High Maintenance - Very good web-series. Discuss.

chad is such a great fuckin character, too real, all these people are too real

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

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

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

wkiw shroom dealer that's friends with the weed dealer guy

one for fun two for woo

mushroom dealer's australian accent was confusing because it was somehow similar to her long island accent in orange is the new black.

man i want some shrooms, that would be a good time. probably been 15 years since i last did shrooms

three for wheeeeeeee

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

somebody forgot the magical box

ruth's freakout in bradd pitts

somebody forgot the magical box

ruth's freakout in bradd pitts

somebody forgot the magical box

forks are you high

Just started watching this. Not a smoker, never been a smoker, but this works brilliantly as both parody and propaganda, so thumbs up.

loved these

lake house episode a little too close to comfort for me i think

the extended universe they're creating is so great

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

Ditmas park episode was waaaaaaaay too close to home. Literally, badumdum

lake house episode a little too close to comfort for me i think

co-sign

not totally surprised that most of chad's friends are just as obnoxious as he is

kabir seems all right though

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

basically two of the most comfortable people who have ever existed

lol yes

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.

stevie d how come you never get ME high

positive vibes!

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/highmaintenance/117634114

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

$8

Correct way to do it is smoke em up and binge

tru

Moving to HBO!
http://deadline.com/2015/04/high-maintenance-series-hbo-pot-comedy-1201412884/

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.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2015/04/high_maintenance_creators_katja_blichfeld_and_ben_sinclair.php

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

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