chad is such a great fuckin character, too real, all these people are too real
― marcos, Friday, 6 February 2015 20:31 (nine years ago) link
esme was good but orly was a little over the top imo though
Sufjan, Esme and Sabrina - back to previous heights.
Ruth, Geiger, Genghis had me worried (especially Genghis).
― the gabhal cabal (Bob Six), Thursday, February 5, 2015 5:01 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yea otm, ruth was pretty good but yea the first three of s2 had me a little worried too. geiger was really bad
― marcos, Friday, 6 February 2015 20:33 (nine years ago) link
i didn't think geiger was bad, but it was in the same style as qasim, which is an outlier from the general tone that isn't as enjoyable to me
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 6 February 2015 20:47 (nine years ago) link
yeah but where Qasim slowly spun a beautifully complex riddle, holding out on the (hilarious and horrifying) answer until the bitter end, Geiger just kind of plopped down a hacky premise at the top and kicked it around until it abruptly ran out of steam
nb i watched Geiger again and i like it now, its just def in my lower-tier HM episodes
― gr8080, Friday, 6 February 2015 21:02 (nine years ago) link
wkiw shroom dealer that's friends with the weed dealer guy
― marcos, Friday, 6 February 2015 22:20 (nine years ago) link
one for fun two for woo
― johnny crunch, Friday, 6 February 2015 22:25 (nine years ago) link
mushroom dealer's australian accent was confusing because it was somehow similar to her long island accent in orange is the new black.
― mizzell, Friday, 6 February 2015 22:33 (nine years ago) link
man i want some shrooms, that would be a good time. probably been 15 years since i last did shrooms
― marcos, Friday, 6 February 2015 22:34 (nine years ago) link
three for wheeeeeeee
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 February 2015 22:44 (nine years ago) link
i love how the first time* the show ventures in to actual drug humor its shrooms and not weed
*maybe with a few exceptions now that i think about it, ruth's freakout in bradd pitts
― gr8080, Friday, 6 February 2015 22:57 (nine years ago) link
somebody forgot the magical box
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 February 2015 22:58 (nine years ago) link
ruth's freakout in bradd pitts
― gr8080, Friday, 6 February 2015 23:03 (nine years ago) link
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 February 2015 23:21 (nine years ago) link
― gr8080, Friday, 6 February 2015 23:31 (nine years ago) link
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 February 2015 23:54 (nine years ago) link
forks are you high
― gr8080, Saturday, 7 February 2015 00:07 (nine years ago) link
Just started watching this. Not a smoker, never been a smoker, but this works brilliantly as both parody and propaganda, so thumbs up.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 7 February 2015 14:31 (nine years ago) link
loved these
lake house episode a little too close to comfort for me i think
the extended universe they're creating is so great
― max, Saturday, 7 February 2015 16:47 (nine years ago) link
Haven't watched the second season yet but wanted to pop in and say me and stevie D got high and watched all of season 1 in one go =0
― 龜, Saturday, 7 February 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link
Ditmas park episode was waaaaaaaay too close to home. Literally, badumdum
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 7 February 2015 17:09 (nine years ago) link
co-sign
― gr8080, Saturday, 7 February 2015 17:10 (nine years ago) link
not totally surprised that most of chad's friends are just as obnoxious as he is
― marcos, Saturday, 7 February 2015 17:46 (nine years ago) link
kabir seems all right though
― marcos, Saturday, 7 February 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link
also lol does anyone smoke as much weed in the whole series as the couple in sufjan? they are doing bong rips and passing joints nonstop
― marcos, Saturday, 7 February 2015 17:52 (nine years ago) link
basically two of the most comfortable people who have ever existed
― gr8080, Saturday, 7 February 2015 17:54 (nine years ago) link
lol yes
― marcos, Saturday, 7 February 2015 17:54 (nine years ago) link
lol i am just now recalling that when i was telling friends abt a portugal trip i was planing last year, one gave me the contact info for her friend's intentional community and said i should pay them a visit.
― gr8080, Saturday, 7 February 2015 17:59 (nine years ago) link
stevie d how come you never get ME high
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 8 February 2015 05:33 (nine years ago) link
positive vibes!
