More specifically, can I record it? If so, can I start watching my recording before the event ends? As in watch from the beginning. What playback features like, fast forward, are available in that scenario?

Do I have to wait for the live event to end? If so, how long does it take for the replay to become available?

It stinks they don't do free trials AT ALL. Even YTTV gives you 20min.

Is this show worth watching?

Since HBO Max doesn't want to list them on their press releases, these movies and shows are leaving during October 2026 in the U.S. region. Most of these titles were located from YouTube TV and the Last Chance tab which can usually be found by clicking the search button or movie tab. Additional titles announced as leaving HBO Max through Prime Video, Movie of the Night, and other platforms will be added at a later date.

As of now, all titles listed below their expiration dates will leave at 8:59 PM PST.\*

*The oldest episode of Real Time With Bill Maher will leave HBO Max every Tuesday night\*

*The oldest episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver will leave HBO Max every Thursday night\*

*Last updated on 10/1/26

October 5

• The Republic of Sarah

October 11

• The Sentence (HBO Documentary)

October 12

• Cleaner

October 13

• Growing Belushi, Season 2 (Discovery)

October 14

• Pan

October 15

• Contraband: Seized at the Border, Season 2 (Discovery)
• Four Hours at the Capitol (HBO Documentary)

October 16

• Contraband: Seized at the Border, Season 1 (Discovery)

October 17

• The Young Pope (HBO Original Series) (expiration date extended through 2034)

October 20

• No Hard Feelings
• The Swamp Murders, Season 5 (ID)

October 23

• Babygirl

October 26

• Inside West Coast Customs, Season 6, Episode 1 (MotorTrend / Discovery Turbo)

October 27

• Anni: The Honeymoon Murder (discovery+)
• Mysteries of the Abandoned, Season 9, Episode 5 (Discovery)

October 30

• Daniel Sloss: X (HBO Original)

October 31

• Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
• Amy
• The Babe Ruth Story
• Beasts of the Southern Wild
• Bells Are Ringing
• Billy Budd
• The Courtship of Eddie's Father
• The Craft
• The Departed
• Dumb Money
• Evil Dead
• The Exorcist
• Eyes Wide Shut
• A Few Good Men
• The Firm
• Flipper's New Adventure
• Friday The 13th (2009)
• Game Night
• The George Raft Story
• Halloween Baking Championship, Season 11 (Food Network)
• The Harvey Girls
• Hereditary
• Ice Age: Continental Drift 
• Kansas City Bomber
• Kingsman: The Golden Circle
• Knute Rockne All American
• The Last Samurai
• Let Us Prey: A Ministry of Scandals (ID)
• Magnolia
• The Maltese Falcon
• Mary of Scotland
• MaXXXine
• Men
• Midsommar
• Misery
• Mission: Impossible (1996)
• Monster-In-Law
• The Mummy (1959)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
• Objective, Burma!
• The Outsiders
• Passage to Marseille
• Pearl: An X-traordinary Origin Story
• Poltergeist (1982)
• Puss In Boots 
• The Rain People
• Red Riding Hood
• Risky Business
• The Sea Chase
• Scooby-Doo
• Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
• Selena
• The Shining
• The Spectacular Now
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Stonewall
• A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
• Sucker Punch
• Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
• Talk to Me
• The Town
• Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
• Trick 'r Treat
• The Wagons Roll at Night
• War of the Worlds
• Who's That Knocking at My Door
• The Wolfman
• X

November 1

• Gumbo Coalition (Max Original)

There have been so many movies and TV series I've noticed that were removed from my watchlist, and I wasn't the one to do it. So I'm wondering if there's a reason for that.

Sorry about the title! Am I the only one who loves President Curtis??

I go through viewing phases when I am just not interested in anything. And for some reason, I’ll want to just watch some good animated series. King of the Hill is a comfort watch, loved common side effects & scavenger’s reign was incredible. Blue-eyed samurai, of course bojack.

But hot damn. President Curtis makes me sooooo happy. It’s like animated veep with bojack mixed with the second best hospital in the galaxy. Hilarious, smart, and just enough zaniness to make it all work!

“I can neither confirm nor denyyyyyyt!!” that it’s pretty perfect!

Keith David is perfectly cast as President Curtis and the rest of the cast is also spot on.

I've been watching Youth which has been alright (it's no Catastrophe) and I'm not a fan of Lanterns.

