Co-created by the casting director of 30 Rock. Hannibal Burress appears. Have not seen anything nail Williamsburg circa now quite so well.
http://www.helpingyoumaintain.com/episodes
― viacom dios, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 20:34 (ten years ago) link
this is fantastic indeed and like you say its spot-on in its depiction of williamsburg and it does it evokes a contemporary time and place much better than portlandia.
― Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 21:00 (ten years ago) link
some of these are really good! but i'm just so sick of brooklyn porn, there are enough attempts at "nailing" it that i don't really care which ones have the most success
― shit, cat shit, cat shit, cat shit, cat shit, cat shit, cat shit, cat (zachlyon), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 21:34 (ten years ago) link
I like this web series but haven't dipped back in since the first time I found it.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 21:45 (ten years ago) link
i love this series so much
the newest one is really crazy and awesome, kind of a bummer that dealer guy is barely in it but its also kind of cool to see how it can work without him:
http://vimeo.com/79948720
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Friday, 6 December 2013 15:28 (ten years ago) link
yeah another great episode. hopefully more to follow soon.
― subaltern 8 (Michael B), Friday, 6 December 2013 19:59 (ten years ago) link
Damn this show is good. Once again they nailed the BK life-hacker Crossfit dude. I know cause I was that guy. I read Timothy Ferris and did squats in restaurant bathrooms, listened to Bashar and preached the laws of existence, experimented with polyphasic sleep, ate once daily giant grass-fed steaks. That was a couple years ago and thankfully I'm way more relaxed about all that stuff now.
― but, hurt. (Self-Taught Dougie), Friday, 6 December 2013 20:59 (ten years ago) link
you couldnt get past the crystal insertion either huh
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Friday, 6 December 2013 21:02 (ten years ago) link
I drew the line with crystals. I did though creep out a girl (in bed even) when I told her I wanted to swim with dolphins. She was convinced that dolphins are all crazy rapists and could ejaculate 50 feet.
― but, hurt. (Self-Taught Dougie), Friday, 6 December 2013 21:05 (ten years ago) link
woah i just googled "bashar"
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Friday, 6 December 2013 21:07 (ten years ago) link
i knew it was over when we were at teagan's sacred geometry workshop in sedona
― tpp, Saturday, 7 December 2013 15:08 (ten years ago) link
― but, hurt. (Self-Taught Dougie), Friday, December 6, 2013 4:05 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
Maybe she's the one behind the DOLPHINS RAPE PEOPLE stickers plastered all over MHT
― 乒乓, Saturday, 7 December 2013 15:33 (ten years ago) link
"Helen" was some shit, man. Like "Louie" level of bleakness
― 龜, Saturday, 4 January 2014 19:03 (ten years ago) link
haha yes it was. I just watched the first six or seven of these yesterday. good show
― dmr, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
Many lols at the punchline to "Elijah"
― 龜, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 16:19 (ten years ago) link
I watched the whole thing the other day. Didn't take long! Hopefully there will be more.
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 16:24 (ten years ago) link
should we do a "actually good web series 2014" thread?
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Wednesday, January 8, 2014 9:13 AM (1 hour ago)
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link
"be the change you want to see in the world"
- john fogerty
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 16:33 (ten years ago) link
"sorry man, here, have an edible. it's on me. better hide it though, homegirl will snatch a pastry."
― dmr, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 20:15 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8d3LOpOQX0
― 龜, Thursday, 9 January 2014 00:26 (ten years ago) link
new one is up
http://vimeo.com/85795925
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 18:43 (ten years ago) link
I watched first 6+ of these and I just can't even though someone I know is in some of them.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 20:32 (ten years ago) link
At first I was excited that people are into that thing she does! Cool for her! Then I was like, these people are why I pass on invitations to go out to half the things and I haven't laughed in 3 episodes and now I'm starting to get mad at everyone.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 20:33 (ten years ago) link
theyre not all supposed to be funny though...?
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 20:38 (ten years ago) link
i mean i guess they are, but they each have a very different tone, which is a strength imo
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 20:39 (ten years ago) link
i liked the three i sawwhat's not to like?
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 20:43 (ten years ago) link
Well, for me, the answer is "All of the people" but I'm a little unsophisticated like that.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 20:45 (ten years ago) link
i still dgi but ok!
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 20:47 (ten years ago) link
They're all terrible? Like normal-terrible, for the most part, I guess--too real, maybe? If I wanted to be reminded that people that dumb and terrible exist I wouldn't have made so many life choices that avoid them. I get that the "types" are being sketched in gentle or not so gentle mockery or even recognition, but the characters make me angry and I want to yell at them and then leave the party and go home.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 20:56 (ten years ago) link
a sign of great art imo
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 20:58 (ten years ago) link
how i feel about lena dunham always xp
― Mordy , Wednesday, 5 February 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link
xp Probably! I hope it's a success, the writers and actors seem great.
xp to Mordy: Yeah I don't watch that show either.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link
i thought the one about the craigslist homeless girl was pretty funny and the one with the neurotic assistant who winds up in the bathroom talking to the dealer guy, can't remember the other one i watched. i dunno, these are not people i encounter ever irl and i didn't really feel hostility toward them as characters, but i was only with them for like 10 min or something!
i just thought it was weird you hated them so much because i never watch internet comedy videos but i found these pleasing for a passing larf.
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 21:01 (ten years ago) link
lol oh these are basically real people, you can overhear them having these exact conversations in most coffee shops, bars, subways, street corners, public spaces...
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 21:05 (ten years ago) link
io the one i just posted has intersectional feminism content
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 21:17 (ten years ago) link
oh all right I'll listen to it while I make lunch.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 21:24 (ten years ago) link
good idea too look @ it too
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 21:44 (ten years ago) link
LL the craigslist homeless one is based on a real person official noise board thread for korean abdul-jabbar, the vice magazine mormon grifter
― 龜, Thursday, 6 February 2014 02:56 (ten years ago) link
'most' is maybe not the right word here, but, yeah
i love this as like, social anthropology, but i can see just being wearied by it
― Lamp, Thursday, 6 February 2014 03:00 (ten years ago) link
See, now "Matilda" was genuinely warm and loving, and I enjoyed it a lot! Molly critiquing Iron John was the extra sprinkles on top.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Thursday, 6 February 2014 04:11 (ten years ago) link
Anyone know the music track at the start of cycle three, one about the comedian going on tour?
― cardamon, Thursday, 6 February 2014 04:22 (ten years ago) link
gil scot heron - new york is killing me
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Thursday, 6 February 2014 04:28 (ten years ago) link
o hfound it, gil scott heron xp
― cardamon, Thursday, 6 February 2014 04:29 (ten years ago) link
Just watched all of this in one go. Amazing.
― cardamon, Thursday, 6 February 2014 05:26 (ten years ago) link
So many shows try to do this but end up being maudlin or nasty
new ep on wednesday!
teaser: http://vimeo.com/89470509
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 24 March 2014 16:31 (ten years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/a89b8b559bacd2bcfbc7ee5fac07937b/tumblr_mgbjnpJEld1qiqwbao4_1280.png
ben sinclair is a sleepy, sexy satyr. i love him.
― ogmor, Monday, 24 March 2014 16:42 (ten years ago) link
so good:
http://vimeo.com/channels/highmaintenance/90011431
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 27 March 2014 03:54 (ten years ago) link
I think I finally 'get' New York now
― 龜, Thursday, 27 March 2014 14:47 (ten years ago) link
wkiw his character, he always seems so chillreally loving this thing, can't remember who brought it up in another thread but thx
― Jibe, Thursday, 27 March 2014 15:33 (ten years ago) link
after the new ep went up last week i noticed that episode 2 (aka "heidi", aka Hipster Grifter episode) was taken offline for a few days
its back up now, and it must have been down because of a copyright dispute because unfortunately the Arthur Russell song has been replaced with something that doesn't work nearly as well :-(
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 31 March 2014 19:03 (ten years ago) link
i think the music in "Olivia" (ep5) had its music changed too but i cant recall what it was previously
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 31 March 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link
awesome news:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/vimeo-finances-web-series-high-707756
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 29 May 2014 14:30 (nine years ago) link
Good for the show, but doesn't Vimeo on Demand mean that you have to pay to watch it?
― go to evangelical agonizing eternal hell (Karl Malone), Thursday, 29 May 2014 14:38 (nine years ago) link
hm i didnt notice that
i wouldnt mind paying a few bucks to see new HM eps though, but it might make it harder to turn new people on to it
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 29 May 2014 14:48 (nine years ago) link
Stoked for the reefer madness
― 龜, Friday, 30 May 2014 01:21 (nine years ago) link
new cast/cameo predictions:
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 30 May 2014 12:39 (nine years ago) link
this show is great! thanks gr80
― marcos, Sunday, 8 June 2014 00:57 (nine years ago) link
seriously this is really good! almost through the whole series. thought they were all going to be comedy but many of them aren't
― marcos, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
kind of relieved i don't know anybody like that polyphasic sleeper dude, dude was fucked
― marcos, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 21:31 (nine years ago) link
gotta say though that the naming convention is kind of annoying, makes it hard to keep track of which episode is which
― marcos, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 21:33 (nine years ago) link
"qasim" is def the least comedy but its still comedy imo
also my fave ep, except for maybe "rachel"
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link
the ep w/ connan mockasin tunes may be my favorite so far
also i'm pretty impressed w/ how effective the show is w/ a such a short format, so much visual information is packed in the first couple minutes of every episode
― marcos, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
I am sad that my favorite episode has a really gross joke abt child molestation
― aaliyah papi (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 21:56 (nine years ago) link
the one w/ the assholes? yea they should've figured something else out
― marcos, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 21:58 (nine years ago) link
it's the one I always want to show people but never do bcz SPOILER ALERT a lot of ppl have been molested as children that shit's not fucking funny
― aaliyah papi (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 22:07 (nine years ago) link
did that one use to have a grimes song that's since been replaced?
