Check out HBO Max’s serious selection of shows and movies from all of its partner networks, including HBO, Discovery, Food Network, and more. New shows and movies are always being added, so here are my three top picks for this weekend and the week ahead, plus everything new streaming below. The end of August leads to early September, and we’ve got the return of Rick and Morty, intense documentaries, and more. Here are the three best things to put on your watchlist; the full list is below.
This Week on Max: PCMag’s Picks
Horses & Hangmen (Aug. 29)
The new Dutch-language HBO Max original docuseries Horses & Hangmen follows one of the most mysterious cases in the Netherlands’ history. When seemingly normal family man Frank Dan Nørgaard Jørgensen vanishes from the small town where he lives, his family fears the worst. A few days later, his car is found burned out in a parking lot. The investigation reveals a terrifying conspiracy from some very unusual suspects.
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Genre: Documentary
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Rating: TV-MA
Ruby & Jodi: A Cult of Sin and Influence (Sept. 1)
The world of mommyblogging is full of bizarre scandals and stories, and the new documentary series Ruby & Jodi: A Cult of Sin and Influence delves into one of the weirdest. When Mormon mom Ruby Franke hooked up with rogue counselor Jodi Hildebrandt, the duo briefly rose to fame before their disturbing disciplinary methods drew criticism, then arrests.
Rick and Morty: Season 8 (Sept. 1)
Adult Swim’s most popular show continues to rack up the wins. In the eighth season of Rick and Morty, our unscrupulous genius and his teenage companion get into lots more scraps featuring virtual realities, the Easter Bunny, and an entire planet full of their clones. This season has some of the best critical ratings the show’s had in a while, and it’s still a lot of fun.
HBO Max New Releases This Week
August 29
Horses & Hangmen
Silly Sundays – Season 1C
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August 31
Iyanu – Season 1B
September 1
A Life of Her Own
Almost Christmas
Barney’s World – Season 1D
Caged (1950)
Charley Chase Silent Shorts
Children Who Chase Lost Voices
December 7th (1943)
Dog Day Afternoon
Emmanuelle (2024)
Evil Dead II (1987)
Fireworks (2017)
Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko
Gasoline Alley (1951)
Ghost Cat Anzu
Goodfellas
Helen of Troy (1956)
Jonah Hex
Keeper of the Flame (1942)
Kismet (1944)
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Love & Pop
Man From The Black Hills
Mary of Scotland
Misery
Montana Incident
Mr. District Attorney
Murder Is My Beat
Mystery Street
Night Nurse
No End in Sight
No Questions Asked
Nobody Lives Forever
On Dangerous Ground (1951)
Our Miss Brooks
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
Pirate Radio
Presenting Princess Shaw
Prometheus
Rick and Morty – Season 8
Ruby & Jodi: A Cult of Sin and Influence
Safe Haven
Scene of the Crime
Se7en
Selena (1997)
Shadow of a Woman
Splinter (2008)
Stranger on Horseback
Summer Storm (1944)
Susan and God
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
The Charge at Feather River
The Command (1954)
The Fallen Sparrow
The Fate of the Furious
The Fate of the Furious: Extended Director’s Cut
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
The Sea of Grass
The Secret Garden (1949)
The Sitter (2011)
The Sitter: Unrated (2011)
The Woman in White (1948)
The Woman on the Beach
Thirteen Women
Veronica Mars (2014)
Vigil in the Night
When Ladies Meet (1941)
Without Love
Young Bess
Your Name
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