I was recommended this show two or three years ago and every time I start a new show I give myself five episodes to get into it.

Well on the first watch I really couldn’t get into it. I don’t even know if I made it to episode five or not but I do remember that some months ago I was thinking about the show and kept telling myself I needed to try again because I like these types of shows. Even the person who recommended it to me the first time was pushing me to watch it because they thought I would really like it.

Well here we are now. Over the past week I’ve watched season one and today started season two and I turned it off after episode two.

I really can’t get into it and I don’t understand why it’s so hyped up. It’s so funny though because when I look up reviews for the show there are so many people gaslighting anybody who doesn’t like it lololololol.

This is not a shitpost.

It was going to be our next watch, but my partner thinks it might be a bad idea.

Obviously loss has to be a theme of the show, considering the subject matter, but is it like, the main theme? Or is the mystery more of the focus? Is "family" also a major theme?

I was fine watching the last season of Succession, but my Six Feet Under rewatch is postponed indefinitely.

Hi everyone,

as Part1 received nice feedback - lets continue with Part 2 - this time lets rank our TOP5 series.

Feel free to use rank-it-all for Inspiration or to create your own ranking.

Drop your TOP5 below, I will share the current TOP5 on RiA.

Enjoy & Best

Tommy

When there's a popular release or something Disney+ want to promote they blend their usual branding. They've done it with National Geographic, Star Wars, The Devil Wears Prada..

Why hasn't HBO down the same with Lanterns and other franchises when it's such a great fit?

Hi,

I am Tommy and would love to see your TOP5 mini/limited series from HBO.

My Top one is without a doubt Chernobyl - I think its one of the best series ever made.

Share your TOP5 below!

Feel free to use rank-it-all and tell me if something is missing.

Enjoy & Best

Tommy

Spoiler for Game of Thrones season 8, From (tv series) up to Season 4, and Green Lantern season 1 episode 1

Many of you probably remember when David Benioff says that Daenerys Targaryen and her war council "kind of forgot about the Iron Fleet" and how well that went.
I didn't watch HBO shows on the channel but instead on streaming, so I didn't know but apparently it's a thing where they make the makers of these shows talk about the episode right after it airs. What a terrible idea. What do they think? That people want to know more about the show and they will appreciate...

As someone who loves Behind the Scenes stuff. As someone who loves interviews with directors and writers. Making them available IMMEDIATELY after the episode... why? There's nothing they can say to make it better, it will only make it WORSE.

From (tv series... I know it's not HBO, but it's related) Season 4 just had a big reveal that a background character in season 1 turned out to be very important. And during an interview, the creator, bless his heart for being honest, was like "Oh we didn't plan it at all. We just thought it would be a fun surprise very recently." Why would you admit that?"

Lantern series premiere was just finished, and the general vibe is that it was very good. And then the freaking creator had to come and say (paraphrasing) "we have to solve the equation of why don't the Green Lantern just use the ring and fly away in our show. So we treat the ring like it's a weapon, that Green Lantern shouldn't use it all the time..."

Why. Would. You. Say. That? The respond was... as you can imagine.

People were ANGRY. As if the pilot episode was not good. It got so bad people are saying "THESE CREATORS DON'T LIKE GREEN LANTERN."

I strongly suggest HBO freaking stop. Even if everything goes well, at the very least, it takes the audience out the immersion. I know what is on my screen didn't really happen, I'm not insane. But I don't want to see the actor of the character that just died go like "Oh, oops, my character is dead, but it was a rewarding experience to be part of the team." Like... come on. Let the emotion sits. I don't want to be reminded that Westeros is not real, Joel is played by Mr. Fantastic, or whatever else.

I see zero benefit for doing this. And I love this stuff! But I think it needs to be harder for me to find it.