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 22:08 (nine years ago) link
is there a thread for solid web series? The Restaurant on youtube is good
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 22:20 (nine years ago) link
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Wednesday, January 8, 2014 10:28 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 22:24 (nine years ago) link
start it! i'd be down but i don't know of any other good web series
― marcos, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 23:38 (nine years ago) link
i'll wait for 2015
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 23:39 (nine years ago) link
― aaliyah papi (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, June 10, 2014 5:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― marcos, Tuesday, June 10, 2014 5:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― aaliyah papi (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, June 10, 2014 6:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm! that's my favorite one too and that joke was so weirdly mean-spirited and made it one of those things that i really enjoy but don't really recommend to that many people
― slam dunk, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 09:02 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTgcaIB-PHk
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
was hoping this was bumped for a new ep
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
me too
― marcos, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
also weird to see ben sinclair w/o a plaid shirt and deep-neck T
― marcos, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link
his mannerisms - esp his eyes - remind me a bit of peter krause
― ogmor, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
totally late to this show; the helen episode kinda broke my heart
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 17:52 (nine years ago) link
yea :(
also the casting for this show is incredible, huh? kind of feel like i know all of these characters just by watching them in these short episodes. that annoying fro-haired dude in "dinah" especially.
― marcos, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 18:12 (nine years ago) link
binge watching all of them today. The Hannibal episode!kinda bummed that I got turned onto this by Nussbaum in the NYorker; I am officially past my sell by date
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 18:15 (nine years ago) link
Qasim!
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 18:51 (nine years ago) link
all done. amazed at how empathic, honest and kind these are; the bar keeps getting raised.kinda wish i had been a bit more patient... i want eight more of these like NOW
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 19:20 (nine years ago) link
i know, i blew through them in like 2 days.
― marcos, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
ben sinclair gives so much grounding to the show, too, his dealer character is so compassionate to all the characters (when they deserve it at least) and lets their weirdness blossom
― marcos, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
it's sex positive without assuming that people who fuck a lot are somehow more free
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
"so is this like some pick-up artist shit?""oh no i don't do that i'm a proud asexual"
― marcos, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 21:01 (nine years ago) link
what episode do yall use to get people into this show? the assholes one is good but as mentioned upthread the molestation joke is an off-note... maybe "heidi" but the hipster grifter thing is maybe too ripped from the headlines... "rachel" is the best all-around imo but it's a little long.
― adam, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 22:09 (nine years ago) link
i usually tell ppl to go stevie -> heidi -> olivia -> rachael -> qasim
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 23:05 (nine years ago) link
start from the beginning to see how it evolves
matilda is a top 5 for me
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 04:04 (nine years ago) link
agree with starting from the beginning but alternately I'm feeling:
trixie -> brad pitts -> helen -> jonathan -> matilda -> dinah -> elijah -> quasim -> rachel
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 05:53 (nine years ago) link
I like how it goes from being light hearted and funny to like really earnest and tragic at times
― aaliyah papi (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 12:12 (nine years ago) link
otm, if you start at the beginning then helen and jonathan hit you pretty hard b/c you are not expecting them
― marcos, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 13:50 (nine years ago) link
kinda bummed that vimeo ppv is their big break, was hoping they'd get a comedy central or HBO deal
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 19:01 (nine years ago) link
they were in discussions with FX but I guess it didn't work out
― Number None, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
does anyone have hard info on how "premium" vimeo works? because i love this show but wtf i am not paying for a new subscription solely to see this unless it is hella minimal.
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
ok, i think yall are right, just rewatched "stevie" and it's a really deft introduction to his character.
― adam, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
its also short & sweet and leaves you wanting more
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
kinda bummed that vimeo ppv is their big break, was hoping they'd get a comedy central or HBO deal― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, June 25, 2014 3:01 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, June 25, 2014 3:01 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yea totally
― marcos, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
havent watched all yet but think i lol'd the hardest @ "ok fuck it dude i'll stay" in dinah
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 26 June 2014 00:38 (nine years ago) link
lol yea his character is so real & gregarious, like a focus-grouped wkiw
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 26 June 2014 11:19 (nine years ago) link
otm
the casting, performances, & timing are all so top notch, its kindof mindblowing
end of the Passover ep is also hilarious
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 26 June 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
i love that magician dude, pops up in 'dinah' too
― marcos, Thursday, 26 June 2014 16:31 (nine years ago) link
i'm like four episodes in, this is one of the best things i've ever fucking seen - the "Assholes" one should be expanded somehow.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 7 July 2014 00:14 (nine years ago) link
the molestation zing didn't bother me in the slightest, mostly because those characters were such awful people.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 7 July 2014 01:18 (nine years ago) link
http://www.helpingyoumaintain.com/post/91043559200/mick-watson-of-smart-giant-started-making-these
http://i.imgur.com/oG6MP38.png
http://i.imgur.com/cC6bFyL.png
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 7 July 2014 14:02 (nine years ago) link
stevie is a much more accomplished chalk doodler than that poster suggests
― ogmor, Monday, 7 July 2014 14:07 (nine years ago) link
u mean Quinn
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 7 July 2014 18:26 (nine years ago) link
maybe I do! the cut to the apple bong and the chalk doodling was the first heads-up that this show was going to keep it posi
― ogmor, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 00:06 (nine years ago) link
fyi the near-euphoric use in of fleetwod mac's "gypsy" over the closing credits/slow-mo shot of sinclair on the bike has been replaced by a diff song :-(
it almost sounds like its still playing muffled in the background of the bathroom scene but i cant be sure
by my watch that's:
lol i wonder if there are torrents somewhere of the originals
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 00:57 (nine years ago) link
the songs shouldn't even have to be good (well, "gyspy" is impossible to top) but they should have been a better tonal match at least...the 'heidi' one changes the entire story
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 06:22 (nine years ago) link
the one with the jewish holiday is just...wow
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 12 July 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link
the guy who talks about his failed acting audition is do good
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Saturday, 12 July 2014 22:08 (nine years ago) link
so* good
"that happens to everyone, right?"
"no."
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 12 July 2014 23:02 (nine years ago) link
otm! that dude is hilarious, it's like a 20-second bit but i just love him
― marcos, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:52 (nine years ago) link
i saw the guy who plays shut-in at PS1 this weekend
― caek, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 23:05 (nine years ago) link
i also love the red-head street musician that pops up now and then
― marcos, Thursday, 17 July 2014 15:08 (nine years ago) link
"give me, like, 15..........no, like, 45 minutes"
― marcos, Thursday, 17 July 2014 15:09 (nine years ago) link
lol yes, love how in to it he is
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 17 July 2014 15:34 (nine years ago) link
it's the look on his face as he takes a bite of his sandwich that makes it for me
― adam, Thursday, 17 July 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
GHENGIS
http://instagram.com/p/qt1bfVEh4j/?modal=true
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 21 July 2014 18:47 (nine years ago) link
yes! can't wait
― marcos, Monday, 21 July 2014 18:51 (nine years ago) link
matilda wasn't my favorite when i first saw it but i watched it again and it's really really good
― marcos, Thursday, July 17, 2014 10:09 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, July 17, 2014 10:34 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― adam, Thursday, July 17, 2014 11:33 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink^^^THIS
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 21 July 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
saw this on my (early, sick) ride home today
http://instagram.com/p/quhkTFR5Jc/
― chinavision!, Monday, 21 July 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
Had no idea the series existed until reading this thread. Not catching the intermediate-level Brooklyn references, but dialog, acting, technicals are all great. More of this please.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 21 July 2014 21:35 (nine years ago) link
http://i57.tinypic.com/jt9j41.jpg
-IT'S 420 WEIRD-VOICE DUDE!!!
-hey who the fuck is that? you think i don't know that dipshit?
― marcos, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
hey man can i get a cigarette and a light for a dollar? oh i don't have a dollar
― marcos, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 14:25 (nine years ago) link
http://www.vice.com/read/the-creators-of-high-maintenance-are-high-and-eating-all-the-snacks-in-vimeos-office
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
Vimeo is giving us funding for at least the next six episodes, and the only condition, really, is that we need to produce them and release them by the end of the year.
rad!
