How to watch Hulu together with a friend

Short answer To watch Hulu together in sync, install the Watch Peak Party extension in both browsers, open the episode at hulu.com/watch/…, click the WP badge, press Start party and send the invite link. Each of you streams from your own Hulu account at full quality — only the position in the episode travels between you.

Hulu has no group-watch feature of its own, so every answer to "how do we watch this together" is a third-party one. The good news is that Hulu's web player is a fairly ordinary one, so a party on Hulu behaves the way you would expect. The wrinkle is ads, and it is worth understanding before you plan a film night around it.

What you need

• Chrome 116 or newer, or another Chromium browser — Edge, Brave and Arc all run it. That floor is minimum_chrome_version in the manifest, not a guess.
• The extension in both browsers. Playback is kept in step by the extension running on each side, so the person you are watching with installs it too. It is the only thing either of you has to do more than once.
• Your own Hulu access. A party shares the position in a video, never the video itself and never your session. You each sign in to your own account.
• Both of you in a country where Hulu operates. Hulu is not available everywhere, and a party cannot change that — the extension synchronises playback, it does not route video.

The walkthrough

1. Open the title in the player

   Press play on Hulu so the address becomes hulu.com/watch/<id>. That id is what the room points at, so both of you land on the same episode rather than the same series hub.

2. Click the badge, press Start party

   The panel opens over the page without resizing the player.

   

3. Send the invite link

   Copy it and send it. One link, one click on their side.

   

4. Press play when they appear

   When the Watching list shows two people, press play. Either side can drive from then on.

   

✓ You are done when a pause on one side stops the other inside a second or so, and both players show the same frame.

Ad breaks and what they do to a party

On an ad-supported Hulu plan, breaks are inserted by Hulu for each viewer independently. Two consequences:

• Your breaks may not land together. One of you can be watching an ad while the other is still in the scene. Neither player is wrong.
• Ad time is not content time. A party corrects position when the two sides drift more than about half a second, so the person still in the show is not dragged backwards by the person in a break — the correction resolves once both are back on content.

If you find breaks genuinely disruptive, the honest options are the ad-free tier or a short pause after each break to re-align with Sync now.

Talking during a show, not over it

The panel gives you three registers, and the reason there are three is that a comedy and a thriller want different ones:

• Text chat — unlimited, free, and silent. The default.
• Push-to-talk on ` — your microphone opens only while you hold it.
• An open microphone — press once and talk freely. Best for a rewatch.

Common questions