Rabbit season! Duck season!

You may be missing my favorite part of your HBO Max subscription.

“Eh….. What’s up, doc?”

A while back, WarnerMedia — which is now owned by AT&T — decided to compete head-on with Netflix and Disney+. HBO, which has been WarnerMedia’s flagship TV property, had previously operated two separate streaming services, HBO Go (which was usually tied to having an HBO subscription through your cable or satellite provider) and HBO Now, which could be subscribed to by anyone. The two services primarily offered on-demand streaming of programs and movies from the existing HBO library. That’s nothing to sneeze at, but it’s not quite the breadth of programming offered by Netflix or Disney+.

So last year, HBO launched HBO Max, a full-fledged streaming service including not only the HBO content but content from WarnerMedia’s other networks, such as TNT, TBS, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim and my beloved Turner Classic Movies. There’s new original content being produced directly for HBO Max, without appearing first on the cable channel. Conan O’Brien, some time later in the year, will end his nightly TBS show in favor of a weekly, hour-long show on HBO Max, and HBO Max is already the home of Conan’s acclaimed international travel episodes. (Remember international travel?)