― marcos, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 21:09 (nine years ago) link
def confirms a paywall sitch though
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
NOVEMBER ELEVENTH!!!
http://www.thevideoink.com/news/vimeo-sets-premiere-date-first-funded-series-high-maintenance/#.VCMer5RdWSq
― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 19:44 (nine years ago) link
i'm srsly considering hosting a high maintenance party, starting out with the original 13 for n00bs then going straight in to the new 6
― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 19:49 (nine years ago) link
that's a pretty good idea
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 20:32 (nine years ago) link
where do you live again?
― EMA Sumac (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 20:45 (nine years ago) link
http://vimeo.com/channels/highmaintenance
new eps 11/11 bros
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 8 November 2014 23:14 (nine years ago) link
From Emmy-winning casting director Katja Blichfeld (30 Rock) and actor/editor Ben Sinclair (Delocated, 30 Rock, Law and Order) comes High Maintenance. The series centers around a cannabis dealer known simply as "The Guy" (Sinclair) who slips in and out of the lives of his clients – an eclectic array of New Yorkers with neuroses as diverse as the city they live in.As the first-ever Vimeo Original, the already critically acclaimed web series is producing six all-new episodes to help you maintain. Order now, and watch the first three starting 11/11.
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 8 November 2014 23:15 (nine years ago) link
oh hah didnt see it upthread
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 8 November 2014 23:16 (nine years ago) link
would attend hi maintenance party yes ^____^
$7.99 for all 6 for 12 months, not bad.
Curious to see how it works out for them/Vimeo.
― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Sunday, 9 November 2014 03:55 (nine years ago) link
So totally worth it and more! Going to preorder.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Sunday, 9 November 2014 19:35 (nine years ago) link
"Matilda" and "Rachel" apparently came out after I watched them all (up to "Qasim") and I never saw it!
"Rachel" is SO GOOD and touching and sweet and unexpected!!! I am v, v impressed that someone had the idea to take the episode in the direction that it went.
― Belami Young (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 9 November 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
are these ten minute episodes? or half hour? because if it's the latter that seems fair but paying eight bucks to rent an hour long movie in 2014 seems wrong, regardless of how much i like this show.
― Steve 'n' Seagulls and Flock of Van Dammes (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 9 November 2014 21:32 (nine years ago) link
yeah Rachel is incred.
fyi the mom is played by Katja Blichfeild (in case you didn't catch that.)
also rachel comey plays herself
xp
― ✓ out this insane nakh yall (gr8080), Sunday, 9 November 2014 21:33 (nine years ago) link
rachel is the best episode
― caek, Sunday, 9 November 2014 21:46 (nine years ago) link
They're still 10-15 minutes apparently
― Number None, Sunday, 9 November 2014 23:14 (nine years ago) link
1st 3 are up
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 05:24 (nine years ago) link
from the title fade-in of geiger to 6min mark is prob better than this entire new michael mann hacker movie
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 05:45 (nine years ago) link
oh its getting weird
its ALL getting dam
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 05:46 (nine years ago) link
omg @ ruth
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 06:06 (nine years ago) link
need to see this! and yea rachel is probably the best episode. was the first one i saw too.
― marcos, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 14:56 (nine years ago) link
need to see this!
meaning the new ones, i have watched the first 13 like 3 or 4 times each
― marcos, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 14:57 (nine years ago) link
but you know what i really need to do......is watch all these over again......WHILE HIGH!!!!
http://grantland.com/features/high-maintenance-vimeo-katja-blichfeld-ben-sinclair/
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 15:40 (nine years ago) link
under my balls at the base of the shaft
― ✓ out this insane nakh yall (gr8080), Sunday, 16 November 2014 02:05 (nine years ago) link
lotta good press in the last week.
i really like this quote from NPR's writeup:
Sinclair says he can tell the buzz around the series is building. "When I walk around on the streets now, some people who are doing my character's job will come up to me and be like —" Sinclair lowers his voice to a whisper — " 'I'm doing it right now.' "
― ✓ out this insane nakh yall (gr8080), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
tbh hes so distinct cant believe ive never run into him
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
cant believe they killed off ruth
and just to make that scuba diving joke lmao
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
my wife saw him on knickerbocker avenue in bushwick last week, was the only time i've ever seen her starstruck aside from alison janney
― adam, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 19:36 (nine years ago) link
― caek, Wednesday, July 16, 2014 7:05 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
slept-on post
― caek, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 05:10 (nine years ago) link
i don't mind that they killed off ruth, she was a little annoying tbqf
― marcos, Thursday, 20 November 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
glad i sprung for this though, these are good and the creators seem like good folks
shit geiger was a little intense
― marcos, Thursday, 20 November 2014 17:30 (nine years ago) link
ASMR ref was hilarious
glad to see the reappearance of that uberman guy from qasim, lol
― marcos, Thursday, 20 November 2014 17:32 (nine years ago) link
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)
― ✓ out this insane nakh yall (gr8080), Thursday, 20 November 2014 17:46 (nine years ago) link
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
― marcos, Thursday, 20 November 2014 17:52 (nine years ago) link
ruth was great though
― marcos, Thursday, 20 November 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
the throwback closing credits for genghis were both eye-rollingly cheesy and deeply satisfying imo
― ✓ out this insane nakh yall (gr8080), Thursday, 20 November 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
ugh should i pay $8 for this idk if i want to but i want to see them
― Belami Young (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 20 November 2014 18:05 (nine years ago) link
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"
― ✓ out this insane nakh yall (gr8080), Thursday, 20 November 2014 18:07 (nine years ago) link
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
― 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.
― marcos, Thursday, 20 November 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link
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
― marcos, Thursday, 20 November 2014 18:25 (nine years ago) link
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
― marcos, Thursday, 20 November 2014 18:26 (nine years ago) link
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
― ✓ out this insane nakh yall (gr8080), Thursday, 20 November 2014 18:28 (nine years ago) link
wise
― marcos, Thursday, 20 November 2014 18:30 (nine years ago) link
i guess. given the modern media landscape it's a really bad value proposition for everybody concerned.
― So beautiful cow (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 20 November 2014 18:31 (nine years ago) link
agreed, very interested in seeing how it plays out
― ✓ out this insane nakh yall (gr8080), Thursday, 20 November 2014 18:34 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Belami Young (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 20 November 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
wait the $8 is for all 6 right? b/c the first 3 total almost 50 minutes together
― marcos, Thursday, 20 November 2014 19:45 (nine years ago) link
$8 for all 6 yes
― ✓ out this insane nakh yall (gr8080), Thursday, 20 November 2014 19:45 (nine years ago) link
okay so it's more like $8 for 90 minutes of footage
― marcos, Thursday, 20 November 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
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
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 20 November 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
hey that's a great point
― Belami Young (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 20 November 2014 21:12 (nine years ago) link
there is full frontal male nudity in one of the three new ones
― ✓ out this insane nakh yall (gr8080), Thursday, 20 November 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
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.
― jaymc, Thursday, 20 November 2014 21:21 (nine years ago) link
genghis is a great ep btw, you guys are crazy
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 20 November 2014 21:53 (nine years ago) link
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
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 20 November 2014 21:54 (nine years ago) link
ruth > ghengis > geiger for me. Geiger wasn't just heavy, it was a bit wooden too.
― ljubljana, Thursday, 20 November 2014 22:32 (nine years ago) link
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
― marcos, Thursday, 20 November 2014 23:10 (nine years ago) link
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!
― marcos, Thursday, 20 November 2014 23:15 (nine years ago) link
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
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 20 November 2014 23:58 (nine years ago) link
god the people in "dinah" are so chicago. i feel like i worked with the annoying poofy haired dude at a call center.
― (曇り) (clouds), Saturday, 6 December 2014 07:26 (nine years ago) link
i felt sort of convicted by that dude at a few points :-/
― gr8080, Saturday, 6 December 2014 15:02 (nine years ago) link
Lmao
― deej loaf (D-40), Saturday, 6 December 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
oh yea the dinah episode struck me as very very really, i know all those folks
― marcos, Monday, 8 December 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link
and just the way the polyamorous girl said "that's TOTALLY valid" in response to a question about polyamory was just really perfect
― marcos, Monday, 8 December 2014 15:21 (nine years ago) link
finishing up watching all of them, plus watching the new ones
didn't realize how many episodes asexual dude is in!
― valleys of your mind (mh), Friday, 19 December 2014 14:47 (nine years ago) link
sorry, I mean the asexual magician
― valleys of your mind (mh), Friday, 19 December 2014 14:52 (nine years ago) link
mh what did you think about the new ones
― marcos, Friday, 19 December 2014 14:58 (nine years ago) link
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.
― valleys of your mind (mh), Friday, 19 December 2014 15:06 (nine years ago) link
i frequently ask myself the question "how much would i pay for a really sweet dreamcatcher?"
― marcos, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 22:12 (nine years ago) link
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, November 11, 2014 12:45 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i was so prescient
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 22:26 (nine years ago) link
new episodes go up at midnight EST/9pm PST tonight
― gr8080, Thursday, 5 February 2015 01:12 (nine years ago) link
alright, i splurged.
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 February 2015 12:58 (nine years ago) link
pricing model still ridiculous but two episodes in and it's SO GOOD.love the s1 character callbacks
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link
need to see the new ones today!
