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| Pinta & the Santa Maria Has Achieved Nirvana  |
We have a subscription to HBO and HBO Max as part of our cable package. We've been trying to watch "Mare of Easttown" (which I highly recommend if you have access), but we've been unable to finish it. Why....? Because stupid HBO Max doesn't work. We try to cue up anything on that platform and we get stuck with the "In the Heights" trailer. We can't get past it. When we hit play for anything, it takes us to the In the Heights trailer. We even thought we needed to just watch it (the trailer), which we did--only to have it freeze at the end and not revert back to the menu. Then we discovered that it only was an issue for our primary TV in the living room. Our secondary cable box worked just fine. How odd. Off to deal with comcast on this. I'm taking a bedroll and provisions. | ||
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We get it through Roku. There are some hiccups, but it's not too bad. I had an issue last week where HBO Max (and only HBO Max) wasn't working, I'd get in but it wouldn't let me into any of the shows (something about my account, it said). The issue was solved by simply unplugging the Roku from the power outlet for 10 seconds. | |||
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I just got a Roku. For as little as it costs it seems to work very well!
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Good thing we are going to watch In The Heights tonight. The stage show was great. You could see the genesis of Hamilton in it. Hope the movie is too.
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| Pinta & the Santa Maria Has Achieved Nirvana |
We're having a family dinner/viewing tonight as well. We were lucky enough to have seen it in its first run on B'way with LMM in the lead role. At the time it was groundbreaking because it incorporated rap. It's very good--can't wait to see it again tonight! | |||
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It was very good. There were differences from the stage version ... some I liked, some I did not. But mostly it was faithful to the stage version. After people have seen it, we can discuss the differences, but I don't want to spoil it for anyone. | |||
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We liked it too. The changes were mostly of scale because they could do such bigger scenes, but it was pretty faithful. Loved all the cameos.
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| Does This Avatar Make My Butt Look Big? Minor Deity  |
What is this thing you call a cable box? YouTube tv works well, all the time. And no boxes. | |||
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They did downplay some story lines, and minimized some characters. They wound up eliminating one song I liked, and the ending was different. You could see LMM's hand in the changes, though. | |||
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Yeah, the lottery ticket thing was underplayed, as was LMM's shaved ice guy. He kind of served as a narrator in the stage show.
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I liked the ending, even being different. Saw it coming, but still liked it.
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Annnd cancel culture eats it's own. https://www.rollingstone.com/m...qBS_wP_gwuKbtMblcWf8
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| Pinta & the Santa Maria Has Achieved Nirvana |
Still haven't seen it....  And this HBO Max thing is driving me up a wall. I can't figure out a reason why it only malfunctions on the primary TV set. Comcast says not their problem, because it's a "third party app." There's no way to get customer support for HBO Max. I can watch from our other TVs, from computers and even cast from a computer to the (nonfunctioning) TV. But I can't figure out why it won't work and it's driving me bananas. I've rebooted a bunch of times, powered down, waited, powered back up, reset the gateway (whatever that is), and finally we even got a new cable box. It worked the first time we used it with the new cable box, and now it's back to refusing to queue up and play anything we select. Any ideas? | |||
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Apparently you aren't alone. Maybe something will pop up in this Reddit thread if the one suggestion doesn't pan out for you... https://www.reddit.com/r/Comca...iculty_with_hbo_max/
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We watched Heights the night it came out. I enjoyed it, but thought the pacing was a bit frenetic and I hard a hard time following what was being said.
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