What’s in Store for HBO Max in October 2020
HBO Max is still not available on Roku or Amazon Fire Stick. Just wanted to get it out of the way because I know a lot of people are still mad about it – and for good reason because legal skirmishes between streamer and hosting platforms hide the fact that Max is easily one of the best paid services out there. for movie fans, and is gradually increasing its list of exclusive TV series and special presentations. Case in point: the October an exclusive part of HBO Max includes reunion The West Wing, awkwardly named A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote, which will reunite the surviving actors of this magical liberal fantasy saga (plus a special statement of Barack Obama.) As an ode to the cold and completely the relaxed political landscape of the early 2000s.
If you’ve gotten enough of even fictional politics but still want to get inspired, Equal is a new documentary series that sheds light on the LGBT movement in America, going back to the days before Stonewall. Conversely, A World of Calm sounds like a visual Ambien – it is billed as a combination of “hypnotic imagery” and “Category 1 star storytelling.” It also has a ton of movies coming in that you can’t watch if you just have a “regular HBO channel,” including a few classics I’ve recommended elsewhere . (Personally, I’ll be comparing and contrasting John Waters’ hairspray and later musical adaptations with John Travolta, and perhaps indulge in a nostalgic revision of early 90s teenage mutant turtle films.) Still, even if you are put them on. You don’t have Max (or you have one, but can’t watch it on your Roku), there are plenty of good things on HBO Regular as well, including David Byrne’s American Utopia , a filmed version of Spike’s Broadway hit by Talking Heads frontman. Lee, this should thrill anyone who has ever seen Stop Understanding . There’s also The Undoing , a limited-series event starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant starring a once-happy couple going through the turmoil of “violent death and a chain of gruesome revelations.” You can also see the season finals of Lovecraft Country, The Oath, and Room 104.
HBO is also adding a bunch of recent theatrical releases, including the classic 2019 Cats series , which is news worth a paragraph in its own right.
That’s all for HBO and HBO Max in October. Titles with (HBO) next to them are available on all HBO services. Everything else is exclusive to HBO Max.