Why TV Fans Are Going to Need MAX in 2025: The White Lotus, The Last of Us, The Pitt, and More [Video]

2025 is already shaping up to be a strong year for HBO. On Sunday night, the network took home four Golden Globes for its 2024 television programming. Two of those awards were for Hacks Season 3, once more proving the sharp comedy’s impressively enduring allure (and ability to stave off The Bear‘s assumed hold on awards voters), while another was for Colin Farrell‘s leading performance in this past fall’s The Penguin. Farrell’s win — alongside that Batman movie spin-off’s near universal critical and commercial acclaim — position The Penguin as a key Emmys contender come fall 2025 and a major building block for DC comics’ future in TV and film.

These are the kinds of wins, in the wake of FX’s Shōgun and Netflix’s Baby Reindeer‘s non-stop 2024 supremacy, that give HBO much-needed awards season momentum to build off of in the new year. Also giving HBO and its streaming service MAX a huge boost? An insanely …