Better than Netflix ?: 10 HBO Max series that Latin America was looking forward to

HBO Max’s arrival in the streaming market was far from unnoticed and included numerous series that were trending all over the world since its debut on May 27, 2020. Latin American fans had to be patient because the platform just arrived in the region on June 29, 2021. Now they are ready to enjoy the most famous titles in the catalog and that everyone was waiting. Review the 10 you must see without fail!

10 HBO Max series that Latin America was looking forward to

10-Lovecraft Country

Premiere: 2016

Seasons: 1

Created by: Misha Green

Protagonists: Jurnee Smollett, Jonathan Majors, Aunjanue Ellis, Courtney B. Vance, Wunmi Mosaku, Abbey Lee, Jamie Chung.

Plot: An African American family experiences the combination of the horror of the works of HP Lovecraft with the racism of the USA in the 50s.

9-Sharp Objects

Premiere: 2018

Seasons: 1

Created by: Marti Noxon.

Protagonists: Amy Adams, Patricia Clarkson, Chris Messina, Eliza Scanlen, Matt Craven, Henry Czerny.

Plot: A journalist faces her dark past when she must return to her hometown to cover the murder of two girls.

8-Love Life

Premiere: 2020

Seasons: 1

Created by: Sam Boyd.

Protagonists: Anna Kendrick, Zoë Chao, Peter Vack y Sasha Compère.

Plot: Anna Kendrick stars in this romantic comedy that follows a young New Yorker in search of the ideal partner for her. Each episode tells the tangled tale of Darby’s love affairs.

7-I May Destroy you

Premiere: 2020

Seasons: 1

Created by:  Michaela Coel.

Protagonists: Michaela Coel, Weruche Opia, Paapa Essiedu.

Plot: Arabella (Michaela Coel) is a confident woman who must rebuild every element of her life after being sexually assaulted.

6-Insecure

Premiere: 2016

Seasons: 3

Created by: Hernán Goldfrid, Pablo Fendrik.

Protagonists: Issa Rae, Prentice Penny, Michael Rotenberg, Melina Matsoukas, Dave Becky, Jonathan Berry.

Plot: Friends Issa and Molly bring us the story of two black women who defy all stereotypes.

5-Watchmen

Premiere: 2019

Seasons: 1

Created by: Damon Lindelof.

Protagonists:  Regina King, Don Johnson, Tim Blake Nelson, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Andrew Howard, Jacob Ming-Trent, Tom Mison, Sara Vickers, Dylan Schombing, Louis Gossett Jr. y Jeremy Irons.

Plot: HBO presents a current take on the iconic graphic novel about a society polarized in its repudiation of masked vigilantes.

4-Succession

Premiere: 2018

Seasons: 2

Created by: Jesse Armstrong.

Protagonists: Hiam Abbass, Nicholas Braun, Brian Cox, Kieran Culkin, Peter Friedman, Natalie Gold, Matthew Macfadyen, Alan Ruck.

Plot– A scathing and hilarious HBO drama that explores politics, money, and power through the eyes of a rather dysfunctional family.

3-The Flight Attendant

Premiere: 2020

Seasons: 2

Created by: Kaley Cuoco.

Protagonists: Kaley Cuoco, Michiel Huisman, Zosia Mamet, T. R. Knight, Michelle Gomez, Colin Woodell.

Plot: The Flight Attendant is a suspenseful dark comedy about how a life can change overnight. A flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man and having no idea what happened.

2-Euphoria

Premiere: 2019

Seasons: 1

Created by: Sam Levinson.

Protagonists: Zendaya, Maude Apatow, Angus Cloud, Eric Dane, Alexa Demie, Jacob Elordi, Barbie Ferreira.

Plot: A group of teenagers experience the ups and downs of love and friendship in a world of social networks, sex, drugs and violence.

1-Mare of Easttown

Premiere: 2017

Seasons: 1

Created by: Brad Ingelsby.

Protagonists: Kate Winslet, Jean Smart, Guy Pearce, Julianne Nicholson, Angourie Rice, David Denman, Evan Peters, Sosie Bacon y John Douglas Thompson.

PlotKate Winslet plays a small-town Pennsylvania detective investigating a local murder as her life falls apart.