So you get all HBO plus other stuff? If you have spectrum what do you miss if you have Max?
I don't know about Spectrum, but if you have access to HBO Go through them (as most people do through their cable providers), then you may already have access to HBO Max. I'd check on that first. Just download the app and see if you can log into Max with your HBO Go credentials.
HBO Max has all the HBO movies/shows, plus original shows that won't be on regular HBO including imports from DCU like
Doom Patrol and
Harley Quinn (both great, imo). Other HBO Max originals right now include
Love Life with Anna Kendrick, the comedy
Search Party with Alia Shawkat,
Adventure Time: Distant Lands, an Elmo "Late Nite" show and new
Looney Tunes cartoons for the kids, and upcoming shows include: a big-budget
Green Lantern series, a
Dune series from the same team that's making the movie, a sci-fi show from Ridley Scott called
Raised by Wolves, a crime drama called
Tokyo Vice, a post-apocalyptic show called
Station Eleven, a DC superhero/sci-fi anthology show called
Strange Adventures (as in Adam Strange), a
Justice League Dark show from JJ Abrams, and a
Gotham Central-esque series that's a spin-off of
The Batman from Matt Reeves and Terrence Winter. There are several others too that I can't be bothered with, lol.
Here's a list. Of course the dreaded Snyder Cut is in there too next year.
But the main appeal of HBO Max for me right now is their library. TCM and Criterion have a whole section of classics there that is just
glorious. And of course there's a DC hub for various DC movies and TV shows. Cartoon Network/Adult Swim have their own section of shows, as does Studio Ghibli and Crunchroll for anime movies and shows, and of course they have a lot of popular old (mostly Warner Bros, BBC and Turner) TV shows that you can't get on regular HBO, like
Friends, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The Big Bang Theory, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Pride & Prejudice (BBC mini-series)
, Emma (BBC mini-series),
The OC, The Flintstones, South Park, The Office (UK),
The Thick of It, Whitechapel, The Closer, Major Crimes, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Looney Tunes, Popeye, Johnny Quest, The Jetsons and a bunch of other Hanna-Barbera cartoons
, and some of the newer CW shows that don't fall under their Netflix deal (so like
Batwoman, Nancy Drew, Katy Keene, etc).