Cancelling the tattered remains of HBO - but before I go...

[dreamshark]

So some kind of multi-media behemoth calling itself Warner Bros. Discovery has acquired the HBO standalone streaming service and is not even waiting the usual polite interval of a year before ripping it to shreds. As of May 23, the HBO name will be gone, along with most of the quirky SF titles that  made this service worth subscribing to: Beforeigners, Raised by Wolves, The Time Traveler's Wife, An American Pickle, Snowpiercer (which I never did get around to watching) and most shockingly: Westworld (the show that originally sucked me into the HBO subscription). Subscription prices are going up, and the much-trumpeted new content from Warner seems to be mostly derivative spin-offs of Game of Thrones and other mass-market crap. *blecch*

Fortunately, my annual subscription ends June 14, and I have already cancelled the auto-renewal. That gives me about a month to finish up anything I want to watch or rewatch. But there's not much left that interests me. Some of the really good stuff from past decades is still there, including The Wire, Watchmen, Six Feet Under, The Leftovers, The Flight Attendant. But I just rewatched Watchmen and the others seem like too much to dive into at this point. 

So that leaves... White House Plumbers, a series which reimagines the Watergate saga as a farcical sitcom. 
 

Comments

[bibliofile]

FWIW, I recall that Six Feet Under had individual that also included overarching stories. But the main focus of each episode was the person(s) who died and needs attention from the funeral home.

OTOH, SFU & The Wire are both aavailable on DVD from your library, which is a quaint form of technology now (lol).

[carbonel]

Grump. If HBOMax is going away, I'll lose my access to The Great Pottery Throw Down, which I'm only halfway through.

[dreamshark]

It's not exactly going away, it's been mergered. Your subscription will roll over to the new HBO-less Max. They have purged many of their flagship shows over the past few months, and may eventually remove the one you are watching, but I doubt it will just disappear on May 23.