HBO Max releases all three episodes of The Flores Massacre on Thursday, October 22, in the United States and Australia. The sources don't give a specific start time, just the release date, so the whole series should land whenever HBO Max typically refreshes its library that day.
The docuseries tells the story of Matias Bagnato, the only person who survived a 1994 arson fire that killed his entire family at their home in Buenos Aires. The three episodes dig into what happened that night and trace the fire back to Fructuoso Álvarez González, a former business partner of Bagnato's father who went to prison for the attack, got out, and then kept coming after the one survivor he hadn't managed to kill the first time.
Where to watch
Country | Channel or service | Free or paid ---|---|--- United States | HBO Max | Paid (free trial available via YouTube TV) Australia | HBO Max | Paid, from $11.99 a month United Kingdom | No confirmed service yet | Not available Canada | No confirmed service yet | Not available
There's no UK release lined up at the moment. Given how HBO content usually moves, the series is expected to turn up eventually on Sky and NOW, though nothing is confirmed. Canada is in a similar spot. Crave typically carries HBO's catalogue there, and it's the likely eventual home for The Flores Massacre, but no date has been set. Crave's own pricing runs CA$11.99 a month or CA$119.99 a year, for anyone keeping tabs ahead of a potential arrival.
Free option
YouTube TV is the one route to watching without paying for HBO Max directly, at least in the US. New subscribers get a five-day free trial, and every YouTube TV plan lets you bolt on HBO Max as an add-on channel. Sign up inside that trial window and all three episodes of The Flores Massacre are watchable at no cost, as long as you cancel before the trial runs out if you don't want to keep paying afterward.
What to expect
The three-part structure suggests a fairly tight telling of events rather than a sprawling investigation. Expect the first episode to lay out the fire itself and Bagnato's survival, with the later episodes following González's prison term, release, and the extortion and threats that reportedly followed. It's the kind of true crime story built around one survivor's account of a crime most of his family didn't live to describe, which tends to make for a more personal, less procedural kind of documentary than the genre's courtroom-heavy entries.
For now, the US and Australian premieres on October 22 are the only confirmed dates. Viewers in the UK and Canada will need to wait for HBO Max's usual pattern of international rollout to catch up, with Sky, NOW and Crave the most likely eventual destinations based on how the network has handled similar true crime releases in the past.
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