High Maintenance - Very good web-series. Discuss.

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..

I actually paid for the episodes but as a result, my credit card was frozen because of the 'suspicious' nature of small random payments.

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.

this is good news, a better value proposition, broader audiences and (hopefully) bigger budgets and longer eps.

idk i really, really love short episodes; i think more shows should do it, it's like these tiny little morsels

tiny morsels are nice sometimes

Tiny little nugs

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.

yeah, a few of those and I'm set

i will go on record as wanting a half hour of high maintenance; i like their longer form work.

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

*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.

i just watch all of them in one sitting right now, that works well too

They could do two 15-minute "segments" within a single half hour, like Louie used to do.

Love American Style... on weed

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/20/qa-with-the-creators-of-high-maintenace/

They could do two 15-minute "segments" within a single half hour, like Louie used to do.

― jaymc, Monday, April 20, 2015 3:34 PM (2 days ago)

i hope they do this and then like one or two 30min eps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAXPY2dBq9I

I think of this a lot

basically two of the most comfortable people who have ever existed

― gr8080, Saturday, February 7, 2015 12:54 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i have many more years to go (i think) before i am visibly balding like ben sinclair but i really really like that he has a very cool-looking balding style that is not the ubiquitous shaved or buzzed head that is typically prescribed to balding dudes

that ad was embarrassing btw xp

theres a dude in my area who owns/runs a tennis shop who looks a lot like Sinclair. has a similar vibe too, not quite as idyllically warm and gregarious but hes a real dude not a character so to be expected.. ive contemplated bringing it up to him a few times, but assume once the hbo show starts he'll realize or someone else will tell him, if he doesn't already know idk

that ad was embarrassing btw xp

fwiw it's a supercut of several longer ads, still pretty embarrassing but Sinclair is the best part of each

they were shooting a scene with a psychic outside my apartment very early today

i don't think either ben or katja were in the scene but they were both watching on monitors

my fiance is out of town. i have this playing in the backround and am pretending i have roomates

apparently it costs half a month's rent to see a broadway show

i'm sorry... privates?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzSgxHd0MKo

huh

All episodes have been taken down from Vimeo for the move to HBO, damn.

no wtf

wow even the ones that they charged for, that's fucked up

the ones they charged for always had a 12 month expiry date iirc

High Maintenance premieres Friday, September 16 at 11 PM, followed by other episodes subsequent Fridays at the same time, exclusively on HBO

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All episodes have been taken down from Vimeo for the move to HBO, damn.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, July 6, 2016 11:09 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no wtf

― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, July 13, 2016 6:33 PM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow even the ones that they charged for, that's fucked up

― adam, Wednesday, July 13, 2016 7:50 PM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the ones they charged for always had a 12 month expiry date iirc

― Number None, Thursday, July 14, 2016 2:29 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea this sucks, the 12-month thing too was waved off iirc, ben said in some comment thread that that was just a technical thing w/ vimeo and there wasn't going to be an expiration

finally saw 2nd season on hbo

i liked how a lot of the eps dealt with white anxiety lol

wait the old web episodes are on HBO? nice.

starts tonight!

what's the format gonna be? how long are the episodes?

Weird that it's a Friday night show.

this is not terrible but its lost almost everything that made the webseries good

Sheesh, it was one episode! I thought the second segment was strong.

def had some laughs just like it shd be titled a diff show maybe idk

the diva blonde girl was p good

glad that it appears they're going with the jaymc/gr8080 plan:

They could do two 15-minute "segments" within a single half hour, like Louie used to do.
― jaymc, Monday, April 20, 2015 3:34 PM (2 days ago)

i hope they do this and then like one or two 30min eps

― gr8080, Wednesday, April 22, 2015 10:54 AM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

decent episode but i thought it was a weird choice to devote one half of the HBO premiere to an excruciatingly long single scene with a mildly rewarding punchline (considering HM's storytelling via artful editing is one of is greatest strengths) and the other half to a continuation of already-established characters from the web series, not to mention a meth freakout played for laughs in a show that is being marketed as one about weed

basically the total opposite of everything i'd go for in a premiere in front of a whole new audience & something i would think would play better as a 4th or 5th episode but i have faith that the remaining 5(?) eps will be good

best moment by far was Max's monologue in the support group

which was immediately ruined by the meth freakout

first ep appears to be free on hbo's website?

correct.