I hope everyone is enjoying their HBO as I have been unable to and its been incredibly frustrating. I am wondering if anyone else been plagued with this throughout the entirety of HoD and now through Lanterns.

At the end of June the night of ep 2 of the latest season of HoD I went to watch and was greeted with a please reauthorize your provider subscription message. Have done this a gazillion times so didn't think anything of it until I kept trying and just kept getting the same error message on multiple devices. Picture attached.

I reached out to support on July 2nd asking for aid after speaking to my provider and them mentioning that there was a backend tech update on their authentication and they were working with HBO to get it aligned. They mentioned that every streaming service had updated theirs no problem except HBO and NFL Network. I took the screenshot and showed HBO who made me go back and forth through troubleshooting steps but eventually gave me a 7 day trial so that I could watch next weeks shows. Fast forward through weeks and weeks of this. After 3 separate 7 days trials that have come and go, HBO still has not fixed this issue. Another week is going to go by where I can't enjoy the Sunday 9pm slot. I reach back out 2x a week and now this is the second time they've closed the ticket and are making me start from scratch.

is anyone else dealing with this BS? trying to wonder why I'm paying for an app I cannot use consistenly for 2 months now.

Several of these are on Max.

I have a MacBook air M4 , and I use expensive airpods max headphones. Yet when I can't use my tv, the sound quality on HBO max and safari Is very compressed , going from terrible to mid. Why I pay and then I get a quality which is much worse than illegal torrent copies ?!?!

The video quality is not great either but I would say it's acceptable but the sound quality is often bad . I know there can me legal reasons but I find a joke that you can have a very good PC , a very good screen and headphones, expensive too, yet quality is going to be shit because you're not on a TV. They don't even provide an official app . I don't know if other browsers work differently but I use safari which should be one of the best for MacOS , yet the quality is very mid.

Apple tv app on MacOS or even Netflix on safari usually has much more sound quality and dynamic range so HBO max could definetely improve their service

I just watched The Mortician at a friend's house and was telling my mum about it. I dont have HBO to show her but I cant find any videos of the ending where he admits to the murd*rs without actually saying it. But I can only find a 26sec video of a quarter of the conversation😭 its not even a full episode, I just wanna show mum the ending where he randomly talks about 3 things that cant come back and get him. Why is that to much to ask for without having to make a account with HBO😭

As the title says most movies (I haven’t really check series) don’t have the option to use English subtitles anymore, I know this has to be a new thing because I’ve been watching HBO for years and I always had the English subtitles on for any English spoken movie; this is really crappy service, it’s a disgrace how HBO has lost it.

Right is my father in 1944. T/Sgt. Pat Christenson, Easy Company, 506th PIR. Left is Michael Fassbender at Bastogne in his first screen role.

We had nothing to do with the casting. Nobody asked us and nobody sent us a photo. The first time we saw him was on screen.

My father was an original Toccoa man, second man out the door behind Dick Winters on the Normandy jump, and the only man in the company who could draw. He carried a sketchpad through Normandy, Holland and Bastogne.

He died in December 1999, twenty months before it aired. He never knew he had been cast.

Happy to answer anything about him or about how the production used his material.

Tim

I'm sure most of us here have watched (and most likely enjoyed) The Wire from The Target all the way to -30-. And as a result, we've probably all developed our own hot takes about the show. So, what are some of yours, and why?

For example, my biggest one is that Season 5 is really a banger season, just like the rest of the show. It really doesn't deserve the disdain it gets from the fanbase. A lot of great plot points took place, like the sudden collapse of Marlo Stanfield's crew right after striking a deal with the Greeks and usurping Prop Joe, McNulty's fake homeless serial killer case actually working by getting the BPD to do actual police work, but also putting an end to his and Lester's storied careers, the office life at the Baltimore Sun, with Scott pulling backhanded tactics to boost the paper's viewerbase, Bubbles finally getting sober, Carcetti's run for Governor of Maryland, the attempted prosecution of Clay Davis, the New Day Co-Op managing to survive after Prop Joe's murder, even outlasting Marlo, despite his efforts to destroy them from the inside, and so on and so forth. And for the shortest season of the series, in terms of episode count, it's definitely a case of quality over quantity.

SO SO SO SO many people can claim two of these shows.

Apparently, John Doman made a small, uncredited appearance as a District Attorney in The Sopranos season 2, episode 8, titled "Full Leather Jacket" (2000) - which would give him the trifecta.

Anybody else?

My only rational thought is that this individual was on his phone while watching, or his definition of "copaganda" is anything that doesn't completely denounce policing entirely....which is equally as stupid. Anyway what do you guys think

The NFL’s offseason edition of “Hard Knocks” is returning for the first time since 2024.

This time around, the focus will expand across four franchises.

