We haven’t had HBO since the early 1970 when I noticed that they show nothing but repeats after repeats, and I don’t see any reason to pay $10 extra just to watch that crabby channel
My parents first got HBO in 1976 when cable TV came to our neighborhood. It signed off at 12 midnight each night and it took a few years before they made it 24-7 movies. The 8pm Saturday night premier feature was a big deal then , and it was the first time we could watch un-cut-up movies at home.
I got it again as part of a cable package 2003 to 2008 and it had a couple of historial drama series I liked, Deadwood and Rome. But there were so many liberal movies on it and they raised the price to almost $20 which no channel is worth. When I changed to Verizon FIOS they had much better movie package deals that excluded HBO. I get about 50 movie channels now.