Many subscribers have dealt with the inconsistent libraries of modern streaming services. After all, with so many competitors in the market, it’s not unusual to find shows or movies leaping between platforms. Now, however, fans were surprised to see a beloved series briefly vanish from Max.
Max, formerly known as HBO Max, has been Warner Bros. Discovery’s main streaming service. The service was first established prior to Warner Bros’ merge with Discovery, and since then, CEO David Zaslav has been reshaping it as he sees fit.
Of course, subscribers have expressed their own issues with some of the decision making on that front. Now audiences are perplexed to have seen one of the strangest movies yet by the service. A fan-favorite series, which originally debuted on HBO no less, was briefly removed from the service before being added back.
The 2019 series Watchmen is based on the 1986 DC Comics series of the same name. It received critical acclaim and it’s been a staple of Max’s catalog ever since. As noted via Dark Horizons, however, it was temporarily unavailable on the service. Many fans worried that Max made the decision to have it removed as so many other shows have been since Zaslav’s takeover.
As noted, however, two HBO sources reportedly had this to say:
“WATCHMEN has not been purposely removed from the Max or HBO libraries; it hasn’t been Zas’ed,” the publication shares. “There was some sort of tech glitch.”
It’s unknown what exactly the glitch could’ve been. Interestingly enough, however, the publication did note that it “happened very close to a major Netflix outage which saw that streaming service down for many customers for around three hours.” Fortunately, it looks like everything is back in order.
While consumers are becoming more dependent on streaming services to receive their content, especially at a time when so much of it is exclusive to them, this is certainly a reminder that it’s always good for other alternatives – namely physical media – to be available. Stay tuned to ScreenGeek for any additional updates regarding Max and this beloved series as we have them.