High Maintenance - Very good web-series. Discuss.

I was not down with the internet addiction guy's apartment burning down as the punchline, wtf.

Also was expecting the Guy to freak out about being on camera when meeting the crazy dance marathon lady.

as someone who recently planned a lakeside marriage proposal that didn’t quite go exactly as i’d expected and yet still had a happy ending, i very much appreciated the finale

one of the things that's nice about this show is that ultimately, pretty much everyone on the show is good. or trying to do good. at least...nothing has a dark underbelly. i appreciate that, it's refreshing in prestige TV.

^ absolutely. Everyone is keeping on

I always liked works of fiction where there's no real bad guy and everyone's just doing their best but bad shit still happens because of misunderstandings etc. because I thought it was more "realistic"--it wasn't until relatively recently that I discovered that real, cartoonishly villainous bad guys are actually everywhere in real life

(sorry, kind of apropos of nothing, need to catch up on this show, haven't tuned in since the web series)

Last episode was great

I find this show very touching, I think in part due to its contast to so prestige TV

Like, I wish all these characters the best and I hope it all works out for them

This season was full of touching moments you don't get with other TV shows. The scene with The Guy and the elderly man suffering from dementia who couldn't find his key was heartbreaking.

The scene where the doctor saves the dude choking on the tuna brought me to tears. Show is refreshingly non jaded and often life affirming

even when someone's a jerk, the plot never really dwells on it. some people are jerks, who cares!

this show is underrated

i thought this most recent season was great and echo the last few posts itt

great first episode; big fan of Erin Markey and glad to see her get to do an understated turn in the b plot

luis "bronx obama" ortiz

Jen Harris! Catherine Cohen! They're spotlighting a whole buncha downtown weirdo artists that I love!
Show has been very good so far.

i've only watched a few episodes this season, mostly good! the film set one (which i didn't finish yet) seems a little insular and annoying, too many "busy people talking busily while walking" scenes but maybe it gets better by the end

I'm finding that i prefer episodes that are quite the guy heavy.

Enjoying this season but I'm not sure how I feel about the Guy being a well-rounded human being with emotional needs, etc. In fact, I would say I'm against it.

"breathwork" is a terrible episode

yeah i thought it sucked.

eh, i've spent time both on location shoots and at Grand Prospect Hall where that filmed so I was amused by the verisimilitude. plus i always have time for Amy Ryan (and Jo Firestone!)
but yes, it was by far the weakest of the pack thus far. Still better than most!

past couple weeks have been next level great IMO.

also, here's the instagram page of the woman who played nanny (she's a choreographer): https://www.instagram.com/r_plant/ which has dozens of other similar dance pieces she's been filming in areas around NY for quite a while.

past couple weeks have been next level great IMO.

― akm, Saturday, March 16, 2019 10:52 AM (thirty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

agree totally

Phew : https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/hbo-s-high-maintenance-renewed-season-4-1195721

i've been "getting into" this show for a while and idk what to say other than it's wonderful. i'm excited to get thru s3 so i can start the web series again.

Good essay on High Maintenance, Master of None, and Russian Doll and their relationship to New York: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/magazine/new-york-tv.html

Basically about how these shows self-consciously celebrate the city's diversity in a way that often feels like creative-class fantasy.

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2019 season is nominated in the 2019 ILX TV poll:

ILX's Best Television of 2019 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends January 31

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (4 minimum, 25 maximum, organized by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail by end of day today. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

New episode was great!

Oh this started up again? Excellent

I think they have the best casting of any show on TV. So many fun characters!

Larry Owens was outrageously good.

wow the NPR writers' room was nightmarish, what a horrible job!

had no idea that was Ira Glass until the bit at the end lol

Ira seems like he might be very into playing the cool mentor figure, with his long hair and young staff. Also it's always weird to hear his voice (and Zoe Chace's) coming out of a human face.

The Guy's name is Rufus!

this season has been pretty good

pretty sure his name is Uncle Rufus

i liked this episode but it seemed a little anticlimactic for end of the season. also, forgive me, but I didn't get the crash pad; was it an air bnb that is used mainly by people who work for airlines? why were destiny and her sister there?

It's Cosmo Rufus

(I haven't actually been able to watch this season past the first few, our HBO Go plug was disconnected)

i think seasons 2 + 3 are the best ... not sure how to rank the vimeo series with those but it's up there as well, with the asterisk that its a different show in some ways

1 I think is the worst, and 4 a slight step down from 2+3

this show kind of half gives me fomo and half makes me miss my friends & our irl adventures

and I REALLY want to see a COVID season

Series 4 finally arrived on amazon prime in the UK.

Would like to see a few more views on this series. Thought it was a bit uneven - with a few dull episodes ( the sneakers episode, the amazon parcel stealing wife episode, the dental assistant episode and - sadly - even the finale). Maybe the series overall had its run.

Cashed.
https://tvline.com/2021/01/14/high-maintenance-not-returning-for-season-5-hbo/

:(

Sad, in a way.

I have mixed and uneven feelings about it. I’ve just rewatched it all over Xmas, and for me the original web episodes remain the best. And bear repeated viewing.

Series 2 of HBO was a big improvement on the first series. The series 3 premiere set outside New York offered an interesting possibility to develop the series in a new way, with a deeper focus on The Guy’s background. But ultimately, they didn’t choose to do that - though there were some strong individual episodes. Series 4 however was a bit of a disappointment. Especially after the long wait here in the UK for episodes.

a shame cause they're perfectly suited to do a pandemic season

i agree s2 + 3 were actually pretty great and 4 and to a greater extent 1 a bit disappointing

def was looking forward to a pandemic or post pandemic season of this show though :(

Yeah I wanted more

Season 3 of this show was so meh I never even checked out the last season. I still liked the web series format the best, though season 2 of the HBO show was pretty good. Basically, the more the focus of the show shifted to the Guy and away from the customers whose lives we got to briefly know the worse the show became.

Bummer. Even when it wasn’t at its best this show had more love of humanity in it than any other.