HBO Max, formerly called Max, is an American subscription video and on-demand streaming service from AT&T's WarnerMedia. The service launched on May 27, 2020. The service is based on WarnerMedia's HBO premium TV service and includes all of its programming, plus a range of additional original programming and content from all parts of WarnerMedia, as well as third-party content providers from which WarnerMedia acquired streaming rights.
The company rebranded from HBO Max to Max in 2023, until it announced its reversion to HBO Max in 2025.
HBO Max Originals[]
Original content produced will be under the banner HBO Max Originals, including series, films, and specials. Original episodic content is released weekly, eschewing the "binge" format made popular by Netflix. On February 5, 2020, Warner Bros. announced that it would form a new label known as Warner Max to produce 8 to 10 mid-budget films for the service annually.
- Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin
- Gossip Girl
- Raised by Wolves
- Love Life
- Zach Snyder's Justice League
Pretty Little Liars[]
When HBO Max was planning to launch, their parent company Warner Bros. Media slowly began pulling WB original series off other streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu. The network quickly acquired exclusive streaming rights to the hit Warner Bros. drama Pretty Little Liars in 2019, pulling it from its place on Netflix on July 27, 2019. Pretty Little Liars was unavailable to stream anywhere in the United States until the service launched in May 2020. When the service launched Pretty Little Liars was among the headliners used in promotion.
In September of 2020, the network announced they had ordered a spinoff of Pretty Little Liars, titled, Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, to series with a ten episode order. On July 28, 2022, Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin premiered with a three-episode event, and became one of the most popular series on the platform. It was given a second season order before it cancelation.
Trivia[]
- HBO Max is home to three out of four Pretty Little Liars universe series, Pretty Little Liars, The Perfectionists and the newest Original Sin. They don't, however, stream Ravenswood due to the lack of popularity in their own right. Ravenswood is on The CW Seed.
- Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists, however, is only available on South American Max packages and is not currently available in the US.
