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Hopefully surprising no one, there were reportedly lots of layoffs at the Coda Collection today.

Oh man I just realized what Prey is and I am stooooked for it, Friday can't come soon enough.

I'm cautious but I'm hearing really good things so far about Prey!

Oh, that’s cool, I hadn’t heard of that movie…

Can’t believe Dan Trachtenberg hasn’t directed a film since 10 Cloverfield Lane (which I thought was awesome)!

Btw – we’ve moved onto this HBO Max* series The Gilded Age, which is like a Neanderthal version of Downton Abbey… terrible writing, acting, directing; it’s ridiculous and fun to watch / laugh at.

(*Wikipedia says this trash is actually on regular HBO, believe it or not; so I guess not fit for this thread.)

the Resort on Peacock is thoroughly enjoyable so far.

xp idk, sounds like Neando could do a better job than that!

Gilded Age is definitely dull but I didn’t find it straight-up bad - ymmv

Baranksi & Coons were worth it for me

Yeah, I didn't think it was that bad besides very obviously trying to do nothing more than transplant Downton Abbey to NYC a few decades earlier. Some of the CGI is terrible and they uh play fast and loose with geography and architecture of the era, but I enjoyed it as a mindless fun,

i was mostly annoyed by how impossibly clean the streets & sidewalks are lol

HBO Max is expected to layoff around 70% of their development staff.

“Sounds like they’re not doing HBO Max scripted shows anymore with HBO taking over, so less scripted shows overall,” says one company insider.

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fully improvised Game of Thrones spin-offs plz

It took me awhile to realize that "Max Original" did not mean it was a show from Cinemax

mindless fun

Yes, this is key - it's somehow soothing to zone out to

These behemoths, they're going to put all their money into Game of Thrones, or Lord of the Rings, or other CGI shit with dragons, and it will turn out people are just done with that shit and have moved on, and they'll be like, oh shit, what other cheaper IP shit do we have lying around, like, Knight Rider, or Remington Steele or something? Quick, greenlight that shit! And then it will fail, too, and they'll be at a total loss. "We regret to inform you that HBO Max (et al.) is laying off everyone, because we can not think of anything original to do, let alone do for a reasonable price that does not involve relocating the production to Europe or New Zealand or spending millions and millions on server space to process all the CG." And they'll just end up stationing cameras around Los Angeles and calling it the world's biggest, most ambitious unscripted reality show.

Gilded Age was terrible and dull, which is fine, but it also made Christine Baranski boring, which is unforgivable

Agree Undone is fantastic, thought it was the best streaming-only thing since the first seasons of American Vandal and Russian Doll, except with a better second season than either

XP NBC actually did a Knight Rider reboot awhile back. KITT was a Mustang. It didn't last long.

but it also made Christine Baranski boring

I don't think I watched the same episodes as you.

American Vandal

Don't these guys have a new show?

Oh shit, it already came and went! Thanks, Paramount+, for your deep promotional budget.

If HBO Max gets folded into Discovery+ or whatever, I might unsubscribe. Unless I still get access to the TCM hub, which has some good stuff. I don't watch any Discovery shows and don't want to.

In the meantime, the first episode of Season 2 of Industry was pretty good; the lead character is maybe even more of a damage case and destructive asshole than in Season 1, but more tolerable somehow?

Also, 2 new episodes of Reservation Dogs on Hulu! Gonna watch at least one of those tonight.

Yeah I'm champin at the bit but my boys are away at camp. Gotta wait for them, they love it

we watched 1st new episode last night & it is predictably excellent

i so desperately want to call everyone “shitass”

So there's at least some indication that streaming interfaces/home pages are a mess on purpose, right? I'm reminded of the Prey movie here, and see another (positive) review this morning, so I think, OK, is it out now? I go to Hulu on my computer and see nothing about Prey on the homepage, and scrolling around see links to Predator and Predator 2 here and there but no Prey. Search for Prey and find a page with its trailer, but even that page says nothing about a release date. Watch the trailer again, and yeah, there's the release date (Aug. 5) at the end of the trailer, but you'd think a big movie about to be released on Hulu tomorrow would have a higher profile. This isn't the first time (or place) I've seen stuff like this happen. Apple, Disney ... sometimes even high profile/in-house stuff seems to be hidden or buried. I get that maybe they want as many eyeballs on as many pages/products as possible, but at the same time, there are so many options that the longer they make you look, the more they risk losing your interest. Though I suspect they must have data that shows this is not the case.

