It was a long old wait for HBO Max here in the UK, and there were certainly times in the past decade when I found it pretty much unbelievable that we still didn't have basically the most famous prestige TV platform in the world as a standalone service. Sky's deals with HBO probably delayed the process, but now it's here, and that means a whole heap of temptation to add another subscription to the roster.
In most meaningful ways, I'm exactly the target market for HBO Max's launch; I'm pretentious enough to believe that I have actual taste in TV, so I don't want the sort of reality TV served up by some other streamers, and there are enough gaps in my viewing history to ensure that some of HBO's historic older shows are still on my to-watch list.
