Big Little Lies and Chernobyl was great.
There's also His Dark Materials coming, which I'm excited about.
There's also His Dark Materials coming, which I'm excited about.
-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
-
We have made minor adjustments to how the search bar works on ResetEra. You can read about the changes here.
Is HBO still worth it?
- Thread starter Thewonandonly
- Start date
This is what I do with Showtime, Starz, and Cinemax. I subscribe once or twice a year for a month and catch up on the shows I want to watch. About ready to re-up to Cinemax to watch Warrior. That said HBO had a 10 year run where you couldn't do that, because every show they had was that good. Not so anymore.
IMO, they still have by far the best original programming. Even their selection of movies is pretty decent, I do find even older movies on there to watch.
If I had to chose between any of the streaming services I have, I would keep HBO and cancel the rest. I still have tons of shows to watch and a lot of them got great reviews. Chernobyl is the best thing I've seen all year on tv.
No. GoT, Veep and Barry were great and totally worth it but when I look at the new lineup and stuff coming out - Euphoria, Years and Years, Sharp Objects, etc none of it is interesting to me personally.
I might resub for a time when the final season of Silicon Valley airs and catch up on stuff I missed but HBO definitely feels like a CBS All Access thing now, where I can sub for a month or two every year and get everything thats good in a short burst. Netflix I keep on because every month they still have stuff I find new and interesting but they aren't very far from the sub-for-3-unsub-for-6 category.
I might resub for a time when the final season of Silicon Valley airs and catch up on stuff I missed but HBO definitely feels like a CBS All Access thing now, where I can sub for a month or two every year and get everything thats good in a short burst. Netflix I keep on because every month they still have stuff I find new and interesting but they aren't very far from the sub-for-3-unsub-for-6 category.
I have a hard time arguing it's worth 15 bucks a month, continually. Like most services, you can just pick it up every few months and binge, with the added benefit that the stuff you're really subscribing for is never leaving the service. There's no financial incentive to subscribe for longer that I know of. If you have a cable/satellite package, you'll even get deals offered to you when you don't have it active. If I weren't getting it "free" because of AT&T I would have dropped it by now, again.
Agreed. It's a steep price, but there are good shows on there. Silicon Valley, Barry, Curb, Chernobyl - all fantastic.
Holy shit I've never heard of it but I just watched the trailer and it looks incredible.
HBO has done a fairly good job of sprinkling in enough good content through the year, where we have a sub about 8-9 months of the year.
Plus we like having one premium channel for some of those premium movies.
Plus we like having one premium channel for some of those premium movies.
There's a lot of good stuff on there. I hope to see them do more quality drama mini series like Chernobyl, but Barry is a great show, and there's plenty more that I either want to get into or plan to. I know it's available on other services, but I've never seen Deadwood all the way for example. And they seem to have some things in the pipeline I'd be interested in, like that new comedy series with John Goodman because I'll watch literally anything with John Goodman in it.
Oddly enough Game of Thrones is not anywhere on my radar And really never has been, though I flip-flopped on whether not I should watch it over the years.
They also have good documentaries
Oddly enough Game of Thrones is not anywhere on my radar And really never has been, though I flip-flopped on whether not I should watch it over the years.
They also have good documentaries
HBO will be the king when it finally moves onto WarnerMedia. They know it will be the flagship of their streaming content.
Sure. I need my BLL rich white woman drama plus I'm catching up on Veep and eventually Barry. Succession S2 in August (watch this show folks), than His Dark Materials/Watchmen later this year.
Occasionally they put up a movie I want to watch and I feel my sub fee is justified.
Occasionally they put up a movie I want to watch and I feel my sub fee is justified.
Amazon Prime has the old HBO shows so I only sub to real HBO when the next season of Barry is out.
Yes, but only because it comes for free with my wireless from now on until I change my wireless plan.
I didn't pay for it before and am unlikely to pay for it otherwise
I didn't pay for it before and am unlikely to pay for it otherwise
I work for WarnerMedia on the team that's currently building this thing. And based on what I've seen in terms of content that's going to be available on it, it's got the potential to immediately be a big player.
In recent memory, Barry, Game of Thrones, Westworld, True Detective, and Sharp Objects has made my HBO Go subscription worthwhile.
I still need to catch up on Chernobyl, and I'm looking forward to His Dark Materials next, so I'm still holding on to HBO for the foreseeable future
I still need to catch up on Chernobyl, and I'm looking forward to His Dark Materials next, so I'm still holding on to HBO for the foreseeable future
They have a great upcoming slate. GoT Prequel, Lovecraft Country, His Dark Materials, Contraband (Fka Demimonde, the new Bad Robot series), Watchmen, The Third Day, The Gilded Age, The Time Traveler's Wife, The New Pope (Young Pope Sequel series), The Righteous Gemstones, More Curb Your Enthusiasm, More Barry, and others.
I think they're in for a few really strong years.
I think they're in for a few really strong years.
Can you fix the abysmal black crush in the current HBO streaming app? That's my biggest request.
The amazon feed of HBO is better, but the HBO NOW and GO is just embarrassingly bad.
Damn how did I not even realize that the Warner app would have HBO. So you're telling me DC Universe and HBO will eventually be under the same umbrella? Wild.
HBO is definitely my favorite service alongside Netflix. Euphoria is great. As is Chernobyl. Plus they have the best catalog of series I think of any service
How has Danny McBride been mentioned several times but not Vice Principals. That show's incredible, and quite short and self-contained too.
Every time you wanna leave they put out a new amazing show. I was planning to cancel for a bit after GOT but then decided to catch up/finish Crashing.. then watched Big Little Lies s1 and was like shit this is so good so now we gotta wait til S2 is over. And still need to watch Chernobyl. And there's that weird looking show starting next week (maybe this week?) on Mondays that looked great.. and then Watchmen will be on soon. They don't put out a lot of content but most of what they do is must see.
It's tough to give up. I wish the fuckers would drop the price to say $12 though..
It's tough to give up. I wish the fuckers would drop the price to say $12 though..
I would keep it for John Oliver, Real Sports, and their Documentaries.
Fortunately I enjoy the shit out of so many of their other shows, as does my wife.
Currently watching Big Little Lies, Euphoria and Los Espookys.
Fortunately I enjoy the shit out of so many of their other shows, as does my wife.
Currently watching Big Little Lies, Euphoria and Los Espookys.
GoT was a fuckin wet fart, but the Deadwood movie, Chernobyl, and Barry are all incredible. I'm cancelling for now but I'm sure there will be something to watch later this year.
HBO has always had great original content. Also some of the best shows on TV. I keep mine year around, no question.
Let me just CMA here and say this is all my opinion and speculation, and I'm not disclosing anything that hasn't already been publicly announced.
That's my biggest personal frustration with the product ATM. Everyone is very aware of the improvements that need to be made to video quality.
I think if you look at the properties WM owns (Warner Bros., Turner, HBO, Cinemax, DC, FilmStruck, etc.,) it should give you a solid idea of the lineup we'll have. I can't wait to see what the final catalog looks like.
I don't believe that's been finalized yet.
That's my biggest personal frustration with the product ATM. Everyone is very aware of the improvements that need to be made to video quality.
I think if you look at the properties WM owns (Warner Bros., Turner, HBO, Cinemax, DC, FilmStruck, etc.,) it should give you a solid idea of the lineup we'll have. I can't wait to see what the final catalog looks like.
I don't believe that's been finalized yet.
Thank God I have my parents subscription to leech off of otherwise I would miss out on so much.