July 29th, 2008 by Jemaleddin Cole

During the writers’ strike, Joss Whedon and some assorted mem­bers of his family wrote a musi­cal comedy called Dr. Horrible’s Sing-​Along Blog, filmed it with Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fil­lion and Feli­cia Day, and then streamed it for free on the Inter­net a few weeks ago. That’s right - the stream­ing is over, and you prob­a­bly missed it. 

But don’t despair! You can buy each of the 3 about-15 minute episodes for $1.99 each from iTunes, get a season pass for all 3 episodes for $3.99 from iTunes, or watch the whole thing for free on Hulu. I, of course, didn’t know about the Hulu link until after I’d felt pretty smug about get­ting the $4 deal, so I can’t imag­ine how smug you’ll feel about seeing it for free.

And yes, it’s just as good as you’re imag­in­ing it will be, and for Buffy fans there are extra sur­prises in the form of cameos by David Fury (Mus­tard Man!) and Marti Noxon (Park­ing Ticket Girl!) who did such fine work in Once More with Feel­ing, the best musi­cal of the last 20 years.

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5 Responses to “Dr. Horrible: $6, $4 or Free?”

  1. For $4 every­one should just go ahead and buy it anyway, con­sider it an invest­ment - the more it makes the more poten­tial for future episodes - and as you said about how good it is - I know I sure want more! There’s also a super awe­some DVD coming out some time before the end of the year loaded with bonus stuff includ­ing musi­cal com­men­tary (as well as a reg­u­lar one) track

    — Anon July 30th, 2008 at 9:21 am #

  2. Oh, totally. I sure don’t feel bad about paying for some­thing that awe­some.

    — Jemaleddin Cole July 30th, 2008 at 9:34 am #

  3. I watched it when it was free. I thought I passed along the URL… oops. :)

    — c.s. July 30th, 2008 at 10:28 am #

  4. Evi­dently, that got caught by my chadspam filter. Which, you know, not enough things end up in.

    — Jemaleddin Cole July 30th, 2008 at 12:25 pm #

  5. HA. Pay for Doogie? HA.

    — Canadiens Fan August 5th, 2008 at 2:24 pm #

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