app is terrible. Ads every few minutes often they get stuck they say 39 sec and it’s much longer. They often say Debugged. Just not a good experience

15. ★★★★★ads disrupt the experience

    Interactive Ads. I love the shows on Lifetime however I HATE the ads. Just be like the rest of the networks and just show ads. All of this interactive ads and the other ad options often keep me from watching Lifetime period.

16. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    glitching and excessive ads. the amount of times that this app glitches continuously has officially ticked me off. whether it’s the subtitles, or it pausing all together. i was always have to re open the app just for it to glitch again a few minutes in. AND THE OVERUSE OF ADS, like i understand the fact that you need to profit, but when im choosing my ad option, which is typically the 30 second interactive, why are you STILL giving me four more on top of that??? it’s the dishonesty and glitching. i have truly had it, fix your app!

17. ★★★★★ads disrupt the experience

    Way too many commercials.. There are so many commercial breaks. The app gets glitchy during commercials and freezes up. When you reopen the app you have to watch all the same commercials again. You cant rewind without immediately watching more commercials.

18. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Why platform the Chrissleys?. I know your network struggles to get good content but why highlight rich white people getting away with crime while innocent black and brown people are being kidnapped? SHAMEFUL

19. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Video play. For the love of all things…. Please catch up to ALL of the other streaming apps and figure out how to allow picture-in-picture mode so we can watch the show but also do other things on our phone. So inconvenient that it stops playing if I have to answer a message!!!😤

20. ★★★★★ads disrupt the experience

    Horrible. You don’t have the option for me to choose who my carrier is so therefore I can’t watch 90% of what you have. As far there being a 3 minute ad every 2 minutes-that’s ridiculous. I’m about to delete the app & several of my friends & family are doing the same.

21. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Grb. Get grb off your network she’s evil

22. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Worst app ever. I would rather cut my left nut off than use this app again. Freezes every 5 seconds. And to leave this awful review I had to add a nickname to this post and they were all taken

23. ★★★★★ads disrupt the experience

    Worst app. This app has way too many ads. For every 6-7 minutes of the show one has to watch 3+ minutes of ads. This is worse than watching tv channels.

24. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Gypsy gRosee. It’s disgusting how lifetime is promoting a mom murderer. Putting all her private sexual stuff out there.

25. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Disgusting. Not much of a choice and 97% of their movies are all about killing… deleted…

26. ★★★★★a needed feature is missing

    The Support of Gypsy Rose. I’m not a Karen or a GypHateTrain but It’s upsetting to see they’re not doing their due diligence and proper research on her case and contributing to all of the false narratives put out by that family, for them to profit off of this story line of MBP that her mother wasn’t ever even diagnosed with. There are SO many contradictions with her case and her own stories, where it’s obvious things don’t add up and the math isn’t mathing. She should have never been given this platform and justice was never served.

27. ★★★★★inaccurate results and incorrect data

    Lifetime Monitizes Murderers!. I’m seriously appalled and disgusted with the Lifetime network. I used to LOVE Lifetime. Now however, Lifetime has decided that they are going to incorrectly portray a person who is a MURDERER! Gypsy Rose Blanchard is not innocent. Lifetime, look at the FOIA documents. Stop providing false information to the public. You are causing danger to the public in doing so. If I could boycott this network to go out of business, I would do so in a heartbeat. Have the day you deserve.

28. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    App does not work. Says there’s an update and when you hit update it doesn’t update the app and it will not open. I’ve also tried to uninstall and reinstall

29. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Update this app. This is one of the worst apps so you start watching a movie and then in the middle of the movie it stops and you can’t watch it anymore. The app needs to be updated or something needs to happen but this isn’t a good app. Don’t get too into a movie because it won’t continue to play

30. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Update. This app had a pop up that said update and you couldn't get in the app it said to go to app store an then when I tried to update it it only said open and the update is only for iOS. 16.4 which I think is kinda stupid like people just wanna watch there favorite shows