So for some reason HBO Now just sucks at my place. I have literally zero issues streaming video from anywhere else online that I go to (other streaming sites, news sites, YouTube, shadier places of questionable legality etc.) and yet despite trying 4 browsers, clearing all sorts of useless things on my laptop, and triple checking my Internet connection and speeds, HBO Now will stutter/buffer ever 2-3 seconds. There is no option to change the streaming quality either so I am stuck with the buffering. Even watching The Righteous Gemstones yesterday at noon, it was buffering. I don't know why I pay $15/mo for HBO Now when I can't even watch the content. This only started a month or so ago, so it has to be on HBO's end. All that to say I didn't get to watch the episode last night and only just now finished it at my work computer, which had not even a half-second of lag for the entire episode. Same ISP and everything, and I tend to have more problems with the Internet over here than at home. So, technology confuses me.
*exhale*
Episode 2 rocked. I loved watching Maeve this episode, and she's not a character I care much about. It was really interesting to see the visual distortions of The Forge like they're in some kind of Matrix-style simulation. Stubbs' acting as a critically damaged host impressed me, like when I was watching Bernard have his episodes in season 2. But what a dark, grim picture it paints of Delos in the aftermath of season 2. Wow.
Didn't catch the preview for episode 3 but I imagine we'll be back to Caleb and Dolores.