Determining when you’ve finished an episode of a series, and then displaying the next episode in your “continue watching” should be Streaming Services 101… and yet Peacock and MAX just can’t seem to handle this simple concept. You have to literally start the next episode and then exit out, otherwise the end of episode you just watched will be what appears in the “continue watching” section the next time you log in. Why these two services can’t figure out that if you’ve reached the credits, that means you’ve completed the episode, is beyond me.
And MAX takes it one step further by placing you at the end of the episode you just started watching, thus confusing you further and making you question where you really left off. This happens even after turning off auto play! I’ll let it finish the episode and take me back to the series page, and yet the already watched episode is forced upon me next time. Whhhyyyy? This is such a simple programming fix!
Apple gets it. Hulu gets it. Netflix gets it. Why can’t these two streaming piles of you know what fail at something so spectacularly simple, and why aren’t more people complaining?
I started using Just Watch (an app and online service) just to track my place in series because of this nonsense.
In addition, if it’s a TV series I can borrow from the library, I’ve started doing that vs watching it on MAX because it’s just too infuriating. We had unknowingly skipped episodes of the shows we were watching on that service because of how stupidly it operates. And if you check Reddit, people have been complaining about this for years and yet nothing has been done to rectify it.