Carrie Coon And Her Husband Have An Enormous Blu-ray Collection

Physical media is on life support. People prefer the convenience of streaming, even though the quality of films and TV shows will be lessened when streamed. Most people likely don’t care. They want to watch a new movie from the comfort of their home without having to go get it. It makes some projects more accessible but leaves others lost in the shuffle. For instance, if you want to watch Spice World, you can only do so with a DVD or VHS. Two people who may not have this issue are Carrie Coon and Tracy Letts.

Coon recently appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and told him about her husband’s addiction. At first, she thought Tracy had been looking at pornography. He had been perusing a website called DVDBeaver. It was a fair assumption to make. Instead, it turns out that Letts “doesn’t approve of streaming,” and would rather collect Blu-rays. Carrie claims they have 10,000 in their collection.

The genesis of this story is sweet. Coon’s husband began showing movies to their son at a young age. It started with silent films and has now moved on to, exclusively, Godzilla films in Japanese (the kids are alright). So anytime their kid wants to watch his favorite Kaiju, he can venture into what I assume looks like an in-home video store and not see the picture throttled by streaming.

The best part of this whole story is DVDBeaver’s reaction to it. Being a lover of physical media myself, I ventured to the site to peruse their wares. The site looks and feels older, with a no-frills approach to point people in the direction of sweet physical media that I appreciate. Still, there has been one recent update. The site added the video of Coon right at the top of the page.