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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

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

I tried watching a new South Korean action movie, Carter, on Netflix, but I only lasted a half hour (there were two hours to go). I respected the effort — it was meant to look like it was all done in one shot — but I haaaaated the execution. The whole thing looks like a game, or like it was shot with drones and head-mounted GoPro cameras, and the transition points where they blurred the edits between shots were almost nauseating. In fact, the constantly moving camera in general wasn’t exciting; it was annoying as fuck. 100% Not My Thing.

lol yeah I couldn’t make it through the whole thing either, it gave me a headache. The plot was structured like an RPG and it felt a bit like watching a gaming stream at 15x speed. But it definitely did a couple of cool things I’d never seen anywhere else before, and can see how it might inspire future action filmmaking.

A snippet for those who might be curious:

You know the faux one-take action sequences in THE VILLAINESS? That director made a 139-minute film that is just one fake long take-action scene called CARTER that's on Netflix now: an absurd fever dream of violence and impossible camera work that you'll hate or be fascinated by. pic.twitter.com/qoB2KzqFPw

— Justin Decloux (@DeclouxJ) August 5, 2022

I stuck with Carter and think you were wiser bailing early. Two hours, 14 minutes, and the movie still ends with everyone reunited on a train going over a bridge to an island, with the last shot being the bridge blowing up just ahead of the train. Given earlier invulnerability, wasn't concerned for the people, but not a fan of the "it ain't over" ending. Carter was like the anti-Drive My Car, all action vs all dialogue.

Kind of eye-rolling save for the gonzo ending, but maybe stands as an interesting counterpoint to Prey, which has a oner that I didn't even notice as such aside from it being awesome. Even rewatching it again and even with that in mind, I kept forgetting that it was a oner given how smooth it was.

wanna see Prey in the cinema!!

"Prey" was OK, but we were super bummed to learn that the Comanche version is *dubbed*. Watching with mismatched lips *and* subtitles was just too distracting for us so we watched the English version, even though we really wished we could be watching it in Comanche. For some reason I though they just did two versions of it.

Agree that the dog is awesome and the predator is just kind of a dick. Also, so many people missing their legs just sort of ambling about when they really should be, you know, dead.

It had an oddly low-stakes vibe around its (many) brutal killings... like, most characters didn't seem particularly hung up about whether they lived or died.

Original Predator had charisma, this one was indeed an arsehole. A proper Comanche version without even subs would gave been cool. The French guys didn’t need subtitles.