2025s HBO Max: Back to the Drawing Board

It sounds like that the Warner Bros.-Discovery streaming platform Max are going to be rebranding again, for turning it back the name that was originally envisionned first... HBO Max! Five years have changed for almost nothing.

In this age when streamings rivals producing too much without ever count their pennies, and where consumers took many pains to fit to the meets end or what they would ate the next day, the HBO Max's throwback is more than a surprising one, and when saturations of contents by the rehashs of same themes and franchises from Disney+ et all has just shown a step down to what a creator's content have to be like and act in our toxic, modern-day world.

Back in May 2020, this is Looney Tunes Cartoons, a fresh take of the beloved Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies franchise with all-new shorts of 5 minutes each, (Splitted onto two individual shorts for make one twelve-minute episode) that have launch the platform. And also the unthinkable task to restored and re-remastered the remaining of the Warner Bros. filmography, including the cartoons shorts from M-G-M that were in the limbo by the COVID-19 studio's lockdown. When we known that a Post-Production house has altered the titles and credits with some dreary cloning Photoshopped titles and some digital errors more egregious than others, it's hard not to see something's wrong. To think it do costs them $15 000,00 in-house to remastered one single short.

Now that the initial production of newer series of shorts is likely over, HBO Max make it back again after two very drastic years of change in motions by the Discovery merger and the box-office failures of past Warner movies. When Disney suffocated lately of a problem to producing too much Star Wars rehashs and generic cartoons made for a very Instagramable world, Warner Bros.-Discovery have to paid debts for these past failures, including its platform's profit. If only that was that simple...

Because by year like 2023, HBO Max plugged off the amount of the Post-1950 WB cartoons of the platform, by be maybe the last opportunity to watch the funniest cartoons grouping of all-time in a platform dedicated to them. The Bugs Bunny and pals franchise struggled again in the streaming age, but nonthenless, Me-TV, Boomerang and Me-TV Toons still playing them regularly. (Discovery Family had also shown a package of shorts that consists of "safe"  and "suitable" cartoons for the little children audience who have grwoth with My Little Pony) In Canada, it's nowhere to be found, even not on Boomerang Canada when it's a joke since Day 1!

Back in 2020, that was Looney Tunes that made HBO Max to the map. Five years later, it's a new Harry Potter series, even by the long backlash of transphobia against author J.K. Rowling on X and of course, if you try to made nuances in anything on X, you know you're in trouble.

The premise of the 2025s HBO Max is producing quality contents over quantity like it is nowadays the norm in any streamings platforms. That was part of why the HBO brand had influenced generations of people for their cinematic storytelling, complex characters and arcs that even the best of theater movies had for long snubbed. But in 2025, who watch HBO, now? Probably the nostalgics who work in medias and who think to be more smarter than the working-class people the brand love a lot to ridicule them.

If it wasn't for its Games of Thrones, it will be forever that no one would says of HBO at relevant. Now, it's Netflix who plays the cards of what storytelling have to be made, by be something all the BD and comics industry need to learn instead to producing more for a low pay-off.