― marcos, Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link
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
― gr8080, Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link
i fell asleep before 11pm last nite-- def watching the new ones tonite
― gr8080, Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:58 (nine years ago) link
same
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:59 (nine years ago) link
tracee chimo is A+ in ESME
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 February 2015 18:37 (nine years ago) link
yea shes a lil too real
(im watching these during lunch, couldn't wait)
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 5 February 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link
okay, just finished the second season. will rewatch over the next day or two with my gal. This is aces stuff.
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 February 2015 18:57 (nine years ago) link
Sufjan, Esme and Sabrina - back to previous heights.
Ruth, Geiger, Genghis had me worried (especially Genghis).
― the gabhal cabal (Bob Six), Thursday, 5 February 2015 22:01 (nine years ago) link
sabrina was pretty great, even if the way it bucked the established format sorta rubbed me the wrong way, (not to mention giving me a near panic attack)
sufjan was a good setup but kinda took too long to deliver (heh no pun intended) dude's shirt game has me jealous.
esme was fantastic
― gr8080, Friday, 6 February 2015 01:03 (nine years ago) link
dude i've been waiting fifteen fucking years for a ferret ok i don't care what the fuck you think
― gr8080, Friday, 6 February 2015 01:04 (nine years ago) link
can't really tell if kabir's doing ok or not. :-/
― gr8080, Friday, 6 February 2015 01:42 (nine years ago) link
Ruth >> Sabrina > Esme >> Sufjan >>>> Genghis >>>>>> Geiger
― gr8080, Friday, 6 February 2015 01:56 (nine years ago) link
Where is Esme working at the beginning of that episode? Is it supposed to be a hostess bar or similar?
― the gabhal cabal (Bob Six), Friday, 6 February 2015 08:17 (nine years ago) link
Also:
didn't really expect this show to have me thinkin bout gender issues
― the gabhal cabal (Bob Six), Friday, 6 February 2015 08:22 (nine years ago) link
that's "the asshole" running the weedspot, isn't it?
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 February 2015 08:23 (nine years ago) link
it's the headquarters for the all-female weed delivery service she works for
don't think so
― gr8080, Friday, 6 February 2015 12:41 (nine years ago) link
Ah...Thx.
― the gabhal cabal (Bob Six), Friday, 6 February 2015 12:56 (nine years ago) link
i hope we catch a glimpse of Orly life-coaching in a future episode
― gr8080, Friday, 6 February 2015 12:58 (nine years ago) link
haha these were great
― marcos, Friday, 6 February 2015 20:30 (nine years ago) link
chad is such a great fuckin character, too real, all these people are too real
― marcos, Friday, 6 February 2015 20:31 (nine years ago) link
esme was good but orly was a little over the top imo though
― 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
― marcos, Friday, 6 February 2015 20:33 (nine years ago) link
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
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 6 February 2015 20:47 (nine years ago) link
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
― gr8080, Friday, 6 February 2015 21:02 (nine years ago) link
wkiw shroom dealer that's friends with the weed dealer guy
― marcos, Friday, 6 February 2015 22:20 (nine years ago) link
one for fun two for woo
― johnny crunch, Friday, 6 February 2015 22:25 (nine years ago) link
mushroom dealer's australian accent was confusing because it was somehow similar to her long island accent in orange is the new black.
― mizzell, Friday, 6 February 2015 22:33 (nine years ago) link
man i want some shrooms, that would be a good time. probably been 15 years since i last did shrooms
― marcos, Friday, 6 February 2015 22:34 (nine years ago) link
three for wheeeeeeee
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 February 2015 22:44 (nine years ago) link
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
― gr8080, Friday, 6 February 2015 22:57 (nine years ago) link
somebody forgot the magical box
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 February 2015 22:58 (nine years ago) link
ruth's freakout in bradd pitts
― gr8080, Friday, 6 February 2015 23:03 (nine years ago) link
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 February 2015 23:21 (nine years ago) link
― gr8080, Friday, 6 February 2015 23:31 (nine years ago) link
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 February 2015 23:54 (nine years ago) link
forks are you high
― gr8080, Saturday, 7 February 2015 00:07 (nine years ago) link
Just started watching this. Not a smoker, never been a smoker, but this works brilliantly as both parody and propaganda, so thumbs up.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 7 February 2015 14:31 (nine years ago) link
loved these
lake house episode a little too close to comfort for me i think
the extended universe they're creating is so great
― max, Saturday, 7 February 2015 16:47 (nine years ago) link
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
― 龜, Saturday, 7 February 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link
Ditmas park episode was waaaaaaaay too close to home. Literally, badumdum
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 7 February 2015 17:09 (nine years ago) link
co-sign
― gr8080, Saturday, 7 February 2015 17:10 (nine years ago) link
not totally surprised that most of chad's friends are just as obnoxious as he is
― marcos, Saturday, 7 February 2015 17:46 (nine years ago) link
kabir seems all right though
― marcos, Saturday, 7 February 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link
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
― marcos, Saturday, 7 February 2015 17:52 (nine years ago) link
basically two of the most comfortable people who have ever existed
― gr8080, Saturday, 7 February 2015 17:54 (nine years ago) link
lol yes
― marcos, Saturday, 7 February 2015 17:54 (nine years ago) link
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.
― gr8080, Saturday, 7 February 2015 17:59 (nine years ago) link
stevie d how come you never get ME high
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 8 February 2015 05:33 (nine years ago) link
positive vibes!
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/highmaintenance/117634114
― gr8080, Thursday, 12 February 2015 15:03 (nine years ago) link
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
― dudem, (clouds), Sunday, 29 March 2015 19:45 (nine years ago) link
$8
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 29 March 2015 20:19 (nine years ago) link
Correct way to do it is smoke em up and binge
― mh, Monday, 30 March 2015 01:24 (nine years ago) link
tru
― dudem, (clouds), Monday, 30 March 2015 05:09 (nine years ago) link
Moving to HBO!http://deadline.com/2015/04/high-maintenance-series-hbo-pot-comedy-1201412884/
― jaymc, Monday, 20 April 2015 16:48 (nine years ago) link
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.
"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
― jaymc, Monday, 20 April 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link
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
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 20 April 2015 17:17 (nine years ago) link
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..
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 20 April 2015 17:21 (nine years ago) link
I actually paid for the episodes but as a result, my credit card was frozen because of the 'suspicious' nature of small random payments.
― tayto fan (Michael B), Monday, 20 April 2015 17:33 (nine years ago) link
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.
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 20 April 2015 17:38 (nine years ago) link
this is good news, a better value proposition, broader audiences and (hopefully) bigger budgets and longer eps.
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 April 2015 19:41 (nine years ago) link
idk i really, really love short episodes; i think more shows should do it, it's like these tiny little morsels
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 20 April 2015 19:58 (nine years ago) link
tiny morsels are nice sometimes
Tiny little nugs
― 龜, Monday, 20 April 2015 19:58 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Karl Malone, Monday, 20 April 2015 20:01 (nine years ago) link
yeah, a few of those and I'm set
― mh, Monday, 20 April 2015 20:09 (nine years ago) link
i will go on record as wanting a half hour of high maintenance; i like their longer form work.
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 April 2015 20:20 (nine years ago) link
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
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 20 April 2015 20:24 (nine years ago) link
*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.
― Karl Malone, Monday, 20 April 2015 20:26 (nine years ago) link
i just watch all of them in one sitting right now, that works well too
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 April 2015 20:29 (nine years ago) link
They could do two 15-minute "segments" within a single half hour, like Louie used to do.
― jaymc, Monday, 20 April 2015 20:34 (nine years ago) link
Love American Style... on weed
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 02:07 (nine years ago) link
http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/20/qa-with-the-creators-of-high-maintenace/
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 15:24 (nine years ago) link
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)
― 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, 22 April 2015 15:54 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAXPY2dBq9I
― gr8080, Sunday, 13 September 2015 18:54 (eight years ago) link
I think of this a lot
― gr8080, Saturday, February 7, 2015 12:54 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 16 September 2015 13:41 (eight years ago) link
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
― marcos, Wednesday, 16 September 2015 13:47 (eight years ago) link
that ad was embarrassing btw xp
― marcos, Wednesday, 16 September 2015 13:55 (eight years ago) link
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
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 16 September 2015 13:55 (eight years ago) link
fwiw it's a supercut of several longer ads, still pretty embarrassing but Sinclair is the best part of each
― gr8080, Thursday, 17 September 2015 11:33 (eight years ago) link
they were shooting a scene with a psychic outside my apartment very early today
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 23 October 2015 00:45 (eight years ago) link
i don't think either ben or katja were in the scene but they were both watching on monitors
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 23 October 2015 00:46 (eight years ago) link
my fiance is out of town. i have this playing in the backround and am pretending i have roomates
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Saturday, 23 January 2016 03:32 (eight years ago) link
apparently it costs half a month's rent to see a broadway show
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Saturday, 23 January 2016 05:00 (eight years ago) link
i'm sorry... privates?