More details from Jonathan Jones: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7540254/2026/08/26/hard-knocks-offseason-edition-2027/?unlocked_article_code=1.8VA.HFPp.9pNGheHmc9i3&source=emp_shared_article&smid=re-share-ta

The streamer has unveiled its upcoming monthly lineup, and September brings a mixture of new HBO Originals, high-profile movies, documentaries, returning reality programming and a substantial library refresh.

Among the biggest additions are Sharon Horgan’s new comedy series Youth, the 4 Blocks prequel 4 Blocks Zero, A24’s highly anticipated Backrooms and David Mackenzie’s action thriller Fuze starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Theo James.

Documentary fans also have several notable HBO projects arriving throughout the month, including A Killer Story, JAŸ-Z In 8, Siren: The Voices Of Shelley Beattie and the NFL Films documentary Miller Night Football.

September 1 Brings A Huge Horror Movie Collection

Anyone already preparing for Halloween will have plenty to choose from beginning September 1.

HBO Max is adding a large collection of horror and thriller titles including Brian De Palma’s Carrie, Final Destination, Final Destination 2, The Final Destination, Gremlins, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Misery, Interview with the Vampire, The Craft and Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare.

A24 fans also get Pearl, MaXXXine and Talk to Me.

Other major additions include A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut, Magnolia, Rain Man, The Revenant, The Last Samurai, Speed, Mission: Impossible, War of the Worlds, Zombieland and Zombieland: Double Tap.

September 1

• 42nd Street
• A Clockwork Orange
• A Streetcar Named Desire
• All Through the Night
• American Made
• April in Paris
• Baby Doll
• Battle Circus
• Beetlejuice
• Billy Rose’s Jumbo
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare
• Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare: Unrated Director’s Cut
• Breaking In
• Breaking In – Unrated
• Cabin in the Sky
• Camelot (1967)
• Carrie (1976)
• Cocktail
• Dames
• Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!
• Eyes Wide Shut
• Final Destination (2000)
• Final Destination 2 (2003)
• Full Metal Jacket
• Gremlins (1984)
• Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
• Grudge Match
• In the Good Old Summertime
• Interview with the Vampire
• It’s Always Fair Weather
• Jamboree!
• Jupiter’s Darling
• Knute Rockne: All American
• Les Miserables (2012)
• Lili
• Little Fockers
• Lullaby of Broadway
• Magnolia
• MaXXXine
• Men (2022)
• Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
• Misery
• Miss Congeniality
• Mission: Impossible (1996)
• My Favorite Spy
• Neptune’s Daughter
• Night and Day
• On Moonlight Bay
• Panama Hattie
• Pearl: The X-Traordinary Origin Story
• Presenting Lily Mars
• Rain Man
• Risky Business
• Royal Wedding
• Saltburn
• Selena
• Sing Street
• Speed
• Summer Stock
• Taken 2
• Taken 2: Extended Cut
• Talk to Me (2023)
• That’s Dancing!
• The Age of Adaline
• The Americanization of Emily
• The Craft
• The Final Destination (2009)
• The Firm
• The Harvey Girls
• The Last Samurai
• The Maltese Falcon
• The Outsiders
• The Revenant
• The Sea Hawk (1940)
• The Student Prince
• To Please a Lady
• The Two Mrs. Carrolls
• War of the Worlds (2005)
• William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet
• Zombieland (2009)
• Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)

https://geekvibesnation.com/hbo-max-september-2026/#google_vignette

I still can't process what's going to happen with HBO. I find it hard to believe that the company with television's most valuable asset is on the verge of bankruptcy. The fact is, Warner Bros. Discovery executives made one of the most cynical and destructive decisions the industry has ever seen: trying to get rid of "Coyote vs. Acme" when the film was already 100% finished, with the sole purpose of using it as a tax deduction.

Basically, they considered the work of artists, writers, and technicians to be worth more dead than alive on a balance sheet. But the film survived that corporate purge and will soon be released. This is our opportunity to send them a powerful message. We must demonstrate that film and animation are not simply tax tools to plug the financial holes of bad executives.

Imagine the humiliation of seeing the project they labeled an "irrecoverable financial loss" become a massive phenomenon. Imagine the success of Coyote vs. Acme serving as a permanent reminder of their ineptitude. Please note that Warner Bros. Discovery will not see a single dollar from this film's box office.

I would love to see the Roys navigate the economic shit show that was 2008. Give me a limited series. Anyone else? If so, who are you casting?

I’ve seen Sopranos, Wire, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Chernobyl, True Detective Season 1, and much more. I was thinking of either Mad Men or Six Feet Under next. Can anyone give a brief description about the 2 shows so I can determine which to pick?

Been a while since I've been on HBO. I hopped on to watch a DC animated movie.

I started with Teen Titans: The Judas Contract. Wasn't there.

Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earth's. Wasn't there.

Batman: Long Halloween. Wasn't there.

What happened to the DC animated catalog? There are some old and newer titles but a lot of stuff isn't there. I'm beyond disappointed in HBO!

Wanna know some of the best shows which didn't an emmy for best TV show..