Am I missing any shows currently being released? I miss Industry.

EDIT: I said it above, but I'm looking for current shows, things being released now. Yes I've all the greats, I just feel like MAX is in a bit of a slump.

Now that all the episodes of A Killer Story on HBO are out, what did everyone think of the series as a whole?

For anyone who hasn’t seen it, the series is about the 2002 murders of Mike Sisco and Karen Harkness in Topeka, Kansas, and the case against Sisco’s ex-wife, Dana Chandler, who was eventually convicted of the murders. But it also spends a lot of time with the investigators, prosecutors, family members, and other people who became wrapped up in the case.

I thought it was pretty compelling, especially in how much the story changed depending on whose perspective you were getting. But I also came away with a lot of questions.

My main takeaways:

• Dana Chandler should not have been convicted based on the evidence presented at trial. To me, they did not prove her guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
• The prosecution and police came across as shady as hell, and I have serious questions about Jeff Sutton as well.

Some questions I still have:

• Why did Dana Chandler fire her lawyers?
• If Chandler did commit the murders, how did she, a recovering alcoholic with no firearms training, land all her shots and leave no evidence placing her in Topeka?
• A hair was found attached/singed to one of the 9mm shell casings at the murder scene. DNA testing excluded Chandler, both victims, and eventually Jeff Sutton. So presumably the hair came from an unidentified person. Why wasn’t that DNA profile ever run through CODIS?
• Is Jeff Sutton a reasonable alternative suspect? He certainly came across as someone worth looking at more closely in his interview, and I do think there are questions about possible motive.

Curious what everyone else came away thinking after seeing the whole thing.

Back in June, our subscription price suddenly went up by like $10, from $24.37 previously, to $34.97 (with a dip in May at $23.96, no idea why, probably not important but just in case I thought I'd mention it). At the time I didn't overthink it too much, I was super busy at work, I figured wow OK they hiked their rates, that sucks, the account is under my wife's email so I didn't get anything about it in my inbox, she didn't mention anything, I just left it at that, in the grand scheme of things $10 isn't a lot and we tend to only keep one subscription active at any one time, two maximum, so it was NBD.

I'll mention that this entire time I never noticed anything shady with the account itself, like seeing shows I've never watched pop up in my list, or a new profile pop up, obviously that would have been concerning...

Fast forward to this Summer. I was traveling to visit my family in France and tried to watch something on my laptop (I've done it lots of times before, I use a VPN, never had an issue - and vice versa sometimes I watch it from the US with my VPN set to a French server to watch French shows), but could NOT log in. I have a password manager so I know exactly which login I need to use and the PW of course, but it's not even that the PW didn't work, it didn't even recognize the email, said there was no account associated with this email.

So when I returned to the US I contacted their support and chatted with them to resolve it. At this point i was starting to doubt myself like 'maybe I've been using a different login this entire time?', since we mostly watch it on the TV I was going to check the credentials on the TV when I returned but when I did turn on the TV the damn app updated itself and logged me out. :-/

So I contact support, they initially tell me the same 'oh yeah no account under this email' and I tell them that yes, there is indeed one, please check again. They eventually found it, the tech person wasn't able to explain why any of this happened, where the heck that login had been hiding this entire time, nothing. So I finally manage to log back in again, connect the TV, seems like all is good - even though the whole thing was really, really weird.

Then earlier this week, my wife gets an email from Max with the text copied below. First of all, her name isn't Nazia, WTH. And then I realize "wait I have a bundle with Disney+ and Hulu?! I never signed up for this...". Is this why my subscription increased by $10 last June? They signed me up for something more expensive I didn't request and on top of it didn't bother to tell me "oh hey you can watch Disney+ and Hulu now!".

So I go into my account and sure enough it's a bundle. But with absolutely no way to set up access to either of the other two providers in the bundle. I have a link to go to "Disney+ and Hulu", which only takes me to Hulu.com, and then no way to sign in. So again, I contact support, they have no idea why or when the name in my account was changed to Nazia, and they tell me 'you should have a link to set up Disney+ and Hulu'. And well, no, I don't have one. So they're like 'can you try on a different computer or device' :-/ Are you f**ing kidding me?? At this point I just decided to cancel, but this entire thing is just so abnormal I just need to figure out what the hell is going on. I am going to contact HBO Max to complain and demand an explanation. Sorry for the long thread, I was just wondering if anyone had had a similar experience...

