Max Is Borrowing an Old Netflix Trick to Compile Its Top 10 Lists

Max, formerly known as HBO Max, has rolled out its first Top 10 lists in an effort to increase engagement with its best films and series.Atop the inaugural podium for series are “Hard Knocks” (NFL training camp with the New York Jets), “And Just Like That…,” and “Winning Time,” a series about the Los Angeles Lakers of the ’80s.Leading movies are DC disappointment “The Flash,” Bishop Sycamore high-school football documentary “Bs High,” and 2015 Will Ferrell/Kevin Hart prison comedy “Get Hard.”It measures only those series that released a new episode on the platform within the last six weeks period and movies that debuted within the last eight weeks.

Those are the windows when hits usually happen; you’ll see movies a heck of a lot older then “Get Hard” on Max’s top 10.

Linear tune-in via HBO or the Discovery cable channels does not count toward Max’s Top 10.However,…

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