Since the premium cable network’s start in the 1970s, the words “HBO” and “free” have been a pipe dream. But, realistically, who can afford another monthly subscription?
Fortunately, freebies are the product of an all-out conflict between large media conglomerates as they compete for your money, and HBO Max has provided us with a decent one.
HBO Max app to your phone
It’s simple to have a look: Simply download the HBO Watch Party Max app to your phone, TV, fridge, or whatever device you like, and begin streaming any of the 13 offerings. But, after you’ve decided to go in, what should you look out for? Here are five shows to watch for free on HBO Max during its free trial period that will convince you to subscribe immediately:
Sure, the uninspiring title might lead you to believe it’s just a program about handing out peanut bags, but this HBO Max exclusive is also a globetrotting whodunnit comedic thriller with espionage elements, so you know, books and covers.
On an international trip to Thailand, Kaley Cuoco plays the titular flight attendant, who has a drunken romance with one of her customers and wakes up next to his body the next morning.
This sends her on a quest to uncover out what occurred, who killed her one-night boyfriend, and how to avoid the suspicious creeps and feds who appear to be following her around at all hours of the day and night. It’s fast-paced, thrilling, and strangely humorous.
HBO’s Perry Mason
Despite its critics, HBO’s Perry Mason revival is the ideal programme for Matthew Rhys fans and cool dads. Rhys, who won an Emmy for his role in FX’s The Americans, dons the fedora of one of television’s most well-known characters and spices him up for today’s audience with random sex and a desire for brown booze. Starting Perry Mason as a private investigator for a law company before turning him into the defense lawyer we’ve come to know him as was a clever choice.
for HBO because it gets some dirt under his fingernails and reestablishes him with a splash of antiheroism. The plot is complicated, and Tatiana Maslany plays a screaming preacher, but the performance is excellent. The sheer amount of Asian-American representation should be enough to make you want to watch this action series that was finally ported over from Cinemax, where it was sadly mired in obscurity, but stay for the solid gangster drama of Cinemax’s best show since The Knick (which isn’t included in this free trial but is available on HBO Max).
Set in late-nineteenth-century San Francisco, Warrior is based on Bruce Lee’s writings and directed by his daughter Shannon. It follows a Chinese immigrant (as-yet-unknown Andrew Koji) whose ability to turn his fists and feet into lethal blurs comes in handy as muscle for a local tong (a Chinese gang) during bloody turf wars.