― gr8080, Saturday, 23 January 2016 17:56 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzSgxHd0MKo
― Number None, Saturday, 25 June 2016 01:32 (seven years ago) link
huh
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 25 June 2016 01:36 (seven years ago) link
All episodes have been taken down from Vimeo for the move to HBO, damn.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 15:09 (seven years ago) link
no wtf
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 22:33 (seven years ago) link
wow even the ones that they charged for, that's fucked up
― adam, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 23:50 (seven years ago) link
the ones they charged for always had a 12 month expiry date iirc
― Number None, Thursday, 14 July 2016 06:29 (seven years ago) link
High Maintenance premieres Friday, September 16 at 11 PM, followed by other episodes subsequent Fridays at the same time, exclusively on HBO
:(
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 10 August 2016 12:33 (seven years ago) link
:)
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 10 August 2016 13:15 (seven years ago) link
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― 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
― marcos, Wednesday, 10 August 2016 15:20 (seven years ago) link
finally saw 2nd season on hbo
i liked how a lot of the eps dealt with white anxiety lol
― 龜, Sunday, 11 September 2016 15:50 (seven years ago) link
wait the old web episodes are on HBO? nice.
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Sunday, 11 September 2016 17:52 (seven years ago) link
starts tonight!
― Number None, Friday, 16 September 2016 20:19 (seven years ago) link
what's the format gonna be? how long are the episodes?
― marcos, Friday, 16 September 2016 20:19 (seven years ago) link
Weird that it's a Friday night show.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 16 September 2016 20:34 (seven years ago) link
this is not terrible but its lost almost everything that made the webseries good
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 17 September 2016 21:45 (seven years ago) link
Sheesh, it was one episode! I thought the second segment was strong.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, 17 September 2016 21:48 (seven years ago) link
def had some laughs just like it shd be titled a diff show maybe idk
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 17 September 2016 21:57 (seven years ago) link
the diva blonde girl was p good
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 17 September 2016 21:59 (seven years ago) link
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
― 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
― gr8080, Monday, 19 September 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link
which was immediately ruined by the meth freakout
― gr8080, Monday, 19 September 2016 17:36 (seven years ago) link
first ep appears to be free on hbo's website?
― marcos, Monday, 19 September 2016 17:39 (seven years ago) link
correct.
― gr8080, Monday, 19 September 2016 17:40 (seven years ago) link
eh this was okay i guess but not that good
― marcos, Monday, 19 September 2016 18:46 (seven years ago) link
chad living in a theater was pretty funny
― marcos, Monday, 19 September 2016 18:47 (seven years ago) link
totally! but again the kind of callback that would have been more effective deeper in the season imo
― gr8080, Monday, 19 September 2016 18:57 (seven years ago) link
yea there really wasn't any kind of "inaugural" feeling here and i guess they are just kind of viewing this as a continuation rather than some new beginning but for any new viewers i thought this was a poor introduction to what makes the show good... even sinclair's character who is the anchor of the show was just kind of vacant and missing
― marcos, Monday, 19 September 2016 19:02 (seven years ago) link
chad asking the guy if he meant "that's so chad" as a pejorative and the guy admitting that he did reminded me of a half baked theory ive been kicking around for a while about what if any overall statement they are trying to make with the show and what The Guy is supposed to represent, which I've been meaning to put into a post itt
― gr8080, Monday, 19 September 2016 21:30 (seven years ago) link
its still only a half-formed idea for now tho
― gr8080, Monday, 19 September 2016 21:31 (seven years ago) link
Twist on the first was sort of amusing, I guess?
End of the second completely undermined the excellent parts that came before it.
Both seemed to be more reliant on drama than the webisodes. but I remain hopeful.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 19 September 2016 21:33 (seven years ago) link
The Guy is god imo
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Monday, 19 September 2016 21:44 (seven years ago) link
on the contrary, i think he is supposed to be an ubermensch
― gr8080, Monday, 19 September 2016 22:19 (seven years ago) link
fav scene of the first ep was the ghost dancing over the credits
― johnny crunch, Monday, 19 September 2016 22:33 (seven years ago) link
xp ooh I like that better
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Tuesday, 20 September 2016 00:19 (seven years ago) link
Is chad supposed to be David Eggers?
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 06:55 (seven years ago) link
― gr8080, Monday, September 19, 2016 6:19 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol explain please
― marcos, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 14:09 (seven years ago) link
the sex scene was a little ... gratuitous but lol i guess this is on hbo now
― marcos, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 14:12 (seven years ago) link
i liked how all over the place this ep. seemed
― a (waterface), Tuesday, 20 September 2016 14:17 (seven years ago) link
the new ones were just ok. i don't like how the Guy has a bigger role now
― 龜, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 21:21 (seven years ago) link
or, in other words, sometimes his appearances in the episode felt shoehorned in. like they were contractually obligated to have 10 minutes of the Guy in each episode
lol the only reason i latched on to the ubermench idea was because of the "UberMan" theme that ran through the Qasim episode (to sublime effect). beyond an absence of divinity and a focus on worldliness, i dont think there's much nietzsche in HM/The Guy at all (fwiw i only have a rudimentary understanding of nietzsche)
anyway, my half-baked theory:
HM works because its a show about weed that avoids stoner comedy and instead finds humor in the trials of nyc/urban/modern life etc that make people want to get fucking high. making the main character someone who's services need to be rendered in the privacy of ones home is a great device to get inside the personal lives of a diverse population and explore the ways that stress plays out. one of the main statements i see HM making is that the bullshit the world throws at us is often enough to make us act and treat each other (and ourselves) terribly. The Guy serves as an ideal yet fallible example of rising above and treating your fellow man (and yourself) with kindness, compassion, and honesty.
sometimes this manifests as The Guy being a sort of off-kilter guardian angel like getting a man in diabetic shock home safe, talking with a guy who hates his job about a career change, or setting up two lonely souls on a date. sometimes its doing the right thing when no one is looking, like offering encouragement to a vulnerable and intoxicated woman where other characters may have made a pass at her. in "rachel" he's just the right person to tell a man he looks great in drag. in "Esme" there's a moment during the confrontation with Orly where the aussie woman yells something like "nobody likes you!" and The Guy gives her a chiding "HEY", coming to the defense of even his enemy in the face of unnecessary cruelty. when questioned about his own dishonesty, he doesn't hedge at all and comes clean that he only wears a wedding band so that people will feel he's trustworthy. he's not a spineless pushover either - when he's wronged or cheated, he'll stand up for himself.
all of these examples are admittedly subtle- maybe just the easygoing nature of a carefree stoner instead of any sort of grand statement. but if you stand him up next to a self-obsessed jock devoted to a intergalactic alien angel, i think there are enough hints that The Guy is meant to be our UberMan.
― gr8080, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 19:58 (seven years ago) link
nice
― a (waterface), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 20:05 (seven years ago) link
thank you grady, v good post
― marcos, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 20:05 (seven years ago) link
I'm not sure the ubermensch necessarily would spend most of his time affecting the self-realization and self-actualization of others but I like it
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 20:06 (seven years ago) link
mb he's more like the o.g. emersonian oversoul which nietzsche was clearly into. top post
― ogmor, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 21:15 (seven years ago) link
surely occupies space between living and dead if he's fighting bike ghosts.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 21:31 (seven years ago) link
I thought this was great and i'm super happy to see new eps.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 22 September 2016 01:49 (seven years ago) link
The pun about personality in the title is obvious isn't it? Or is that a term that's gone out of use?Is there another pun there than personality /drugs?
Just watched 1st 4 or 5, thought they were good. Got everything up to the pay to view as well as the 1st full length. Will look forward to the rest.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 22 September 2016 07:09 (seven years ago) link
Haven't been able to see the new ones on HBO, but isn't he more of a bodhisattva figure than ubermensch?
― Half-baked profundities. Self-referential smirkiness (Bob Six), Thursday, 22 September 2016 12:22 (seven years ago) link
Dealer has the ability to as well as job of maintaining the high of a bunch of people who at at least one point would be called high maintenance.Wonder if the concept came to the writer on hearing somebody described by the term?Like, how does a high maintenance maintain their high?
