What is Disney Plus Star?

Back in 2021 Disney brought all its Star content on to Disney Plus in Australia. When Disney's otherwise family-friendly streaming service launched in Australia, many were left wondering whether Hulu would also launch locally. Now, with the Disney Plus Star, it is abundantly clear that Disney isn't shying away from mature content locally.

Disney Plus Star is a new streaming destination for the more mature content The Walt Disney Company acquired when it purchased 21st Century Fox back in 2017. 

Disney Plus Star isn’t a separate streaming service, but an add-on or evolution of the streaming app you may already use. Think of Star like a separate channel you can access via the Disney Plus app. To coincide with the launch of Star’s more mature TV shows and movies, Disney also be updated its parental control features, allowing users to set content restrictions and PIN codes on certain user profiles. That feels necessary, considering the launch of Star invites the likes of Alien, Deadpool, and Die Hard to shack up with Mickey Mouse and co.

Paying for Star isn’t optional with your Disney Plus subscription. The latest price hikes take the pricing up to $15.99/mth for the standard subscription, ot $159.99 for an annual fee instead. The premium sub is also going up to $20.99/mth, or 209.99/year.

In addition to four Star Original TV shows, Disney initially dropped 155 TV shows with the launch of Star, but the catalogue is up these days. Now there are thousands of hours of television, and movie content available to stream on demand.

The TV library is made up of a lot of Hulu and Fox TV shows. Highlights include the animated comedy Bob’s Burgers, sci-fi cult favourite Firefly, Ryan Murphy’s high school musical Glee, seasons 1 to 11 of The X Files, and the award-winning sitcom Black-ish.

Check out the full list of Disney Plus Star TV shows here, or check out our top picks below.

Big Sky is a procedural police drama from David E. Kelly (Ally McBeal, Boston Legal), starring Vikings’ Kathryn Winnick. It follows Winnick’s Jenny Hoyt, an ex-cop who joins her private detective ex and his partner in a search for two missing girls who were kidnapped by a truck driver in Montana.

Love, Victor is Hulu’s TV series follow-up to the massively popular 2018 movie Love, Simon. Set in the same universe as Love, Simon, the sequel series explores a lot of the same themes of self-discovery.

Solar Opposites is the follow-up series from Rick and Morty co-creators Justin Roiland and Mike McMahan. It’s essentially a family sitcom in the vein of The Simpsons, American Dad, and Family Guy that follows a family of aliens from a “better world who are forced to take refuge in America”. The animation style is indistinguishable from Rick and Morty, and the family patriarch is voiced by Roiland (who voiced both Rick and Morty) so if you’re a fan you should get a kick out of Solar Opposites.

This Hulu-produced Marvel Cinematic Universe tie-in follows super siblings Damon and Ana Helstrom, the children of a serial killer, as they hunt down the “worst of humanity”. Don’t get too invested in this one, it was already canned in December 2020.

A whole lotta Fox. That includes every Die Hard movie, every Alien movie (yes, including Alien vs. Predator), the modern Planet of the Apes trilogy and more. But perhaps most important is the small batch of Fox-produced Marvel content making its way to Disney Plus Star. Both Deadpool movies and Logan are there, and the newer Deadpool & Wolverine. 

Check out the full list of Disney Plus Star movies here. 

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