MAX Characters You Can Be For Halloween

Welcome back to a semi-regular feature here at Book and Film Globe. For those new to it, we give you a quick how-to guide so you can dress like your favorite HBO (now Max) characters. Relevant pop culture Halloween costumes are fun, but most attempts are too broad. Sure, you could pretty easily pull off a Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift couples costume that will get a lot of love. It’s extremely timely. A few months ago everyone was talking about how many Barbie and Ken costumes we’d have. Don’t be Barbie or Ken. That wave has ended. Alan would be funny. Sexy Oppenheimer would be funny. There’s no version of Ken you can dress up as that won’t leave you going home alone to your Mojo Dojo Casa House at the end of a Halloween party.

Let’s focus on costumes based on HBO/Max shows. In the 2019 edition of this, we showed you how to dress up like Noho Hank from Barry, rapping Kendall Roy from Succession, and Kelvin Gemstone from The Righteous Gemstones. Last year we added Armond from The White Lotus, Nathan Fielder from The Rehearsal, Princess Rhaenyra from House of the Dragon, Cassie from Euphoria, and Mr. Big from And Just Like That.

I’d argue that all of the previous year costumes are still workable, if a tad dated, so let’s update with a few new ones from the most recent seasons of these Max shows.

Tanya from The White Lotus

Tanya is a style icon, if only in her own mind. One of the only returning characters from season one, she is still trying to find joy in Italy. Spoiler alert: It didn’t work out. But in this outfit she attempted to have her Monica Vitti moment, and whether it was received that way or not, she was feeling herself. Hopefully if you attempt this costume, you won’t get mislabeled as “Peppa Pig” like Tonya did. And the gays won’t try to kill you. To make this costume really shine, roll up in a vespa.

Costume essentials:

Pink headscarf: $16

Pink Dress with pattern: $32

Oversized sunglasses and silver heels: Check your closet.

Bonus: To make this a couples costume, find yourself a Portia. Whatever mis-matched outfit they want to wear, topped with a knit bucket hat, will get the point across.

Roman Roy from Succession

To actually dress like most Succession characters, you’d need an obscene amount of money. That’s what makes this Roman outfit so funny. He fled after getting beat-up in the streets of NYC, so this was seemingly all he had to wear at his mom’s house. All you really need is the shirt. Style your hair like him, put on a couple band-aids over your eye, grab some peach shorts, sunglasses and a couple bracelets and you’ve got the look.

Costume essential:  The shirt: $28

Cary and Brooke Dubek from The Other Two

Without meaning to, the brother and sister titular stars of The Other Two ended up wearing the same outfit to a premiere. A bright blue suit with no undershirt. It’s an easy look to re-create and you have options to pull it off for free. If you want to go the easy, knock-off route get the “try before you buy” option on this royal-blue version on Amazon. If you want the real deal so you can look like unhinged egomaniacs Cary and Brooke themselves, I found the actual jacket and you get free shipping and 30-day returns!

Costume essential: The suit: $130 (free returns)

Miranda Hobbes from And Just Like That

Miranda was really on one this season. She continued to explore her sexuality with Che and, to the horror of her sex-columnist best friend Carrie, wore a strap-on dildo. It’s nowhere near the most cringey thing she did this season. There’s a strong nomination for answering a FaceTime call from her son during Che’s TV show taping, ruining a dramatic take, but I think the answer, which is essential for your costume is this. In an effort to remind herself who she is, she gets a tattoo. Of her own initials (MH) on her wrist. You can just write this in with pen or sharpie. Wear the bra/undie combo of your choosing. Bonus for this costume is you get a sex toy when it’s all said and done.

Costume essentials:

Red wig: $23

Strap-on: $20

I personally dressed up as Kendall Roy and Mr. Big in the previous years when I made these lists, but this year, as a brand-new dad I’ll be in a Tigger costume to match my wife’s Piglet and my son’s Winnie the Pooh. Dress up in a hip Max costume in my honor.