― Stevolende, Thursday, 22 September 2016 12:31 (seven years ago) link
their website url is (used to be?) maintaining your high dot com
― gr8080, Thursday, 22 September 2016 13:08 (seven years ago) link
http://www.helpingyoumaintain.com
― ogmor, Thursday, 22 September 2016 13:22 (seven years ago) link
oh yeah duh
― gr8080, Thursday, 22 September 2016 13:36 (seven years ago) link
are the old episodes available on hbo? i don't see them there
― marcos, Thursday, 22 September 2016 13:41 (seven years ago) link
they appear as a separate show called "high maintenance web series"
― gr8080, Thursday, 22 September 2016 13:53 (seven years ago) link
really like the bodhisattva parallel, and as i said i only tossed off the ubermensch comparison as a response to mh's "the guy is God" post & because of the Qasim episode where the UberMan idea is introduced (as a man so lost in devotion to his body & an absurd deity that he can't relate to his fellow man)
it's an idealized humanist character with no link to divinity, but other than that i only really mean uber man in the literal sense and not a Nietzschean sense
― gr8080, Thursday, 22 September 2016 14:32 (seven years ago) link
i like the bodhisattva angle a lot
― marcos, Thursday, 22 September 2016 14:33 (seven years ago) link
hope chauncey appears again
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Thursday, 22 September 2016 14:41 (seven years ago) link
yeah i have a hunch the 2 method actors will be appearing on chad's stage by the end of this season
― gr8080, Thursday, 22 September 2016 14:53 (seven years ago) link
― 龜, Tuesday, September 20, 2016 5:21 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yea i think something that i missed from this episode was the little snippets of other characters you would get in older episodes when the guy would visit other customers or run into friends, e.g. the gay asian guy talking about filming a protest scene, the parents w/ the young toddler kid, the hardcore stoner dudes w/ the burned hand. the guy has importance when he's w/ other people and not necessarily in/of himself imo
― marcos, Thursday, 22 September 2016 15:00 (seven years ago) link
I saw HBO Ep1, I liked it, the assholes still make me cringe and the show feels a) terrible for beginners who don't know the web series b) not really sure of what to do with itself for a full half-hour. If they're going to do what they're doing w/ Ep1, this is not going to be a good half-hour show.
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 22 September 2016 15:05 (seven years ago) link
Like would it be nuts to just have each half-hour episode just be a series of shorter little vignettes that are maybe or maybe not connected?
having actual time constraints is tricky when the prior stuff just ran as long as was comfortable and now it's a matter of shoehorning in the right amount of content to fit the format
this was actually two episodes, right?
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Thursday, 22 September 2016 15:09 (seven years ago) link
yeah it was basically two episodes w/o a title card to separate them
― gr8080, Thursday, 22 September 2016 15:11 (seven years ago) link
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, September 22, 2016 11:05 AM (five minutes ago) Bookmark
animaniacs did this pretty well
― 龜, Thursday, 22 September 2016 15:11 (seven years ago) link
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ah ok but they don't appear to be free huh
― marcos, Thursday, 22 September 2016 16:28 (seven years ago) link
free if you have hbo go / cable package
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 22 September 2016 16:40 (seven years ago) link
so no, not free.
excellent mutli-part The Room reference in the episode
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Thursday, 22 September 2016 17:49 (seven years ago) link
in the new episode, i meant.
"you're my favorite customer", etc
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Thursday, 22 September 2016 17:50 (seven years ago) link
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, September 22, 2016 12:40 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh that's a bummer
― marcos, Thursday, 22 September 2016 17:52 (seven years ago) link
Haven't been able to see the new ones on HBO, but isn't he more of a bodhisattva figure than ubermensch?― Half-baked profundities. Self-referential smirkiness (Bob Six), Thursday, September 22, 2016 8:22 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark
― Half-baked profundities. Self-referential smirkiness (Bob Six), Thursday, September 22, 2016 8:22 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark
more liek bodhisativa am i right
― a simba man (Will M.), Thursday, 22 September 2016 17:59 (seven years ago) link
budhisativa
2nd ep worked better imo
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 24 September 2016 22:19 (seven years ago) link
^^^
― serge thoroughgoods (will), Saturday, 24 September 2016 23:07 (seven years ago) link
no one told me there were little interview intros!at the point I wonder if I wish they were optional they end so they are great
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Sunday, 25 September 2016 03:05 (seven years ago) link
really loved the subtle contrast of The Guy following the rules and the swingers breaking the rules
― gr8080, Sunday, 25 September 2016 13:27 (seven years ago) link
this episode was better than last week's imo
― marcos, Monday, 26 September 2016 18:22 (seven years ago) link
ehh
― a (waterface), Monday, 26 September 2016 18:27 (seven years ago) link
i didn't like how the second ep played a 'lol uptight immigrants' joke
― 龜, Thursday, 29 September 2016 02:53 (seven years ago) link
idk I come from an immigrant family and I thought it was fine
― marcos, Thursday, 29 September 2016 03:01 (seven years ago) link
but I feel u
Have you guys seen Easy? It's like a pointless and bad version of this set in Chicago
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 29 September 2016 05:02 (seven years ago) link
sweet, i gotta check that out!
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Thursday, 29 September 2016 05:05 (seven years ago) link
― marcos, Wednesday, September 28, 2016 11:01 PM (yesterday) Bookmark
to me it felt exactly like white person in a creative writing class trying to write non-white characters... just a lot of reliance on tired ideas
― 龜, Thursday, 29 September 2016 11:32 (seven years ago) link
rewatched the episode where the asexual magician decides to try his hand at being a teacher. forgot how bleak the ending was, but with the little HBO-provided Ben/Katja intro it made it kind of worse!
"we have a few friends who are teachers, and uh.. it's really hard work! thanks!"
the nutrition lady who came to speak to the class has that crazy thing where people think public speaking is ENUNCIATING really CLEARLY and you can see every one of her teeth somehow when she speaks. where does this thing even come from?
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Thursday, 29 September 2016 14:01 (seven years ago) link
this is ok, but I seem to remember the web series actually being funny
― Number None, Thursday, 29 September 2016 18:21 (seven years ago) link
kind of stopped just short of being infantile but the dog episode was still so well done.
― gr8080, Sunday, 2 October 2016 01:23 (seven years ago) link
I was irritated by the conceit at first but it won me over around the midway point.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 2 October 2016 03:22 (seven years ago) link
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, October 1, 2016 11:22 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol yea at 14 minutes in i was like this really sucks .. i guess i started to feel different when the cage was introduced
― marcos, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 00:45 (seven years ago) link
my gf turned to me like 2 minutes in and said "the whole episode is going to be like this, isnt it"
― gr8080, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 15:17 (seven years ago) link
also
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/29/podcasts/our-top-five-denzels.html
― gr8080, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 16:14 (seven years ago) link
i've loved all these episodes (i haven't seen the web series) and i thought the dog one was especially great, save for maybe that weird fantasy cut scene in the beginning that overtly implies the sexual dynamic b/w the dog and the walker
but otherwise i thought it neatly hit all the emotional themes this show aims for and i liked the concept too
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 6 October 2016 04:01 (seven years ago) link
Jordan u must watch the web series!! It's imo the best show of the last decade.
― gr8080, Friday, 7 October 2016 17:24 (seven years ago) link
main difference between the HBO episodes and the web episodes is the shoehorning into a specific running length and casting actors that are recognizable from other recent shows, which seems kind of jarring. Not that the web episodes were cast with total unknowns (especially not the ones that had cameos like Hannibal Burress) but it was less noticeable
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Friday, 7 October 2016 17:29 (seven years ago) link
i miss having free access to the web series, it is super lame that they migrated those to hbo for subscribers only
― marcos, Friday, 7 October 2016 17:31 (seven years ago) link
I mean im sure they had to contractually or whatever
― johnny crunch, Friday, 7 October 2016 17:36 (seven years ago) link
im really hating the hbo series and it makes me sad.
― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 7 October 2016 18:55 (seven years ago) link
It's been hit and miss. Liked the swingers and the dog was interesting, the Muslim college student could have used a full half hour of fleshing out I think.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 7 October 2016 19:43 (seven years ago) link
Definitely has not reached the highs of the webisodes though - Uberman, the second date ball dunking, etc.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 7 October 2016 19:44 (seven years ago) link
Quinn returning as someone who has her own assistant to be terrible to now was pretty great
― gr8080, Saturday, 8 October 2016 22:51 (seven years ago) link
tic ep was best of the new batch yet imo
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 9 October 2016 04:17 (seven years ago) link
milo z otm x 2 imo but it's a very small sample size
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 03:05 (seven years ago) link
smartphone class with older people reminded me of of the gallery attendant guy I saw at the museum over the weekend quietly grunting "ok google, football scores" at his phone over the weekend
― mh 😏, Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:41 (seven years ago) link
lmao
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:46 (seven years ago) link
tic ep was good but theremin player story was kind of pointlessly thrown in, it would've been its own ep in the web series but w/ the formatting it feels like it was forced in
― marcos, Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:46 (seven years ago) link
do you think the hipster grifter sued high maintenance irl and that's what gave rise to this ep
― 龜, Sunday, 16 October 2016 02:05 (seven years ago) link
given that this show was created by casting directors I guess I should not have been surprised at a Brett Gelman gag, that motherfucker is everywhere
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 16 October 2016 02:54 (seven years ago) link
I'm enjoying this. Binge watched 4 episodes of it last night. The only real mis-step was the overly self-referential "Selfie" episode.
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Saturday, 22 October 2016 11:59 (seven years ago) link
the instagram girl bit was the first time i felt they were really being just mean
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Saturday, 22 October 2016 12:25 (seven years ago) link
I don't know it it was mean. I did end up feeling sorry for her
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Saturday, 22 October 2016 12:42 (seven years ago) link
Awesome season finale.
― Ross, Saturday, 22 October 2016 16:43 (seven years ago) link
I thought he found instagram girl had shared stuff related to him that could be compromising and was directly against what they'd agreed.