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/highmaintenance/117634114
― gr8080, Thursday, 12 February 2015 15:03 (nine years ago) link
i've recommended this series to about 10 diff buddies irl now and i don't think a single one has gone to watch them, wtf is wrong w/ ppl
― dudem, (clouds), Sunday, 29 March 2015 19:45 (nine years ago) link
$8
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 29 March 2015 20:19 (nine years ago) link
Correct way to do it is smoke em up and binge
― mh, Monday, 30 March 2015 01:24 (nine years ago) link
tru
― dudem, (clouds), Monday, 30 March 2015 05:09 (nine years ago) link
Moving to HBO!http://deadline.com/2015/04/high-maintenance-series-hbo-pot-comedy-1201412884/
― jaymc, Monday, 20 April 2015 16:48 (nine years ago) link
Thought that was esp. interesting in light of these recent remarks:
The fact is, their marriage is tied up in a risky experiment. High Maintenance is one of Vimeo's bestselling titles. But Blichfeld and Sinclair say there's a huge disparity between the number of people who paid for the new episodes and the number who have watched them for free."I had expectations," Sinclair admits, running his fingers through his beard. "I couldn't help but to. And I'm a little like, whaa? It does seem like the paywall is an issue.""I mean, it doesn't 'seem,' " Blichfeld interjects. "The paywall is an issue." With Vimeo's backing, the couple can now afford to pay their cast and crew, and they don't have to work day jobs. But they're not exactly rolling in it.
"I had expectations," Sinclair admits, running his fingers through his beard. "I couldn't help but to. And I'm a little like, whaa? It does seem like the paywall is an issue."
"I mean, it doesn't 'seem,' " Blichfeld interjects. "The paywall is an issue." With Vimeo's backing, the couple can now afford to pay their cast and crew, and they don't have to work day jobs. But they're not exactly rolling in it.
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2015/04/high_maintenance_creators_katja_blichfeld_and_ben_sinclair.php
― jaymc, Monday, 20 April 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link
can't imagine why ppl would balk at paying $8 for six short-ish episodes in the age of Spotify and Netflix and BitTorrent and all of that
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 20 April 2015 17:17 (nine years ago) link
Kind of wonder if content producers could effectively contextualize the entertainment value? Yeah, you pay $8/month for all the videos ever on Netflix, but High Maintenance is ~40 minutes of content (more?) for $8 - or the price of a fast food meal, two Starbucks coffees, roughly equivalent with drinks and snacks to what you'd pay to see a movie, etc..
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 20 April 2015 17:21 (nine years ago) link
I actually paid for the episodes but as a result, my credit card was frozen because of the 'suspicious' nature of small random payments.
― tayto fan (Michael B), Monday, 20 April 2015 17:33 (nine years ago) link
xp I mean when you break it down like that, it is a v fair exchange imo -- but it's a departure from what ppl are used to paying for content these days, I think.
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 20 April 2015 17:38 (nine years ago) link
this is good news, a better value proposition, broader audiences and (hopefully) bigger budgets and longer eps.
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 April 2015 19:41 (nine years ago) link
idk i really, really love short episodes; i think more shows should do it, it's like these tiny little morsels
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 20 April 2015 19:58 (nine years ago) link
tiny morsels are nice sometimes
Tiny little nugs
― 龜, Monday, 20 April 2015 19:58 (nine years ago) link
yeah, i agree. i don't want a very special hour long episode of high maintenance, or one that's really expensive to shoot for some reason. i just want a solid 10-12 minute episode that's shot mainly in one room and down the street.
― Karl Malone, Monday, 20 April 2015 20:01 (nine years ago) link
yeah, a few of those and I'm set
― mh, Monday, 20 April 2015 20:09 (nine years ago) link
i will go on record as wanting a half hour of high maintenance; i like their longer form work.
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 April 2015 20:20 (nine years ago) link
why don't you just watch 2 or 3 episodes together and pretend that the same character is just changing names and bodies but it's rly the same person in the same episode
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 20 April 2015 20:24 (nine years ago) link
*updates spreadsheet*
i don't dislike the longer episodes. it's just that i think part of the charm of the episodes so far was that you were never sure if they'd be 7 minutes long or 12 or 20. They all felt like they were as long as they needed to be. obviously the details about the HBO stuff are scarce right now but it's difficult to imagine them cranking out anything but a standard-length show.
― Karl Malone, Monday, 20 April 2015 20:26 (nine years ago) link
i just watch all of them in one sitting right now, that works well too
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 April 2015 20:29 (nine years ago) link