First, look at what’s coming to HBO Max this week. As a reminder, you can read about what’s new on HBO Max every week with our weekly roundups. The latest TV Shows scheduled to hit HBO Max this Week are below.
The Staircase
Creator: Antonio Campos
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Cast: Colin Firth, Toni Collette, Michael Stuhlbarg, Dane DeHaan, Olivia DeJonge, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sophie Turner
Synopsis: Tells the story of Michael Peterson, a crime novelist accused of killing his wife Kathleen after she is found dead at the bottom of a staircase in their home, and the 16-year judicial battle that followed.
Game of Thrones
Creator: David Benioff, D.B. Weiss
Genre: Action,Adventure,Drama,Fantasy
Cast: Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington, Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams
Synopsis: Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night’s Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.
Tokyo Vice
Creators:
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Cast: Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe, Rinko Kikuchi, Rachel Keller, Ella Rumpf, Hideaki Ito, Sho Kasamatsu
Synopsis: A first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption. Based on Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction book of the same name.
Friends
Creator: David Crane, Marta Kauffman
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Cast: Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow
Synopsis: Ross Geller, Rachel Green, Monica Geller, Joey Tribbiani, Chandler Bing, and Phoebe Buffay are six twenty-somethings living in New York City. Over the course of 10 years and seasons, these friends go through life lessons, family, love, drama, friendship, and comedy.
The Big Bang Theory
Creators: Mark Cendrowski
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Cast: Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg, Kunal Nayyar, Melissa Rauch, Mayim Bialik
Synopsis: The Big Bang Theory is centered on five characters living in Pasadena, California: roommates Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper; Penny, a waitress and aspiring actress who lives across the hall; and Leonard and Sheldon’s equally geeky and socially awkward friends and co-workers, mechanical engineer Howard Wolowitz and astrophysicist Raj Koothrappali. The geekiness and intellect of the four guys is contrasted for comic effect with Penny’s social skills and common sense.
Las Bravas F.C.
Creator: Flippy
Genre: Sport
Cast: Mauricio Ochmann, Ana Valeria Becerril, José Sefami, Mauricio Barrientos, Irán Castillo
Synopsis: A former soccer player who was once the best in the world becomes the new coach of his town’s women’s soccer team and promises to make them champions in order to avoid going to jail.
You Knock on My Door
Creators: Ender Mihlar
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Cast: Hande Erçel, Kerem Bürsin, Bige Önal, Çagri Çitanak, Neslihan Yeldan, Alican Aytekin, Başak Gümülcinelioglu
Synopsis: Connecting all her hopes in her life to her education, Eda comes face to face with Serkan Bolat, who unknowingly cuts her scholarship abroad and caused her to remain a high school graduate. Serkan Bolat offers to give Eda her scholarship back if she pretends to be engaged to him for two months. Eda first rejects the offer due to her hatred for him, but when circumstances change, she has no choice but to accept the offer. While pretending to be engaged, Serkan and Eda begin to have a passionate, challenging relationship that will make you forget all they know right, because love is hard. And that’s why it’s amazing!!
The Thaw
Creators: Xawery Żuławski
Genres: Crime,Drama,Mystery
Cast: Marcelina Stepkowska, Piotr Żurawski, Sebastian Fabijański, Bartłomiej Kotschedoff, Cezary Łukaszewicz, Katarzyna Wajda
Synopsis: The body of a young woman is discovered in the icy water of the Oder River. The investigation into the case is led by Katarzyna Zawieja, a young police officer who never gives up easily. It soon becomes evident that the investigation goes beyond the murder as the woman gave birth shortly before her death. But where is the baby? For Katarzyna, the search for the newborn baby means she must confront her own circumstances: a woman in crisis after the death of her husband. The fight to find the baby will become a fight to find herself.
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
Creators:Max Borenstein, Jim Hecht
Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport
Cast: John C. Reilly, Quincy Isaiah, Jason Clarke, Gaby Hoffmann, Hadley Robinson, Sally Field, DeVaughn Nixon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqbWwKx1nBU
Synopsis: A fast-break series chronicling the professional and personal lives of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers, one of the sports’ most revered and dominant dynasties — a team that defined an era, both on and off the court.
The Flight Attendant
Creator: Ella Lemhagen
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Cast: Kaley Cuoco, Michiel Huisman, Colin Woodell, Michelle Gomez, Zosia Mamet, Merle Dandridge, Griffin Matthews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP_WC5oOCe8
Synopsis: Flight attendant Cassandra Bowden wakes in her hotel room in Bangkok, hungover from the night before and with a dead body lying next to her. Afraid to call the police, she continues her morning as if nothing happened, joining the other flight attendants and pilots traveling to the airport. In New York, she is met by FBI agents who question her about her recent layover in Bangkok. Still unable to piece the night together, she wonders if she could be the killer.
