HBOs The Leftovers Season 2 Blu.Ray Availability Debacle in America Issue

Tldr

Never put your trust that digital media will always be available.

The following scenario is hyperbolic, arguably pretentious, and unfortunately entirely possible

Let's say, you're doom-scrolling your life away on Instagram and the algorithm knows you enjoy dramatic scenes from TV shows, specifically HBO.

Through this happenstance, you scroll past a video, with some random @ighandleforanaccountthatclipsshowsandthenputsthiswatermarkyourcurrentlyreadingforfuckssake plastered in the obvious, but tasteful, left corner of the screen with a slightly muted color.

No matter, you became interested in the clip because you see it's a scene showcasing Carrie Coon & Justin Theroux, acting as if their lives depended on it.

The shots from the show look gorgeous, the actors chemistry electric, the music gripping[1]and now your interests are fully piqued for either a first-time watching of this series[2], or revisit, cause you can't recall watching it, but you watch everything that's on HBO like everyone else interested in premium programming, so no way you missed this show when it first aired, right?

The Leftovers, one of the more esoteric, yet criminally under-watched, but undeniably now a cult-classic, released during HBO's Historic Peak TV run of producing some of the best shows of the 2000s-2010s, now you'll go to HBO MAX[3] app on your preferred streaming device and watch it from their diverse catalog of properties.

Lets say, HBO Max[4] stopped having the rights to stream their own produced show[5] - No matter, you hop onto the JustWatch app or site, and find where The Leftovers is streaming to save yourself the limited amount of time we have on this dying planet rather than flicking through the plethora streaming apps we all must subscribe to if we want to watch all the best content these platforms have to offer.

Now, in your research, you've come to find out that The Leftovers isn't available anymore, and further-more, you've checked on Amazon Prime and Apples On-Demand catalog of digital licenses they can revoke at anytime,[6] and you've come to the realization that this series isn't available digitally, anywhere.

No matter, you say, now it's time to hop onto Amazon, and purchase these seasons on blu-rays, because thankfully, your roomate has a PS5 and is able to play them.[7] - Yet you think to yourself, wow, I fucking miss Blockbuster right about now.

As your search results, leftovers seasons blueray discs, have loaded from the prompt[8] you've put into Amazons search

"okay, I remember that there is 3 seasons so I need the complete series or each season to binge the whole thing this weekend or next cause I have Amazon Prime and they offer two day but maybe this might have same-day, we'll see"

  1. Lets be honest, it would be a trending clip from Instagram that the 'creator' posts that is from a no-name 'artist' with an anime thumbnail who learned how to slow pitch a track and add reverb, knowing that this will skirt copyright claims from the litigious Big 3 record labels. ↩︎

  2. The series you had to scroll through the comments on the Reel to find the name of the show since the poster didn't post any context of where the clip is from in hopes of farming engagement with people asking what or where this is from. ↩︎

  3. As of now, they might change it at any point again. ↩︎

  4. Owned by a conglomerate of media interests by Discovery/Warners that is working through a potential sale to Netflix. We live in hell. ↩︎

  5. Happens all the time, "You" - Is a Warner Bros. Production that streams exclusively on Netflix ↩︎

  6. RTFM - Read the fucking manual - but in this case would be terms and agreements ↩︎

  7. Anecdotally, over the years I increasingly see that many people don't have a way to watch a DVD, let alone a blu-ray, and often time if they do have the device, they might not have an HDMI cord. I can think of 3 people in my life I, disturbingly, found this out about. ↩︎

  8. Hopefully not in Amazon, or any, AI Chatbot App ↩︎