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The Truth Behind Max’s Cancellation Spree (www.vulture.com)

submitted 9 months ago by Skavau@kbin.social to c/television@kbin.social

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“You didn’t get many things that were broadening out from HBO. You got things that were adjacent to HBO.”

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[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Adjacent is generous.

HBO's whole thing is high quality content. They shoved a bunch of trashy faked reality nonsense down my throat.

[–] mPony@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

yeah but the trashy faked reality nonsense isn't what they've been cancelling. They killed 2 of my favourite shows, the jerks.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

It's the stuff the OP is calling "HBO-adjacent" that's most of your subscription now.

I literally cancelled it when they added all that nonsense before noticing them deleting anything I cared about in large part because merely existing massively lowered my value of the subscription. (The rest because they made me manually install a new app that looked identical but didn't work.)

[–] hightrix@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I get Max for free through ATT and I’d still like to cancel it. Every time I open the app and search for something to watch, I close it a few min later and go back to Hulu or peacock.

[–] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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[–] WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

The link has an extra 't' at the end. Here's the right link

https://www.vulture.com/2024/02/why-hbo-max-is-canceling-so-many-shows.html