Maybe they don't feature it on their service until it's actually launched?

It's always weird to me that these streaming services don't do better with hyping upcoming shows. Maybe I just haven't looked in the right places, like it's so weird to me that I have to go to YouTube to watch the Andor of She-Hulk trailer. You'd think Disney+ would want to host the trailers to hype their own content up.

Yeah, I guarantee tomorrow morning Prey will be the top banner item when you go to Hulu.

Same thing happened when that movie Spiderhead was coming up on Netflix. I read a review, was mildly intrigued, and had to go searching and searching to figure out that it wouldn't be available for another week. (I still haven't watched it.)

self-xp "Andor of She-Hulk" would be a pretty great show idea lol

I get weekly emails from the streaming services I pay for (as opposed to the ones my wife pays for), promoting what’s new. Those would be HBO Max and Paramount+. Seems kind of old school, but I guess it must work for them. (I’m sure if I followed them on social, I would see new stuff there as well)

I wouldn't be surprised if "Prey" *was* the first thing I saw on the site tomorrow but I also wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't (which is the sort of thing that has happened before on these sites). I just don't see why they wouldn't have a big banner of "Prey" up today that says "Coming Tomorrow, Aug. 5!" or whatever. With several streaming services, there's just no way I'm looking at each of them every day, let alone keeping track of all the dozens of things that are coming and going all the time. Like that "Players" gamer mockumentary, I knew it existed but had no idea it already aired (let alone on a service I don't have).

Long, somewhat in-depth update: HBO Max could start to suck really hard really soon.

I’ll be pissed if they cancel Sex Lives of College Girls.

I haven't watched that one because I think opening it will get me on some kind of list

I really hope Hacks and Our Flag Means Death survive, loved both of those and thought they both just had recently confirmed another season.

Lots of stuff on HBO Max I really love. The Rehearsal, Tokyo Vice, Peacemaker, good documentaries, South Side, John Oliver ... other people enjoy Barry, Euphoria, Succession. I assume lots of the bigger ones will stick around. I also assume a lot of shitty reality shows will show up.

This morning, HBO Max announced Discovery darlings Chip and Joanna Gaines would be bringing select content from their Magnolia Network to the streaming service.

Hell yeah, hit me with that shiplap you Southern Baptist Waco freaks.

xp - Well I was specifically mentioning Hacks and Our Flag Means Death because they are HBO Max originals. Barry, Euphoria, Succession and John Oliver are all HBO proper and will be just fine. That article linked above hints that the Max specific properties might be in danger.

The differentiation between HBO and HBO Max has always been incoherent to me - HBO Max is just where I go to see HBO stuff, like HBO Go before it. Why wouldn't you have just stuck with HBO Go or... "HBO (the streaming service)"

tbh the "Max" always seemed weird to me, esp growing up when Max represented Cinemax, one of HBO's biggest competitors for premium cable back in the day.

Everything is a "max" or a "+" or a ... a lot of "+" really.

Like, plus *what*?

yeah I had AMC+ for a month and I couldn't even watch Better Call Saul

IMDb.com has prominent banner ads right now, informing me that the new Beavis & Butt-head series is Now Streaming (they're targeting the right guy!)

I don’t think HBO and Cinemax were competitors. HBO owned Cinemax.

wow, I genuinely had no idea about that history.

Ditching all the softcore porn in the move to HBOMax was a terrible decision.

Show(me-mo-)time has all theirs carefully curated in its own section.

The new Beavis & Butt-heads aren’t that good. Also, instead of making fun of music videos, they watch YouTube/TikTok clips… which feels like a missed opportunity (there are plenty of bad new music videos out there).

Oh that’s depressing

I wouldn't be surprised if "Prey" *was* the first thing I saw on the site tomorrow

Turned on Hulu (to get back into Only Murders), and the entire homescreen was promoting Prey