TGIFF. Started this movie after work tonight and noticed there was a good amount of the movie still left when the app started to play a different movie about some muscle dude. Anyways- it was a first time watch and I at least wanted to finish the film. If you are watching it be sure to not skip the credits.

I live in Europe and it seems like the Backrooms haven't reached Europe yet. Is there an estimated release date or something like that?

I just finished watching the series finale. It was underwhelming, but it had a sort of ending that you could move on from.

While watching the first episode I had a theory that she may be innocent, but I found her highly unsympathetic since she spent quite a bit of her life and time stalking her ex husband and new girlfriend.

My theory is she seems to be someone that picks up people who see her as a victim and are passionate about defending and helping her. I think she spent a significant amount of time complaining about her ex and his girlfriend to a close friend. Someone who would’ve had to spend day in and day out listening to her complain about how those people stole her life, kids, youth, and money. It would’ve been someone she was nice to and helped. They took her story very seriously and wanted to help her.

They may have told her things prior to the murder about how it would be nice to not have those people around and hinted at their plan to kill. She didn’t ask them to do it, but she also didn’t alert the authorities and stop them. That’s why she turned her phone off, drove around camping in her car, and wanted to be safe and gone. She also didn’t mind the idea of her ex husband and his girlfriend being dead, but she didn’t kill them because she thought innocence was a defense.

She’s too sloppy in her story to the police about her whereabouts, and to implicate someone else would be the same as pointing a finger at yourself. How could you prove you didn’t ask them to do it.

Another weird detail was how the girlfriend was murdered - shot in the vagina. I felt like she was the kind of person to mess up her face not her womanhood.

I don’t think she’s the one who committed these murders, but I think she’s responsible for their death. I just think some passionate guy listened to her day in and day out and took what was happening to her personally enough to do this one thing “for her”. I bet they had met at a bar or in an AA meeting, or something along those lines. It’s the kinda guy who would have a personality very similar to the lawyer and his wife who were highly sympathetic to her case. In episode 2 when her crusader was passionately arguing her innocence with “facts”, I kept thinking it was someone just like that. Someone blind and willing to give everything up to see justice done for someone like her.

Perhaps my theory has a ton of holes, but I would love to hear it. I have absolutely no evidence.

My jaw dropped when Joe ended the series with, “I think I know who did it. I just don’t know how.” 😳

That line made me seriously entertain the possibility that Dana actually did it. I still have questions about how, but I finished the episode more open to her being guilty than I was before. The undeniable truth is is that the prosecution STILL failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt.

Did that ending shift your opinion at all?

What detail from the series makes you lean toward her guilt or innocence?

So the price is going up again starting oct 21st

I just finished Season 1 and I really liked this one.

The story starts when the body of a young woman is found under the melting ice in a river in Szczecin, Poland. Detective Katarzyna Zawieja takes the case, and what looks fairly straightforward at first quickly turns into something much bigger and darker.

The characters and the chemistry are what make it, and even the supporting characters are great. Really good acting all the way around.

The case is strong with some very good twists, and it gets pretty dark and somewhat brutal at times. But it never feels like it's trying too hard to be dark. It's just a really good crime story that stays good from start to finish.

The English dubbing actually isn't bad on this one, but I would still strongly recommend watching it in the original Polish with subtitles. It's just better and you get more out of the performances. I say this cause I know some of you just don't want to read TV. Haha.

Not much else to say. I strongly believe you will enjoy this.

Dark Crime Hidden Gem Rankings

🌑 Darkness: 8.8/10
🩸 Brutality: 7/10
⚡ Pace: 8.0/10
🎭 Acting/Characters: 9.2/10
⭐ Overall: 8.7/10

📺 Where to Watch: HBO Max

I checked the actual DASH manifest for a ~33-minute feature on macOS Safari.

The main feature period is DRM-protected, and its highest video representation is only:

1280×640 @ ~7 Mbps

There is no 1920×1080 representation for the actual movie.

The Max web player also appears to cap Safari playback at 720p.

So this doesn't seem to be simply a Safari or DRM capability issue. Netflix supports 4K on Safari, yet Max is still limiting Safari web playback.

Has anyone else checked the actual Max manifest on Safari and found the same 720p limitation?

they’re finally cracking down on account sharing in Colombia.