HBOmax Streaming issues

When I’m streaming HBOmax on my Apple TV, the video will pause for a moment then continue, or the image will freeze but audio will continue, or both video and audio freeze and a loading wheel spins forever.

I’ve been tailing the Pi-hole and checking the queries from my Apple TV‘s IP address and nothing is being blocked, but there are a lot of queries being cached.

Is it possible that the queries that are being cached are somehow causing these issues? I have gigabit internet and everything is hardwired so shouldn’t be any problems there.