But much to the chagrin of every broke twentysomething TV fan who doesn’t care about ESPN or Bravo (and there are more than a few), you cannot buy HBO Go à la carte without also paying for a cable package. If you subscribe to HBO on cable, you get its online streaming service, HBO Go, as part of the bargain. It’s not.īefore getting into the weeds on this, some background. I promise you, the network is not actively encouraging, or even tacitly condoning, people who beg, borrow, or steal passwords to their streaming service for the sake of exposure. The True Detective finale has come and gone, but judging from the furious emails that have been flying around the Slate listserv, the raw feelings over HBO Go’s Sunday-night outage are still lingering among a certain set of television connoisseurs.Īnd so is a misconception about HBO’s business philosophy.
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