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If you were hoping to spend Sunday night watching Big Little Lies or Euphoria, it’s possible that you received a distressing message from HBO: Error Code 203. Last night, thousands of HBO Go users (including me) were left stranded after the service crashed, leaving nothing but an HBO service code reading “Error 203” in its wake. HBO Go attempted to resolve the issue in a timely fashion, but fans weren’t happy about the service interruption during HBO’s flagship night of programing. As one user wrote on Twitter, “HBO Go is down… nothing has broken me like this.”
HBO Go’s latest malfunction was sneakier than most. Users were able to access individual shows and episodes through the app, and even click into them normally. For a few seconds — at least on my end — everything seemed normal: the HBO logo appeared, followed by the episode’s ratings information and then the usual fade to black. However, a message then appeared telling users that HBO Go couldn’t play the video due to a 203 error. At that point, I slammed the home button and tried again, but the same message appeared. Naturally, I immediately checked Twitter to see if other people were having the same issue.
The answer is yes: thousands of people were tweeting about HBO Go being down during Big Little Lies and Euphoria. “HBO Go is down and I’m not sure that I know how to function anymore,” wrote one user. “When HBO Go is down on a Sunday night,” said a fan alongside a pic of Meryl Streep’s now-famous BLL scream. “Waited all day to watch Euphoria just for HBO Go to be down right now,” wrote another.
While the HBO Go issues may have ruined your Sunday night plans — again, I empathize — but it seems to be back to normal now. “Our team has resolved access issues,” the service’s Help account tweeted just before 2 a.m. ET.
Only eight more hours of avoiding Big Little Lies and Euphoria spoilers and we’re in the clear, folks. May the odds be ever in our favor.
