Consistently buggy, makes for a very frustrating viewing experience

FX produces some great shows but this app makes watching them almost unbearable. I would liken using this app to watch FXs programming to going to a fine restaurant and having ones meal served on a dirty dish with a broken glass for ones beverage and bent utensils for eating. The app has been buggy and slow for as long as I have used it. In some ways it may have gone some improvements, but it is still plagued by numerous, consistent issues.

I am surprised that this app does not offer a brief rewind feature, something which is standard on most other video apps I am familiar with. One of the biggest problems with the lack of that feature is that one cannot reliably back up for for a discreet portion of the video. If one needs to rewind just after commercials have played they may find that they are forced to watch all the commercials just viewed a second time prior to continuing with the program. Rather then being able to back up for a few seconds to catch something I missed in the program I have been watching I now find myself writing this review as I have to re-watch the commercials myself.

While Im here I would like to mention that the closed-captioning feature on this app will not disable for me regardless of whether or not the closed-captioning is turned on. Worse yet, the closed-captioning often displays near the top of the screen, usually over characters faces.

The issues I experience with this app make for a very subpar viewing experience. It is difficult to understand why FX would settle for this kind of poor quality in their playback.

H.T. Glover about FXNOW: Movies, Shows & Live TV