HBO Max disappears – the brand new streaming service Max will not be an enormous win for viewers

The brand new streaming service Max accommodates quite a bit – which you don’t need

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TV CHRONICLE The content material is certainly twice as giant, however I nonetheless solely need the previous half. Which is now getting costlier.

The brand new bundled streaming service Max is sensible as a enterprise determination however no large win for viewers.

So, HBO Max and Discovery+ have merged to grow to be Max.

I discover the brand new service just under the menu of a big Swedish quick meals chain, and my first impression is greatest summed up with an image.

It’s Pernilla wahlgren which sits on a funds model of the iron throne from “Sport of thrones”, which is now golden and adorned with microphones.

It’s a promotional picture for the fifteenth season of “Wahlgren’s world”, and each the picture and the truth that the subdued however nonetheless enormously standard actuality collection is likely one of the large attracts on the Swedish launch says most about the kind of service Max goals to be.

One the place the letters HBO, which for the reason that late 90s have been related to high quality, status and adult-oriented, typically ground-breaking content material, have been unsentimentally hijacked to sign breadth earlier than creed.

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full screenPernilla Wahlgren in her golden iron throne. Picture: Press photograph

Max needs to be a service for the entire household and for all tastes, for collection geeks, actuality lovers, sports activities followers, youngsters, younger folks and people who choose to observe blockbuster films.

HBO nonetheless has its personal unique hub, which you thank and tick off, however on the house web page and in varied collections that really feel each extra and fewer elaborate (what on earth is the snop and snop parade “Bare attraction” doing throughout ” love tales?) “The wire” is discovered aspect by aspect with “90 day fiancé”, “Succession” subsequent to “Bare and afraid” and “Intercourse and the town” along with “Milf manor 2”.

A sure cognitive dissonance happens. Admittedly, it is a bit messy at first. And spontaneously, I personally do not cheer myself to demise over a brand new, greater value for content material that, whereas (in line with Warner Bros Discovery themselves) is twice as a lot as what was beforehand on HBO Max, however is 50 % made up of issues I do not need even when they’re thrown at me.

It is like strolling right into a storied division retailer to purchase a pair of handmade Italian leather-based footwear and popping out with ten pairs of twinkling plastic slippers from Want.

Or, extra particularly, like ready for the continuation of “Home of the dragon” – and getting the Wahlgrens in Westeros as a questionable appetizer.

However, in actuality, in fact, in as we speak’s streaming competitors, it’s higher to be large, sturdy and extensive as a barn wall than to be skinny, sensible and snobby. The development in the direction of fewer and costlier providers and extra collaborations is evident and logical, in order that Warner Bros Discovery has chosen to go this route is no surprise in any respect.

And possibly not silly both. A bigger service will get significantly extra muscle than two smaller ones, and higher alternatives to even come near the clear market chief Netflix. And with the various sports activities rights, Max also can tie a considerable share of essentially the most prepared to pay clients to him.

The truth that we viewers are hardly the winners of this odd compelled marriage is one other matter solely.

FJELLBORG’S FAVORITES

testEverybody however us

With the launch of Max, season two of this Swedish gem is included White August and Björn Gustafsson as a younger couple with eager for youngsters and fertility issues premiere. Each very humorous and unhappy, and truly even higher than the final time.

testThis isn’t Sweden

An anxious middle-class couple from Barcelona who’ve moved up into the mountains to provide their youngsters a protected upbringing idealize Sweden and Swedish child-rearing on this hectic however spot-on drama-comedy on SVT Play. With Liv Mjönes and Ia Langhammer in supporting roles.

testThe 8 present

Eight strangers compete in a weird spectacle/social experiment the place time is actually cash and the situations are as unfair as life itself. Netflix’s newest Okay-drama will not be a brand new “Squid sport”, however has a scrumptious aesthetic and is price testing.

Discover extra of Fjellborg’s favorites at television.nu