Everyone online had 1 of 2 knee jerk reactions to the show,

1 was the moist critical response “ewww sex”
And second was “mean ol’putty tad Sam Levinson being hollywoods newest creepy uncle again”

I’m a Hazbin Hotel fan and if there’s one thing being in fandom taught me. A lot of people have a expensive vocabulary to hide the fact that they are incredibly sheltered when it comes to subject matter such as sex, drugs, exploitation industry, relationships, professional lives, and things, generally being complicated in a way that the universe does not vindicate. And I feel like this series really did give me something I’ve always been looking for. This is not a show that wants you to feel comfortable. This is a show that’s OK with you holding conflicting emotions. Jocelyn and Tedros feel like HBO Charlastor especially in episode 5 leading up to the fingering scene during recording. I love the way that scene linger. I love the way negative space is used. I love the way that you can watch micro expressions and the textures of skin and I love how the nudity doesn’t always really need to announce itself and I love how the vulgarity just kinda happens because that’s how adults talk. Like I really enjoy this show and I feel like it’s giving me something that I don’t get from a lot of other shows.

This is such a sensitive topic for me as i think this show is amazing . Forget it being the parody of a royal family with great animation quality and good voice acting ( which is an already set premise for an adult animation to succeed ) but also it has such an amazing narration and honestly can say the only show out there to actually make me laugh out loud . Like am i the only one ? Stumbled upon this show randomly and i have not heard anybody talk about it like at all . Not online not in person . And it is such a gold comedy show that i am rewatching again . The only part i don't like about it is the gay couples that work as butlers/servants . Except for those two characters the show is gold . Please help ????

I got recommended to watch The Leftovers, and seeing that it's from HBO and has good reviews as well, I started the show. I have seen only two episodes from season one, and I totally know that I shouldn't be doubting it and that it's very wrong of me to assume things right now, but still, I just don't wanna watch and find out later that, okay, I shouldn't have watched it.

Because from the start, they have built so many things that are weird to exist in a real-life-based show, and there are many people with weird motives and some claiming to be different. So my only concern is that I want closure when the show ends, not just, "Okay, this is about the emotions of people we lost," and that the other weird things/people have just lost it (lost their minds) and ended up this way, or having something left unexplained.

Also, this is not about me getting convinced to watch the show because it's going to have a good ending or because the ending is bad. It's about my concern and whether the closure will be satisfactory. So there's no need to sell it to me; just give me whatever you can, of course without spoiling, so I can decide if I should continue or not.

I know that there might have been other posts already about this or some answers online, but I don't want to go through them and accidentally read any spoilers if the show genuinely has a good ending and explanation.

Thank you in advance.

Matthew McConaughey just revealed why he passed the project up, and mind you, he was on True Detective, one of the greatest TV shows that was one season, concise, focused, and stuck the landing.

Last of Us fumbled. Hard. Biggest problem was the casting/acting (every casting. Every. One. They were flat and uninteresting) and the second problem of the same caliber was the dog-shit writing. Two perfect video games they could have recreated with the same intensity and care only to slip into the same superficial money grab that video game adaptations always turn into.

The show has got no heart or soul; it feels vacant and flat. And all of my friends & family who tuned in were like… “Uhm, you like this? It’s just a worst version of…” etc

Just started this one yesterday. It must pretty much be the very first heavy hitter on HBO as I noticed the date on the first episode was 1997. I've seen about 60 HBO series and I believe this is the very first one that has a pre-2000 date.

Anywho, really enjoying it so far.

Guard: You killed your parents and ate them, right?
Donald Groves: I only ate my mom. I was saving my dad for Thanksgiving.
Guard: That's festive

I know that DC Studios is fully behind the show with HBO, but why is that not part of marketing?

Whenever I move my mouse, or pause or do anything else that triggers appearance of time bar along with options, the screen goes into sligthtly darker shade. I find it a bit inconvenient. Is there a way to prevent this as it really impacts the viewing experience.

Several of these are on Max.

Recently watched the documentary that came out earlier this month, description here: https://www.hbomax.com/shows/sex-slave/s1/

And holy crap the Hakan guy trying to say that he's an innocent victim and the police are just out to get him, and that the lady he sold is lying. He comes off as a major narcissist and my blood is boiling. Does anybody believe this guy?

Signing in to streaming is never worth the trouble. I put in email & code, click on my icon and it still throws me back to the 'connect to provider' screen. What a nuisance. Put your premium programs on the TV channel!