High Maintenance - Very good web-series. Discuss.

shit geiger was a little intense

ASMR ref was hilarious

glad to see the reappearance of that uberman guy from qasim, lol

geiger and genghis both kinda left me a little unsatisfied tbh

ruth was A+ though, that synth rendition of claire de lune was so fucking perfect, it made me tear up (nb: for a second i thought it was tomita's)

agreed re: both geiger and genghis. also naive white dude teaching in tough urban school is a genre that i don't need much more of. feel like a few lines seemed pulled directly from s4 of the wire

ruth was great though

the throwback closing credits for genghis were both eye-rollingly cheesy and deeply satisfying imo

ugh should i pay $8 for this idk if i want to but i want to see them

up to you, homie

fyi vimeo seems to be having a hard time getting their shit together, but from what i can gather (mostly from sinclair furiously posting in the vimeo comments section and on twitter), the next three episodes wont be out till january or february, also the "one year rental" is actually a "lifetime rental"

stevie to be totally honest when i wrote this:

glad i sprung for this though, these are good and the creators seem like good folks

― marcos, Thursday, November 20, 2014 12:12 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it was after watching ruth which was really good but i didn't really feel like any of them had the repeat-watching value that the others did.

maybe i feel differently about them now that i paid for them? like i expected them to be better? when i never heard of the show until gr8080 told me about them i had 13 free episodes to watch all at once, it didn't matter that some of them didn't live up to the others. e.g. in retrospect i think the hannibal burress one was one of the worst but i knew i had a bunch more to watch so it lessened the blow of a bad episode

also i think my favorite eps have a lot of ben sinclair in them, he is super likeable and it's fun to see him interact with the other characters

i'm choosing to look at my $8 as a kickstarter/NPR fund-drive type of thing instead of an itues/amazon type of transaction

wise

i guess. given the modern media landscape it's a really bad value proposition for everybody concerned.

agreed, very interested in seeing how it plays out

I mean i'ts $8 for what, 30 or 40 minutes of footage? Obv that is a gross overreduction of the time and effort and etc and all of that but still, that's what the actual exchange is.

wait the $8 is for all 6 right? b/c the first 3 total almost 50 minutes together

$8 for all 6 yes

okay so it's more like $8 for 90 minutes of footage

wonder if they are just gonna make them free after a year or something

Hm maybe I don't understand Internet media economics (probably true) but I paid $4 for a latte today and it gave me less pleasure than one ep of this show, so my own personal math (dubious but it's mine) says $8 is a steal

hey that's a great point

there is full frontal male nudity in one of the three new ones

I've just watched the first 13 episodes (all except the three new ones), and man, this show is great. First two "seasons" were amusing and well-observed, but there's an incredible poignancy to some of the later episodes that takes the show to another level. "Rachel" kind of destroyed me.

genghis is a great ep btw, you guys are crazy

it may play of a cliche subject but it does it in a totally fresh & very real way

i would rank

genghis > ruth > geiger

i thought geiger was kind of funny but im not sure the end delivered on the build-up

ruth > ghengis > geiger for me. Geiger wasn't just heavy, it was a bit wooden too.

feel like a major strength of this show is its very real and human characters and the main dude in geiger was definitely very wooden. was more of a bland caricature than anybody else on this show so far

also d-40 what was fresh about the way genghis dealt with the school setting? i mean "take out your pencils" "i don't have a pencil" or "i need to go to the bathroom" "you just went to the bathroom" or "are you gay or something" or "okay latisha" "WHAT my name is KEISHA" are literally lines that are said in all these fucking tough classroom scenes!

Those are things that happen in every high school classroom

The main difference is I've never seen someone claim to be a proud asexual in that context and then fail to bond with the students

The end of it is completely different

god the people in "dinah" are so chicago. i feel like i worked with the annoying poofy haired dude at a call center.

i felt sort of convicted by that dude at a few points :-/

Lmao

oh yea the dinah episode struck me as very very really, i know all those folks

and just the way the polyamorous girl said "that's TOTALLY valid" in response to a question about polyamory was just really perfect

finishing up watching all of them, plus watching the new ones

didn't realize how many episodes asexual dude is in!

sorry, I mean the asexual magician

mh what did you think about the new ones

Geiger reminded me of the Qasim one, only instead of it having a goofy reveal about one man's bizarre mission to organize his life it was just depressing. I was seriously getting anxious watching it, not because I'm afraid I'm not prepped for a doomsday, but because dude just seemed really consumed.

asexual magician seems like a cool guy, but the episode just made me feel for all my friends in teaching. I think his appearance on the seder episode is still my fave

Ruth is awesome and The Guy as matchmaker was kind of a stretch but seeing two really likeable characters find some measure of happiness made my day brighter.

i frequently ask myself the question "how much would i pay for a really sweet dreamcatcher?"

from the title fade-in of geiger to 6min mark is prob better than this entire new michael mann hacker movie

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, November 11, 2014 12:45 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i was so prescient

new episodes go up at midnight EST/9pm PST tonight

alright, i splurged.

pricing model still ridiculous but two episodes in and it's SO GOOD.
love the s1 character callbacks

need to see the new ones today!

i agree that vimeo's experient might not be the best but if you think of $8 as entry fee to all 19 episodes its a bargain at $0.42 per episode

i fell asleep before 11pm last nite-- def watching the new ones tonite

same