The highly anticipated Euphoria season 2 finale temporarily crashed its streaming service, HBO Max, on Sunday night. Since returning for season 2 last month, the HBO series has captivated audiences and sent Twitter buzzing about several new storylines, relationships, love triangles, and overall drama. Euphoria hails from the mind of Sam Levinson, son of the Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson, and stars a ensemble cast led by the Emmy-winner Zendaya and new sensations such as Maude Apatow, Angus Cloud, Alexa Demie, Jacob Elordi, Barbie Ferreira, Hunter Schafer, and Sydney Sweeney.

In 2019, Euphoria began by airing weekly episodes Sunday nights on HBO, a highly-coveted time slot for the network. Because the COVID-19 pandemic elongated the layoff between seasons, Euphoria produced two special episodes with limited cast and crew, which were aired two days early on the newly launched streaming service HBO Max. When Euphoria finally returned for season 2, episodes premiered in primetime on the network and were simultaneously available to stream on the service. The weekly release format has wholly benefited a deep, dense drama like Euphoria, allowing viewers time to properly digest and discuss each episode on a week-to-week basis.

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Now, it appears that Euphoria‘s season 2 finale crashed the streaming service ahead of its premiere on Sunday night, according to Variety. HBO Max was briefly unavailable for many users moments before the episode was scheduled to go live, with reports of user problems spiking just five minutes before airtime, according to the website DownDetector. The interruption in service ended up being quite brief, as all issues were resolved within a half hour of initial reports.

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At first glance, the server crash is a testament to the popularity of Euphoria, which was recently revealed to be the most-tweeted-about show of the decade so far. But this isn’t the first time the streaming service has had technical difficulties that briefly derailed an anticipated event. Last May, Mare of Easttown‘s season 1 finale caused HBO Max’s servers to crash, as well.

While HBO Max is a relatively new streaming service and is clearly still working out some kinks, two instances of such problems makes them harder to write off. If the streamer wishes to catch up with Netflix and Disney+ in terms of subscribers, it certainly can’t continue to experience inopportune interruptions in service at pivotal points, even though the issues were resolved quickly. With shows like Euphoria and Peacemaker, HBO Max arguably has the content to compete for supremacy in the streaming wars, though it would be beneficial for the streamer to solve its server problems sooner rather than later.

Source: Variety

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