Hadn't realised that this week was finale. Even at his apparently most fallible he seems remarkably mellow. Phone tossing aside. Can't say more than that but did seem more in control of himself than others might be.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 22 October 2016 17:29 (seven years ago) link
good coconut la croix joke
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 22 October 2016 23:05 (seven years ago) link
xp, instagram girl was a dick; I agree. But they painted her as crazy stupid and vapid and TALKIN BOUT MY GENERATION
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Sunday, 23 October 2016 04:16 (seven years ago) link
they painted her as lonely
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Sunday, 23 October 2016 07:17 (seven years ago) link
Patrick made a friend!!
― mh 😏, Sunday, 23 October 2016 15:36 (seven years ago) link
this is heartwarming
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Saturday, October 22, 2016 8:25 AM (yesterday) Bookmark
yeah it felt like gross nihilism to me too
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 23 October 2016 17:14 (seven years ago) link
i thought the second part of that episode softened it slightly but yeah it left a bad taste in my mouth
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
― mh 😏, Sunday, 23 October 2016 20:07 (seven years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/sarah-larson/michael-cyril-creighton-actor-without-limits
― just sayin, Thursday, 27 October 2016 04:54 (seven years ago) link
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
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 27 October 2016 06:49 (seven years ago) link
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
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 27 October 2016 06:50 (seven years ago) link
I love this show! Like mh says, it's heartwarming. But not in a syrupy way.
― schwantz, Thursday, 27 October 2016 17:35 (seven years ago) link
the dog episode was best imo
― harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 27 October 2016 17:36 (seven years ago) link
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)
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 27 October 2016 17:37 (seven years ago) link
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, 27 October 2016 18:53 (seven years ago) link
helen hunt guy is a fave
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Friday, 28 October 2016 14:05 (seven years ago) link
reprisal of homeless heidi was super lame i thought but whatever
havent watched finale yet
― marcos, Friday, 28 October 2016 14:23 (seven years ago) link
― 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
― marcos, Friday, 28 October 2016 19:14 (seven years ago) link
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
― a simba man (Will M.), Friday, 28 October 2016 19:52 (seven years ago) link
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...
― schwantz, Friday, 28 October 2016 21:15 (seven years ago) link
second half was really good
― marcos, Friday, 28 October 2016 21:30 (seven years ago) link
i have a big crush on rebecca naomi jones; seen her do some theater in nyc and she is really really goodalso Vivian!
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Saturday, 29 October 2016 20:14 (seven years ago) link
ive been wanting to share the older episodes with some friends but they are all gone, i can't find them anywhere. bummer man
― marcos, Thursday, 27 April 2017 19:56 (seven years ago) link
even on HBO?
― gr8080, Thursday, 27 April 2017 19:57 (seven years ago) link
they were on hbo on demand recently (in canada)
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 27 April 2017 19:59 (seven years ago) link
yea all i see are the 6 hbo episodes
― marcos, Thursday, 27 April 2017 20:02 (seven years ago) link
Still on HBO Go under 'High Maintenance Web Series'
― El Tuomasbot (milo z), Thursday, 27 April 2017 21:38 (seven years ago) link
(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
― marcos, Friday, 2 June 2017 17:29 (six years ago) link
just listened to the two dope queens episode with ben sinclair. he is a very charming dude.
― mizzell, Friday, 2 June 2017 19:57 (six years ago) link
https://www.thecut.com/2018/01/profile-katja-blichfeld-of-high-maintenance.html
― johnny crunch, Monday, 15 January 2018 23:12 (six years ago) link
huh. extra curious to see these first episodes now.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 04:44 (six years ago) link
Dire article.
― Luna Schlosser, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 11:12 (six years ago) link
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.
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.
― Luna Schlosser, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 13:46 (six years ago) link
not necessarily arguing that, extra curious to see what a diversified (? at least more than just these two) writing room does for the show
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 15:48 (six years ago) link
― 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
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 18:01 (six years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 18:04 (six years ago) link
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.
― gr8080, Wednesday, 17 January 2018 22:43 (six years ago) link
crossing my fingers. I need this right now!
― mh, Wednesday, 17 January 2018 23:00 (six years ago) link
Yay! I love this show. That interview/hagiographic puff-piece, though...
― DJI, Wednesday, 17 January 2018 23:44 (six years ago) link
ben sinclair was super chill about his split with his ex wife on colbert, seems like a good guy
― kolakube (Ross), Thursday, 18 January 2018 04:23 (six years ago) link
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
― mh, Thursday, 18 January 2018 05:14 (six years ago) link
Money moves mountains tho
― kolakube (Ross), Thursday, 18 January 2018 05:16 (six years ago) link
What is "propaganda for egg-freezing"?
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 18 January 2018 06:19 (six years ago) link
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTixIvhRTFcp46VRzAsYbkElEyJZq04Pz6buHuxIlJ0qynpn-5V
― Agharta Christie (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 18 January 2018 10:37 (six years ago) link
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
― mh, Thursday, 18 January 2018 14:50 (six years ago) link
yeah, i have family that did that shit; it's expensive and painful and frustrating and ultimately not super likely to be useful
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 18 January 2018 14:52 (six years ago) link
i understand what egg-freezing is, my partner and i have done it. i'm not sure why "propaganda".
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 18 January 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link
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.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 18 January 2018 16:36 (six years ago) link
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.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 18 January 2018 16:38 (six years ago) link
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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― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 18 January 2018 22:02 (six years ago) link
Premieres tonight
― kolakube (Ross), Friday, 19 January 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link
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.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 19 January 2018 22:01 (six years ago) link
yeah, cruel was p good word for the last opener. fingers crossed for this season
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Sunday, 21 January 2018 01:55 (six years ago) link
new one is kind of o_O
― mh, Sunday, 21 January 2018 01:58 (six years ago) link
yeah I thought it was pretty bad
― iatee, Sunday, 21 January 2018 03:05 (six years ago) link
the best part of the show is a little dip into someone's life around the time the guy passes through
this one tried to make the general atmosphere of NYC on a bad day the main character, had a really one-note "whoa gross" joke, and then filled the gap with the personal doings of the guy which weren't all that well-done
the weird nightmare was a little too something
― mh, Sunday, 21 January 2018 03:44 (six years ago) link
at least the web-series is very good
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Sunday, 21 January 2018 06:00 (six years ago) link
mh otm but it still felt good to be back
― Dat Login was the dname u doofus (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 21 January 2018 06:09 (six years ago) link
yeah, this is still a welcome return, even in the ongoing diminishing returns
I do laugh whenever Homeless Heidi shows up, guiltily
― mh, Sunday, 21 January 2018 16:07 (six years ago) link
That was ok, I enjoyed the vibe even if several moments were eye-rolling.
I'll never get tired of watching Ben Sinclair's reaction shots.
I assume non-white actors get super bored of playing the "dignified but unknowable" role
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 21 January 2018 19:05 (six years ago) link
Y'all are such whiners. I loved the premiere! Really captured the everything's-going-to-shit-but-it's-affecting-me-mostly-only-tangentially thing that's happening right now. The threesome twist was revealed perfectly, and even the bit with the balloon was done well (I thought). I laughed, I teared up, what else do you want, jackels?
― DJI, Sunday, 21 January 2018 19:56 (six years ago) link
i also loved the premiere; thought the "omg, the worst thing is happening right now" moment was a dead on hit as to what NYC felt like in the days after trump was elected... i saw multiple people crying in the streets. I think i cried in the streets!
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Sunday, 21 January 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
it didn't seem believable that the type of people who would be so distraught by trump winning would also spend election night off the grid having some sex party
― iatee, Sunday, 21 January 2018 21:15 (six years ago) link
well that is (at least one of the reasons) why they didn't make it about the election but instead made it LOOMING HORRIBLE THING THAT HAS HAPPENED
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Sunday, 21 January 2018 21:16 (six years ago) link
okay, but also it was totally about the election, so
― iatee, Sunday, 21 January 2018 21:21 (six years ago) link
It wasn't about the election. Something completely unexpected happened overnight.
― DJI, Sunday, 21 January 2018 21:51 (six years ago) link
it wasn’t specifically about the election but... it was about the election
― mh, Sunday, 21 January 2018 22:07 (six years ago) link
Thought this was fairly solid. DJI OTM about the threesome twist, well executed. Only complaint here is the leaden and clumsy dialogue which takes me out of it, characters feeling like one-note stereotypes (the brief conspiracy guy scene where he mentions elon musk).
― kolakube (Ross), Sunday, 21 January 2018 22:17 (six years ago) link
they left the traumatic event vague for a reason, and it was clear that it was related to trump, but it wasn't about the election, imo. it could be all sorts of things: trump using a nuclear bomb, an drone strike killing even more civilians than they commonly do, trump going full on fascist and ordering a special force to murder a bunch of US citizens, etc.
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 21 January 2018 22:55 (six years ago) link
Karl otm
― kolakube (Ross), Sunday, 21 January 2018 23:01 (six years ago) link
Is "the guy" rich?
