Is Max eradicating The Leftovers from its library of HBO originals subsequent?
After a number of reviews emerged this week indicating that the beloved HBO authentic drama could be faraway from the streaming library on June 3, a consultant for Max has confirmed to TV Insider that these rumors are unfaithful and the present won’t be faraway from the library. In different phrases, it received’t be departing any time within the foreseeable future.
The Leftovers ran for 3 seasons on HBO from 2014 to 2017, with the primary season adapting Tom Perrotta’s 2011 novel of the identical title in regards to the “Sudden Departure” during which 2% of all individuals have disappeared and not using a hint, and the remainder of the world reels from these disappearances in numerous methods.
It was co-created by Damon Lindelof, and, regardless of common weekly viewership scores, the present earned such a loyal following that followers dressed up in white, carried cigarettes, and silently protested at HBO’s Manhattan places of work to channel the “Responsible Remnant” cult members from the present in hopes of inspiring its renewal (and it labored). The sequence is extensively considered one of the egregiously snubbed dramas in TV historical past after its star performers (Justin Theroux, Ann Dowd, Carrie Coon, Amy Brenneman, Christopher Eccleston, and Regina King amongst them) and writers had been ignored for Emmys.
The concept of the present not being obtainable to stream had some followers expressing fury on-line. On the subreddits for The Leftovers and HBO Max, for instance, some even threatened to cancel their subscriptions over a Leftovers disappearance.
“This present is the purpose I get Max, so if it goes, I suppose they’ll lose my enterprise. It’s good to have all the films and sh**, however The Leftovers is why I signed up and if it’s not there for me to dip into once I’m feeling like sh** I suppose I’ll take my enterprise again to books,” one fan wrote. “If they nix The Leftovers stream — actually needed to do a fifth watching of it quickly — I feel that’ll be the straw,” one other fan wrote of their patronage to the streamer. “The leftovers is without doubt one of the finest exhibits of all time. Not to mention on MAX. Why?” added a 3rd fan.
One fan even in contrast a rumored removing of The Leftovers to scrubbing The Sopranos, suggesting that it’s a equally essential a part of the HBO model at this level: “It’s so silly they’re eradicating The Leftovers. I don’t suppose they might ever take away The Sopranos.”
One Redditor claimed to report the problem to Max’s assist crew and in addition acquired an assurance that the information isn’t true.
If the story had been true, it wouldn’t be the primary time a serious HBO authentic was scrapped from the streamer. Beforehand, Max eliminated Westworld from its platform in 2022. Casey Bloys, CEO of HBO and Max, instructed Number of Westworld‘s ouster, “Does each single library present that we’ve got on HBO Max have to be unique to HBO Max? I’d say no. Folks sort of neglect the historical past of tv was home windows, DVDs. These are costly exhibits to make. The concept that they’re going to sit down in a library perpetually and ever for $15 a month, that’s by no means how TV has operated.”
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