The animating spirit of Fox Nation, the Trump-friendly network’s new video-streaming offering, is inadvertently revealed in the fifth episode Brian Kilmeade’s travelogue show, What Made America Great. Dressed in a sharp blue-checked shirt, the Fox & Friends host strolls through Andrew Jackson’s former plantation, absorbing the majesty of America’s seventh president. “Walking around, you get the sense that Andrew Jackson just left,” he marvels, admiring the poplar-wood columns and military portraits lining the Hermitage.

Like many programs on the so-called “Netflix for conservatives,” the pastoral scene—Kilmeade in gingham, colonnades, portraiture—is unnervingly familiar. In fact, much of the footage from What Made America Great is recycled from Andrew Jackson: Hero Under Fire, overlaid with new narration, graphics, and calming piano music. The same promotional image and footage appears again in America: Great from the Start, Kilmeade’s live lecture series wherein he summarizes historical events covered in his nonfiction books (in this case, 2017’s Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans).

Recycled content appears to be part of the Fox Nation business model. If Fox News exists to serve red meat, Fox Nation is its mechanically separated byproduct—extra bits scraped off the carcasses of more profitable franchises, puréed, and shaped into spongy content nuggets. It is unapologetically a platform of B-sides. The impetus behind Fox Nation’s launch is fairly obvious; the brand appears to be a naturally recurring retirement community trying to keep apace in a dynamic media ecosystem. The network’s average viewer is 64 years old, 21st Century Fox has sold the majority of its entertainment assets to Disney, and the next generation of viewers is cutting the cord. (“It’s scary, right?” Kilmeade told The New York Times, recalling a conversation with his son: “He’s like, ‘Dad, nobody’s watching cable anymore.’”) For $5.99 a month, the subscription platform promises to deliver extra-special content from its deep bench of talent, and to provide an exclusive entre into their world. The sign-up-screen video shows Kilmeade and Co. at a party, popping the corks off champagne bottles and playing pool. Below, a tantalizing promise: “More of the content you love from the people you trust.”

What Fox Nation actually delivers is mostly exhausting to watch, made by exhausted people: short, 7- to 20-minute Web-exclusive videos that wouldn’t make the cut on traditional cable television. Red Eye’s Tom Shillue hosts a very awkward quiz show (first guest: Jesse Watters, gamely enduring 9 minutes of forced banter); in addition to his cable program, Varney and Co., Stuart Varney has 10 minutes to fill with My Take with Stuart Varney; Greg Gutfeld, who already hosts an interview show, cobbles a shorter version together for the Web. The format will be either comfortingly familiar or maddeningly repetitive, depending on the viewer. There’s The Wise Guys, a Web-only retread of The Five, in which five people sit around a table to discuss the news of the day. Legal analyst Gregg Jarrett hosts an original documentary, Gregg Jarrett’s The Russia Hoax, based on his book of the same name. Fox News contributor Bill Bennett hosts Patriot’s Almanac, based on his book . . . Patriot’s Almanac. And so on.

The rest of the content library is mostly comprised of archival properties, including old episodes of popular shows (Watters’[s] World) and old Fox News documentaries, some of which aired more than a decade ago. A true-crime series called Scandalous (Chappaquidick-ian in topic matter) falls into the latter category, as do various religious programs (One Nation Under God, Losing Faith in America?), and, for self-evident reasons, an Anna Nicole Smith documentary. Some haven’t aged well. Planned Parenthood: The Hidden Harvest, which aired in 2015, champions activist David Daleiden’s controversial hidden-camera stings on abortion clinics. Shortly thereafter, Daleiden was charged with conspiracy to illegally record confidential conversations and contempt of court, and ordered to pay Planned Parenthood’s legal fees. Others contain Easter eggs: Freedom Rising, a 2011 documentary about the construction of the Freedom Tower, features a younger, surprisingly lucid Donald Trump offering thoughtful architectural criticism.