How to Watch 'Three Busy Debras' Online Without Cable

There is no shortage of Adult Swim shows starring men but now women are finally crashing the party. The first female-led Adult Swim show is Three Busy Debras, a new comedy about three busy women all named Debra. It premieres Sunday, March 29 at midnight ET (as Sunday rolls into Monday, March 30).

If you don’t have cable, you can watch a live stream of Cartoon Network/Adult Swim on your computer, phone, Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV or other streaming device via one of the following cable-free, live-TV streaming subscription services:

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FuboTV

Cartoon Network/Adult Swim is one of 95-plus live TV channels included in the main FuboTV bundle.

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Once signed up for FuboTV, you can watch a live stream of Three Busy Debras on your computer via the FuboTV website, or on your phone (Android and iPhone supported), tablet, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast or other supported device via the FuboTV app.

If you can’t watch live, FuboTV comes with 30 hours of Cloud DVR (with the ability to upgrade to 500 hours), as well as a “72-Hour Lookback” feature, which allows you to watch new episodes up to three days after they air even if you didn’t record them.

Hulu With Live TV

Cartoon Network/Adult Swim is included in Hulu With Live TV, which comes with 60-plus live TV channels and Hulu’s extensive on-demand library of TV shows and movies:

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Once signed up for Hulu With Live TV, you can watch a live stream of Three Busy Debras on your computer via the Hulu website, or on your phone (Android and iPhone supported), tablet, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Echo Show or other streaming device via the Hulu app.

If you can’t watch live, “Hulu with Live TV” comes with both its extensive on-demand library (which has new episodes available after they air) and 50 hours of Cloud DVR storage (with the ability to upgrade to “Enhanced Cloud DVR,” which gives you 200 hours of DVR space and the ability to fast forward through commercials).

AT&T TV Now

AT&T TV Now (formerly DirecTV Now) offers six different channel bundles. They range from 45 to 125 live TV channels, and they all include Cartoon Network/Adult Swim.

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Once signed up for AT&T TV Now, you can watch a live stream of Three Busy Debras on your computer via the AT&T TV Now website, or on your phone (Android and iPhone supported), tablet Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast, or other compatible streaming device via the AT&T TV app.

If you can’t watch live, AT&T TV Now — no matter what channel package you choose — comes with included cloud DVR.

‘Three Busy Debras’ Preview

Three Busy Debras is created by and stars Sandy Honig, Mitra Jouhari, and Alyssa Stonoha, who are also executive producers alongside Amy Poehler and Kim Lessing. The titular three Debras all live in an affluent suburb called Lemoncurd and are involved in all kinds of suburban activities that keep them very busy. It’s sort of like The Stepford Wives by way of Adult Swim.

The show actually started as a one-act play in Brooklyn when the stars were between the ages of 19 and 23. According to a Vice article about the play, it touched on “incest, necrophilia, the Holocaust, 9/11, Kony 2012, kidnapping, pedophilia, suicide, matricide, masturbation, infidelity committed with ghosts, and brunch.”

Within the trio, the first Debra is a white supremacist, the second one is having an inappropriate relationship with her autistic son, and the third believes there’s no such thing as rape.

“They have no historical or cultural context for anything,” Stonoha told Vice, with Jouhari adding, “They’re not consciously trying to be terrible — they just are because they’re dumb.”

The play’s director Jake Fogelnest said that it’s meant to be shocking, but he thinks the creators get away with the shocking content because it’s done in a smart way and offers a pointed commentary on life in the digital age.

“There’s something about three young women who are clearly brilliant writers and clearly brilliant performers, who are also clearly strong feminists. In a way, it’s sort of like, ‘Let’s take all of the worst things that we’re afraid of and that we’re sick of, embrace them, and reflect it back to people.’ You can joke about anything. It just has to be smart,” said Fogelnest.

Now five years later, the play has come to Adult Swim. It sounds like the show is slightly toned down from the one-act play… but not by much.

“One’s a b*tch, one’s a c*nt, one’s a moron,” Honig told Vulture in a recent interview. “They’re all based on our personalities, so you have to guess which one is which.”

She added, “A lot of the way we write these characters is knowing the Debras are bad women. The Debras are absolutely capitalist; they’re absolutely not feminists. They’re absolutely not intersectional. That also comes across in the treatment of Mitra’s Debra. We treat [her] as ‘other’ because she is a not-white Debra.”

The creators are also very excited to be the first women-led Adult Swim show, especially because they knew Adult Swim would be the perfect landing place for their brand of humor.

“It’s mostly just exciting to us because this is a place where we felt like we could do what we wanted to do, and it was where we wanted to make a show, so it actually happening was really, really cool to us,” said Jouhari.

Three Busy Debras premieres Sunday, March 29 at midnight on Adult Swim.

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