HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon, premiered on Sunday night, but not everyone had a smooth experiencing watching the season premiere.
Technical issues, reportedly stemming from high demand, led to crashes and other issues with HBO Max. The website Downdetector tracked a spike in outages impacting about 3,000 accounts around the time the show premiered at 6 PM PT / 9 PM ET on Sunday, August 21.
A spokesperson for HBO told The Hollywood Reporter that the issues involved people trying to connect to HBO Max via Amazon’s Fire TV devices.