High Maintenance - Very good web-series. Discuss.

it's the same as the "everyone rates everyone" episode of black mirror! practically watched them back to back, the whole ethic of being socially performative but kind of flailing

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/sarah-larson/michael-cyril-creighton-actor-without-limits

i liked the instagram girl until she cried at the end & you realize its just making a dumb point about *kids today and their social media*

it was hilarious though when she's interviewing the Guy

surprised folks are so down on the new ones, they feel pretty of a piece w/ the original run except longer year—i guess occasional pacing issues

I love this show! Like mh says, it's heartwarming. But not in a syrupy way.

the dog episode was best imo

the finale was great

it might have been struggling to find its feet but honestly i'm willing to cut this series all kinds of slack given its one of the only shows right now that's about actual humans not sci-fi/fantasy/comic book hyperviolent gritty bullshit AND has any sort of kindness or affection for its characters instead of portraying them as vain sociopaths (transparent et all)

the first half of the finale was really wonderufl and 100% reminded me why high maintenance is one of my faovurite things ever. when it's at its best it's SO empathetic. (not slamming second half, i am only watching half 2 now)

helen hunt guy is a fave

reprisal of homeless heidi was super lame i thought but whatever

havent watched finale yet

the first half of the finale was really wonderufl and 100% reminded me why high maintenance is one of my faovurite things ever. when it's at its best it's SO empathetic. (not slamming second half, i am only watching half 2 now)

― a simba man (Will M.), Thursday, October 27, 2016 2:53 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh wow yea totally. first half was really good, honestly i teared up a little

i p much got misty the second i saw his face again and then EVERYTHING after that was just so lovely

second half was p good too

Weird that they are giving The Guy some backstory. It was well-done, but I'm not sure if I wanted any of that. It was kind of more fun to think of him as some kind of magical/spiritual being...

second half was really good

i have a big crush on rebecca naomi jones; seen her do some theater in nyc and she is really really good
also Vivian!

ive been wanting to share the older episodes with some friends but they are all gone, i can't find them anywhere. bummer man

even on HBO?

they were on hbo on demand recently (in canada)

yea all i see are the 6 hbo episodes

Still on HBO Go under 'High Maintenance Web Series'

(in the US)

just watched most of the new ones for a second time, they are actually all really good and on par with or better than a lot of the original web series imo

just listened to the two dope queens episode with ben sinclair. he is a very charming dude.

https://www.thecut.com/2018/01/profile-katja-blichfeld-of-high-maintenance.html

huh. extra curious to see these first episodes now.

Dire article.

A distateful level of celeb fawning:

“She’ll be the only one who’ll notice an extra’s socks and say ‘They’re wrong for this neighborhood,’” he says. “We’ll think that’s crazy, and then in the playback we’ll be like ‘The socks are wrong.’” With Katja, “There’s just a thing that everybody does, we kind of look to her to see if she’s smiling, or if her eyebrows are up, or if she’s attentive, or if she’s not really into it. You kind of try and read how she feels to gauge how to move forward.”

I see the same thing when we’re eating lunch a few weeks pre–tattoo date at Marlow and Sons, a restaurant where she knows everyone, of course. There’s a subtle way she wields control that makes everything about the situation perfect.

not necessarily arguing that, extra curious to see what a diversified (? at least more than just these two) writing room does for the show

Dire article.

― Luna Schlosser, Tuesday, January 16, 2018 3:12 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha yeah i found it kind of nauseating tbh

i couldn't make it through the second paragraph, about how perfectly she handled telling the tattoo artist to waive the rule about not letting anyone else behind the counter because she was going to be interviewed

Even though the shop has a rule that no one who’s not being tattooed is allowed past the reception area in front, Blichfeld convinces them to waive it for me. She does this without being a jerk but without being apologetic, either — she just listens to the explanation for the rule, making eye contact the whole time, then tells the artist why I need to hang out with her while she gets tattooed: “I’m being interviewed and this is the activity I said we’d do,” she says, un-self-consciously, like “being interviewed” and “doing an activity” are nothing to be ashamed of, which they’re not, but still. Blichfeld treats everyone she interacts with pretty much exactly the same, which is to say, she treats everyone with patience, curiosity, openness, and honesty, and then at the end of the interaction she gets exactly what she wants.

fuck everyone in this century

checking out some other stories on thecut.com. oh cool, look at this promising rectangle on the front page. i bet it's going to move up near the top of the rectangles for a while, and even after other rectangles get to the top of the mountain, it'll linger on in the 'more stories you might enjoy' section for at least a day or two longer, fantastic. equinox is a really great company, i wonder how the ceo handles life

https://i.imgur.com/sfTt5lK.png

Nussbaum likes the new season:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/22/high-maintenance-an-anthology-show-that-really-works

In the show’s second season on HBO, airing this month, the ease is back, thank God, and the series feels, even in slighter moments, newly confident, with an increased ability to reflect a larger world in flux.

crossing my fingers. I need this right now!

Yay! I love this show. That interview/hagiographic puff-piece, though...

ben sinclair was super chill about his split with his ex wife on colbert, seems like a good guy

they’d have to be pretty chill to still collaborate, although like the article says, some of the scripts kind of got a harsh vibe for a bit there

Money moves mountains tho

What is "propaganda for egg-freezing"?

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTixIvhRTFcp46VRzAsYbkElEyJZq04Pz6buHuxIlJ0qynpn-5V

xp presumably single women who think they might not be in the right spot to have kids when they're most fertile putting some eggs on ice just in case they decide to later

yeah, i have family that did that shit; it's expensive and painful and frustrating and ultimately not super likely to be useful

i understand what egg-freezing is, my partner and i have done it. i'm not sure why "propaganda".

ah, sorry. there's folks who argue that, without a specific plan, it's a way to profit off of the intersection of women in the workplace and biological clock without addressing the underlying issues.

your personal situation is your own, not trying to be disrespectful.

would welcome your feedback on that tbh. i feel like it put my family through a lot of pain and frustration and cash following a messy breakup.

ha, it was the most stressful experience of my life, and the most expensive, but we're both glad we tried

the fact that egg-freeing became 90s comedy shorthand for "crazy lonely lady" is just heaping cruelty on something that's already a lifetime stress-high

generally though, i think it's great, i think people more should do it, but it should not be that fucking expensive, and come with better counselling options than it currently does

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Premieres tonight

I hated the season opener last time (about the two friends having a nervous breakdown) - too cruel, where the series had never been cruel before. Would love to start watching again if it's improved.

yeah, cruel was p good word for the last opener. fingers crossed for this season

new one is kind of o_O

yeah I thought it was pretty bad