Posted on 08/24/2022 11:20:52 AM PDT by Drew68
I would say try HBOMax on another device. I have it through Roku, native app on my Bravia GoogleTV OS, and on XBox Series X. Each streaming app looks better on the same TV on different platforms, and has less issues. I watched HOTD on the Roku and the XBox and it looked great. The native app in GoogleTV for HBOMax is terrible and laggy, very aliased and pixelated (same for Netflix). The opposite is true on Amazon Prime, where the GoogleTV native app on the Bravia is much better than Roku.
GOT was not for kids so ya there was “porn” still a very good series
I heard it was full of violence, then watched it and wondered what people were talking about. I thought it was good and it got me asking more questions.
Is this going to be just one season?
Translation: it has porn?
Started watching Game of Thrones for the first time and I’m no prude, but I got a little turned off by the gratuitous sex scenes. HBO really likes to amp up the sexual content. I heard Euphoria is even worse, so I won’t be wandering over there.
Plenty of free porn online if I get the urge...
Breaking Bad set the bar very high for great endings...
HBO is planning on 3-4 seasons.
And I thought Game of Thrones set the bar very high for the quality of visual entertainment that you should expect on your 4k home theater, even if the story suffered from time to time.
GoT was total eye-candy, a big screen cinema experience in your living room and they absolutely established the bar with this.
In fact, I think shows like BB and GoT are hurting the motion picture industry because now audiences have grown to expect the kind of deep, detailed storytelling that only a multi-season series like BB can deliver as well as the world-building, the sets, costumes, and FX that shows like GoT delivered.
A 2-hour movie these days just feels so unfulfilling.
The trade-off however is that with shows like these, there are a lot of people who are going to sit them out until there's a few seasons and then binge everything in a few weeks.
I didn't watch a minute of Breaking Bad while it aired, not starting it until about a year after the series concluded. I didn't watch GoT until Season 6 was airing and then I binged the previous seasons.
A lot of people want to be ensured that the network is going to commit to the show before they commit their time to a series that winds up getting cancelled before it concludes (I'm talking to you HBO and "Raised by Wolves").
but I’d rather be on a Ping list than run it
Zackly.
Yeah I found it to be meh.
They are supposed to do a sequel with Jon Snow (Kit Harington). Some potential there. But they need George R. R. Martin to do the writing. He can really visualize the fantasy world in one giant chess match. A bunch of writers from Hollywood do not have that ability to carry out that kind of storytelling.
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