I’m not kidding when I say I haven’t even thought about planning to watch a TV show since Babylon 5 concluded in 1998.

I don’t say this to be an anti-TV snob — we watch broadcast TV and plenty of DVDs, and I got kind of hooked on websites devoted to Lost (even though I never saw an episode).

Is it possible to buy individual episodes of HBO shows? Does the HBO iPad app let you actually watch shows? Obviously I need to do some research.