![]() On the one hand, it is filled with FX alums: creator Tom Rob Smith previously wrote the Gianni Versace season of American Crime Story, star Brian Tyree Henry is just coming off of Atlanta, and star Kate Mara played the title character of the 2020 miniseries A Teacher. I bring all this up not to complain about an extremely minor, high-class TV critic problem, but to discuss the confusing experience of the new drama Class of ‘09, which has begun streaming today on Hulu. (*) The exceptions are largely new installments of franchises the debuted on the linear channels, like American Horror Story, and the occasional new show that seems likely to attract a demographic that hasn’t yet cut the cord in huge numbers, like The Old Man. But because the FX-developed shows felt so different from the Hulu-developed ones - and because nearly all of FX’s new series from 2020 onward started going straight to Hulu(*) - it felt all but necessary to keep describing these series as “FX on Hulu,” or “an FX show that’s exclusive to Hulu,” and various other clumsy bits of phrasing. Eventually, that got shortened to a hub simply titled FX, on a service with a frustratingly byzantine interface. ![]() Because FX had become one of TV’s most distinct and acclaimed brands over the past 20 years, the decision was made to place these shows under the new “FX on Hulu” banner. Hulu was already making its own original series like The Handmaid’s Tale, developed by a completely different executive team than the one that had worked on FX’s straight-to-Hulu shows like Devs. It was also, however, extremely confusing. Cutting out the legacy media middleman just seemed like a logical next step toward the medium’s future. ![]() It was an attempt to better integrate different parts of the Disney corporate family in the aftermath of Disney acquiring most of Fox’s film and television assets, as well as an acknowledgment that more and more viewers were waiting to watch shows on streaming. ![]() In the spring of 2020, a handful of shows developed to air on the basic cable channel FX instead debuted exclusively on Hulu. ![]()
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