'House of the Dragon' Crashes Streaming Platform on Premiere Night, HBO Reacts

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, HBO's highly anticipated prequel, finally hit the small screen on Sunday night — but some fans were sorely disappointed. While response to the series has been largely positive overall, an HBO Max streaming crash on premiere night left many unable to watch.

was successfully viewed by millions of HBO Max subscribers last night," HBO said in a statement addressing the Sunday night crash. «A small portion of users attempting to connect via Fire TV devices had issues and we worked directly with impacted users to get them into the platform.»Impacted viewers were, however, able to screena jam-packed promo for the cable network touting its impressive upcoming slate of programming, including and more.

imagine literally paying for hbo max just for it to crash as soon has hotd comes out my dad is on the verge of a breakdownHBO Max trying not to crash pic.twitter.com/9ZdxOhCX18People trying to watch #HouseoftheDragon only for HBO MAX to crash pic.twitter.com/GT7DjOZ89OAmong those who were able to screen in real time, one New York City apartment building was captured on camera as several units could be seen enjoying the show at the same time.

See the moment below. Big #HouseoftheDragon night in New York City apartments @HBOpic.twitter.com/xINets7U65 brings to life George R.R.