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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

several xps Yeah, isn't HBOmax literally a portmanteau of HBO and Cinemax?

Now, see, I don't look at Hulu every day, or necessarily even every week, but I *did* look at it yesterday. I wonder if I looked at it a week from today if "Prey" would have a presence. Hmm, I just looked back and now the big "Prey" banner is gone and the homescreen banner is "CMA Fest." Refreshed a couple of times again and now it's "The Orville." Maybe it's rotating? I'll have to see what pops up on our TV vs. browser.

On Disney+ in the UK, Prey has been one of their main banners at the top of the page for the last week with a "Coming to Disney+ on 5 August" prominently displayed. (Similar for the Lightyear movie too)

https://mobile.twitter.com/isitstillonhbo

Can 100% recommend Prey. It's really well done. (I watched the version with all the dialogue in Comanche — except for some scenes which were in untranslated French.)

I’m impressed they could find a way to do something original with the Predator concept… will check it out.

Yes Prey rules hard. Midthunder is dope AF, and also there is DOGGY.

Reservation Dogs bitches. So good.

Watching Arcane on Netflix. The character design is pretty great! Guess I just haven't seen a CGI based show in a few years, and it's clear that we're now firmly in a 'canny valley' phase of cgi: everyone is beautiful, but also looks like a real person. The stocky kid with googles in the group in the opening scenes is a good example, in that he is almost certainly based on someone real, and has the sort of subtle charisma that didn't used to appear on TV (because casting directors passed over people like that in the old days, i guess?) The clothes also are very nice in Arcane, except when they're toosteampunky. Two episodes in, i'm hoping for maybe a couple more unambigiously transfemme characters to appear.. as far as representation issues go.

I enjoyed watching Prey, but the Predator was just kind of an irritating guy.

I'm going to re-recommend The Resort on Peacock here, turning out to be way more interesting than the trailers would lead you to believe. Ben Sinclair (the guy from High Maintenance) directed a lot of it and also plays a significant role.

I want to watch the Resort but I'm waiting until all the episodes are out. Week to week streaming is bullshit.

Week to week streaming is awesome. It's great to have something regular to look forward to. Appointment TV, but also on my own schedule!

yeah i like it too, i only binge like the reaaaaallly good stuff that hooks me in hard

I watch one episode of two shows/night, rotating through four shows (the most recent lineup was Orville/Hanna & Evil/The Old Man) never really binging but I like series/seasons that are done so I can maintain the schedule. It's the only orderly part of my life somehow.

The Old Man tricked me because I thought it was done when I started.

The way The Orville run times were going I'm surprised you also had time to watch Hanna

I fast forwarded through the singer-songwriter interludes, that saved ten minutes from half this season.

Lol