Netflix must be really laughing right now, as everyone trying to watch the season finale of True Detective complain about HBO GO not being available. HBO GO has crashed—it’s been deader than Rust Cohle’s soul for the last three hours. I’ve tried it at least two dozen times—both through my computer and Apple TV—and it hangs every single time. In fact, most of the times I couldn’t even access the service’s home screen. We all know that HBO GO’s reliability track record is pretty pathetic to start with, so maybe we shouldn’t be surprised. However, they should have imagined that the widespread interest for True Detective would cause a demand surge for the finale and could have done something to avoid the disaster. This dramatically contrasts with Netflix’s success in surviving the House of Cards season 2 tsunami, when a gazillion billion users hit the online video provider at the same time demanding their fix for not one but 13 new episodes of Frank Underwood’s evil doings.