HBO Max Recommendations

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I keep my streaming pretty streamlined (I primarily use Kanopy and AP, but also use to NF and Shudder), but a 7-day trial of HBO Max popped up and I joined if only to finish binging Peacemaker and watch a coupla Steven Soderbergh films only available here.
I might consider keeping it if I can find some other worthy watches…

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KIMI
Soderbergh dips back into genre territory and reveals that he digs unhinged female characters (this endeavor shares a bit of DNA with Unsane).
It’s also an unabashed ode to Hitchcock by way of DePalma, owing more to the latter in terms of tension, skewed camera angles, taut score, and gore.
It’s pretty much Rear Window meets Blow Out, with dashes of Disclosure and elements of The Net tossed in for good measure.
David Koepp’s script is teeming with recognizable tropes and familiar cliches, but gets by thanks to Soderbergh’s slick directing and excellent grasp of pacing, not to mention Zoe Kravitz’s tic laden paranoic performance.

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The Righteous Gemstones

[t-the-east]

The Righteous Gemstones

My buddy recommended this to me. Wayyyy to many man parts for my taste. At least once per episode, be ready to see some penis. The whole show is pretty cringey with a few funny parts. We stopped watching a few episodes into season 2.

White Lotus was fantastic though.

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My buddy recommended this to me. Wayyyy to many man parts for my taste. At least once per episode, be ready to see some penis. The whole show is pretty cringey with a few funny parts. We stopped watching a few episodes into ugh.

Wow. There's a couple dicks in like three or four episodes. If that's what hit you the most, you might need to talk to a therapist about that.

Yeah, there's some dicks because it's a running gag about how evangelical culture is willfully blind to their gay children. Kelvin is so deeply repressed that he doesn't even understand that he is totally gay and, basically, his family will put up with all kinds of his nonsense if it means they never have to have THAT conversation about Kelvin. The dicks are a floppin' and Kelvin's family has to bend over backwards not to see it.

And Danny McBride thinks dicks are one of the most ridiculous looking things in the natural world.

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Wow. There's a couple dicks in like three or four episodes. If that's what hit you the most, you might need to talk to a therapist about that.

Yeah, there's some dicks because it's a running gag about how evangelical culture is willfully blind to their gay children. Kelvin is so deeply repressed that he doesn't even understand that he is totally gay and, basically, his family will put up with all kinds of his nonsense if it means they never have to have THAT conversation about Kelvin.

That’s funny about the therapy. Pretty sure it’s every episode, but that’s not why my wife and I stopped watching. It was just a boring show, kinda went nowhere and kept dragging on. I’m not offended by the overuse of old wrinkly flaccid dick, If that’s your jam-more power to you. And the whole Kelvin part is painfully obvious. His over the top man siren club or whatever it was called definitely made that point clear. But, You know what they say about opinions….

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Yo, Peacemaker is cringe comedy, slapstick/grossout gags, and nonstop insult jokes mixed with the occasional dollop of pathos. That pretty much describes The Righteous Gemstones approach to comedy as well.

Don't worry about the dicks, it's got 85% score on RT. Only 15% of viewers got hung up on the whole "dicks are ridickulous" thing.

[t-the-east]

We’ll move on… another fantastic HBO Max show is Succession.

And if you’re a football fan, the Hard Knocks show is great too

[Brownski]

How new to HBO are you? I mean, if you haven’t watched The Wire and The Sopranos yet… well, let’s just say you’re in for a treat. Not to mention Curb your Enthusiasm. And, as stated already, Succession and The White Lotus are pretty good too.
edit: I second the peacemaker and if you like that kind of show, Doom Patrol is worth watching too.

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Avenue5 is pretty good if you like that sort of social satire and absurdist vibe. Hugh Laurie fans will appreciate it.

Hacks and Somebody, Somewhere are good if you want dramedy.

Station Eleven is a very interesting take on the post-apocalypse. What if 99% of humans died and it was mostly the nerdy kids from theater class who survived.

Speaking of apocalypses, The Last of Us comes out in a month. That's the big one I'd keep a subscription for.

[AK47bp]

Raised by Wolves.

Season 1 is great, season 2 is a little less great.



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Raised by Wolves.

Season 1 is great, season 2 is a little less great.



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Sorry to tell you this but HBO pulled a netflix on Raised by Wolves. Cancelled without a conclusion. Since we will never get the answers to the show's many intriguing mysteries, do not watch.

[AK47bp]

Sorry to tell you this but HBO pulled a netflix on Raised by Wolves. Cancelled without a conclusion. Since we will never get the answers to the show's many intriguing mysteries, do not watch.

Well that sucks.

So many cool story lines they could of really done a lot with. What a waste.


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NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND
This 1984 post-apocalyptic anime owes a few debts to the likes of Fantastic Planet, Heavy Metal, Wizards, and Dune, yet it’s still a unique vision of wonderfully realized animation.
Pretty timely still, given climate change and ongoing wars, too.
But really it’s the richly colored images and trippy landscapes that wil hold your attention.

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HBO Max Recommendations

If you’re into cheesy Christmas movies the Christmas Story sequel is pretty good. I also liked the one from last year: 8-bit Christmas. Both are sort of nostalgia fests but that’s not so bad for a Christmas movie IMO. Both are better than anything the Hallmark Channel is putting out.

A few new-run movies are on there too like Amsterdam, and don’t worry darling.

I’m not caught up on it yet, but people are going nuts for White lotus.