What Action & Adventure Shows to watch on HBO Max
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Samurai Jack
Highly stylized cartoon about a great warrior who has been hurled into the future by an evil shape-shifting wizard called Aku and is trying to find a portal that will lead back to his own time.
Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal
A tale of a caveman at the dawn of evolution as he forms an unlikely friendship with an almost extinct dinosaur.
Rick and Morty
Mad scientist Rick Sanchez moves in with his daughter's family after disappearing for 20 years and involves them in his wacky adventures in this animated comedy.
Band of Brothers
A 10-part miniseries based on Stephen Ambrose's bestseller about a World War II unit called Easy Company, 2nd Battalion of the 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army, that begins with their training in Georgia in the spring of 1942, follows them into France on D-Day and ends with the Allied victory in Europe in 1945.
The Pacific
The Pacific is a miniseries based on the battle that took place in the Pacific Ocean; it was the first Marine Division's Battle. It narrates and depicts the war, through the eyes of young serving Marines, that took place between Japan and America. Loosely based on the works based on "With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa" and "Helmet for My Pillow".
Game of Thrones
An adaptation of author George RR Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" medieval fantasies about power struggles among the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros.
Watchmen
Banned from using their powers in a parallel Earth, a group of heroes work together to defend themselves, until one member meets their fate.
Pushing Daisies
A man with the ability to bring the dead back to life uses his power to solve murder cases and to reconnect with his deceased childhood sweetheart.
Harley Quinn
Follow Harley's adventures after she breaks up with the Joker and strikes out on her own. With the help of Poison Ivy and a ragtag crew of DC castoffs, Harley tries to earn a seat at the biggest table in villainy: the Legion of the Doom.
Adventure Time
The exploits of a boy and his magical dog are chronicled in this cartoon set in the surreal Land of Ooo.
Adventure Time: Distant Lands
The Adventure Time pals team up on a series of intergalactic journeys with unexpected twists.
From the Earth to the Moon
Tom Hanks was executive producer for this Emmy-winning 12-part drama on the U.S. space program. Spanning 1961 to '72, the series has all the right stuff---impressive scripts, elaborate special effects and solid performances by a large cast. Part 1 (which Hanks also directed) melds those elements into re-creations of two major missions: the exhilarating 1965 spacewalk by Ed White, and a 1966 flight that tested the skill and courage of Neil Armstrong.
Ms. Marvel
Kamala Khan is a 16-year-old Pakistani-American growing up in Jersey City. A great student, an avid gamer and a voracious fan-fiction scribe, she has a special affinity for superheroes, particularly Captain Marvel. But Kamala struggles to fit in at home and at school—that is, until she gets super powers like the heroes she’s always looked up to. Life is easier with super powers, right?
Doctor Who
Following the adventures of a time-traveling alien called "The Doctor" and his human companions as they deal with crises set on Earth and other worlds.
Chuck
A computer nerd is drawn into shadowy global espionage when subliminal government secrets are downloaded into his brain.
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
A sleek, sexy, Emmy-nominated 1990s take on the enduring superhero, culled from DC Comics, which has spawned numerous successful film and TV versions of him as boy and man. All of which further demonstrated that while Kryptonite can kill the Man of Steel, changing times can't. Here, leads Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher have the looks and the chemistry, and the timeless question (seriously, how can Lois NOT know Clark is Superman?) plays itself out until they find true love.
Naomi
The DC drama NAOMI follows the journey of a cool, confident, comic book–loving teenager as she pursues her hidden destiny.
Doom Patrol
The adventures of an idealistic mad scientist and his field team of superpowered outcasts.
Peacemaker
Peacemaker will explore the origins of the character that John Cena first portrayed in James Gunn's 2021 film, “The Suicide Squad” – a compellingly vainglorious man who believes in peace at any cost, no matter how many people he has to kill to get it.
The Third Day
Limited series about a mysterious island off the British coast where fantasy and reality converge.
Rome
The Roman Empire's rise gets a royal treatment in this sprawling drama, which begins in 52 B.C., when Julius Caesar finally conquers Gaul, after years of war. Back in Rome, however, the Senate seeks to undermine Caesar's power, setting the stage for inevitable civil war. The HBO-BBC co-production took more than a year to make on acres of sets at Italy's legendary Cinecitta studios.
His Dark Materials
An adaptation of Philip Pullman's acclaimed trilogy that follows a seemingly ordinary but brave young woman from another world whose search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and becomes a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust.
Warrior
A martial-arts prodigy from China works for a San Francisco crime gang in the second half of the 19th century.
Banshee
An ex-con assumes the identity of the sheriff of a small, out-of-the-way Pennsylvania town, where he continues his criminal ways while trying to keep off the radar of ruthless mobsters he double-crossed years before.