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 22 January 2018 01:17 (six years ago) link
he makes a pretty decent living indicating he’s skirting the line between dealer and distributor but his overhead appears low
― mh, Monday, 22 January 2018 02:25 (six years ago) link
this show is good but yes I want jackals
― Empire Burl Ives (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 22 January 2018 04:12 (six years ago) link
it was ok
― marcos, Monday, 22 January 2018 21:11 (six years ago) link
about as good as some of the other episodes last season. it does suffer a little from having to fill the time slot imo
balloon moment was a little too feel-good we-are-all-in-this-together
― marcos, Monday, 22 January 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link
last ep was heavy handed
― kolakube (Ross), Monday, 29 January 2018 05:45 (six years ago) link
liked keyboard lady returning
― mh, Monday, 29 January 2018 15:01 (six years ago) link
second half felt like the web series again. idk maybe because they rehashed the plot line w/ the mouse more or less
― marcos, Monday, 29 January 2018 20:27 (six years ago) link
i liked that they had suburban boomers at the center of a storyline (in theory more than practice, unfortch)
― gr8080, Monday, 29 January 2018 20:33 (six years ago) link
last ep was solid - drug dealer woes about multiple visits to the same person in one day were OTM as well
― kolakube (Ross), Sunday, 4 February 2018 02:46 (six years ago) link
Show feels more and more like Slacker with every passing ep, which is a welcome feeling to me.
― Position Position, Sunday, 4 February 2018 03:02 (six years ago) link
balloon moment = coke ad
― 龜, Sunday, 4 February 2018 03:13 (six years ago) link
i didn't have any problem w that scene, it felt authentic...life in the city and on the subway includes these occasional nice moments
― Dumpster Fire Walk With Me (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 4 February 2018 17:36 (six years ago) link
last one was really good!
― marcos, Monday, 12 February 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link
was super happy to see Machine on there
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 12 February 2018 21:26 (six years ago) link
yeah this was good
― kolakube (Ross), Monday, 12 February 2018 22:15 (six years ago) link
dude's friendship with the guy in this ep was great
― kolakube (Ross), Monday, 12 February 2018 22:28 (six years ago) link
baruch's dancing style was inspirational
― mh, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 00:49 (six years ago) link
i think he gave that chick a drink he found in the men's room, ew
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 00:52 (six years ago) link
lol yes, I was thinking how bad that was, but dude's broke and uh... yeah I'll ignore that happened
― mh, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 00:54 (six years ago) link
show is transforming in to something kind of new and different
i still don't like it as much as the best web series eps, but i still like it
― gr8080, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 17:54 (six years ago) link
they did a great job of capturing the tedious yet anxious dread of sitting in the ER triage area
― mh, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 17:57 (six years ago) link
they really did
― marcos, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 17:58 (six years ago) link
yeah i liked the last episode a lot, best of season so far imo
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 18:07 (six years ago) link
does anyone else worry w/that IV drip of painkillers? like the way he refused it at first...i wonder if he has a history?
I think it was more that he figured he'd just vape up discreetly, but that ended up actually ramping up his anxiety. Peeling up the bandage to take a peek sure didn't help.
― mh, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 19:44 (six years ago) link
tbh opioids freak me out, the addictive potential is scray
― marcos, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link
*scary
I think the potential's there, it's mostly chronic pain management where you get in trouble
I've been prescribed them three times (wisdom tooth removal, abscess surgery, broken wrist) and never felt the need to continue after my prescription ran out because the pain was gone or manageable. the first two were vicodin and the last was percocet, though, and wow there's a difference. hospital would probably just be a morphine drip
― mh, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 19:51 (six years ago) link
appreciated how he was goofy as heck on the combination, it was well-acted
― mh, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 19:52 (six years ago) link
Beruch episode might be my all time fave
― kolakube (Ross), Friday, 23 February 2018 20:29 (six years ago) link
yea agreed it's one of the best ones
― marcos, Friday, 23 February 2018 22:24 (six years ago) link
nice use of weyes blood in the last one (w drugdealer)
― kolakube (Ross), Saturday, 24 February 2018 01:35 (six years ago) link
i think this season is better than all the others
― marcos, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 15:06 (six years ago) link
lol i've been watching this on showtime since it started and had no idea it was a web series before, totally missed this thread for 4 years .
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 15:10 (six years ago) link
this last episode was greati had some unfortunately shrooms experiences in college, one involved being at the mall while my roommate and her friend from high school went shopping at the gapanyway it captured some of the terror of being on shrooms in the wrong environment
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 15:28 (six years ago) link
i liked when he said "you get to see inside the apartments, that's the best part" bc i think i would agree, w/ this show in general i like the very real glimpses into other folks' lives & spaces
― marcos, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 18:29 (six years ago) link
i grinned so big at that line and his delivery of it
― gr8080, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 18:36 (six years ago) link
if we stuck with his stand-in the show would be... stoners in cars buying weed
― mh, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 18:36 (six years ago) link
also lol @ "janky clown" setup
― gr8080, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 18:37 (six years ago) link
That was great, also I was losing it at the fountain scene & the end slo-mo dancing it front of it.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 18:12 (six years ago) link
"What happened?"
"People didn't want these clothes anymore?"
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 18:15 (six years ago) link
Also appreciated the nod to their audience being mostly people with their parents' HBO Go passwords. Like me. My mother-in-law recently cancelled her cable but HBO Go is still mysteriously working, although I assume it will stop any day now.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 18:17 (six years ago) link
for some reason I didn't even register the irony at the time, even though I was watching the episode on HBO Go!
― mh, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:04 (six years ago) link
My favourite show on television, hard to find something else which feels so relevant atm
― kolakube (Ross), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 21:37 (six years ago) link
I like how organic things seem. A lot of shows trying to catch the same vibe try too hard to cram in references to lifestyle trends or add drama and HM just seems like ~lyfe~
― mh, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 21:51 (six years ago) link
absolutely, mh.
wtf was with his ex stealing his pens and being a general fiend? made me wonder if pot co-dependency was a crutch in their relationship
― kolakube (Ross), Saturday, 3 March 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
sometimes this show gives me #fomo
― marcos, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 20:41 (six years ago) link
Last episode was golden. Definite tear recipe
― kolakube (Ross), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 03:22 (six years ago) link
when the last EP started it felt like a black mirror redux
― tinnitus the night (Ross), Saturday, 17 March 2018 16:11 (six years ago) link
this season was really good, i think it maybe fell off slightly after some of the peaks mid-season but all in all i thought it was way better than the vimeo subscriptions series and the first hbo season
― marcos, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 18:36 (six years ago) link
captured that open-ended relaxed festiveness of eclipse day 2017 really well
did I miss where beth had ghosted on him? things were all askew for me since I watched season 1, then almost all of season 2, then the web series, then the last two episodes of season 2, so i got some things totally out of order.
― akm, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 18:43 (six years ago) link
Is Beth the dudes ex? They split in season 1 finale iirc
― tinnitus the night (Ross), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 19:35 (six years ago) link
yeah I guess I just forgot...the last one I clearly remember is when she walked the dog
― akm, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 22:03 (six years ago) link
I was not down with the internet addiction guy's apartment burning down as the punchline, wtf.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 20:03 (six years ago) link
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
― gr8080, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 21:53 (six years ago) link
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.
― akm, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 23:46 (six years ago) link
^ absolutely. Everyone is keeping on
― tinnitus the night (Ross), Thursday, 29 March 2018 00:05 (six years ago) link
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
― Dan I., Thursday, 29 March 2018 02:05 (six years ago) link
(sorry, kind of apropos of nothing, need to catch up on this show, haven't tuned in since the web series)
― Dan I., Thursday, 29 March 2018 02:07 (six years ago) link
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
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 1 April 2018 13:49 (six years ago) link
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.
― well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Sunday, 1 April 2018 14:44 (six years ago) link
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
― Eris (Ross), Sunday, 1 April 2018 16:05 (six years ago) link
even when someone's a jerk, the plot never really dwells on it. some people are jerks, who cares!
― mh, Sunday, 1 April 2018 16:55 (six years ago) link
this show is underrated
― Οὖτις, Monday, 21 January 2019 19:44 (five years ago) link
i thought this most recent season was great and echo the last few posts itt
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Monday, 21 January 2019 19:50 (five years ago) link
great first episode; big fan of Erin Markey and glad to see her get to do an understated turn in the b plot
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 21 January 2019 21:05 (five years ago) link
luis "bronx obama" ortiz
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 18:20 (five years ago) link
Jen Harris! Catherine Cohen! They're spotlighting a whole buncha downtown weirdo artists that I love!Show has been very good so far.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 18:28 (five years ago) link
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
― marcos, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 19:02 (five years ago) link
I'm finding that i prefer episodes that are quite the guy heavy.
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 19:53 (five years ago) link
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.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 20:33 (five years ago) link
"breathwork" is a terrible episode
― marcos, Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
yeah i thought it sucked.
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:40 (five years ago) link
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!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:55 (five years ago) link
past couple weeks have been next level great IMO.
― akm, Saturday, 16 March 2019 14:52 (five years ago) link
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.
― akm, Saturday, 16 March 2019 15:14 (five years ago) link
― akm, Saturday, March 16, 2019 10:52 AM (thirty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
agree totally
― marcos, Saturday, 16 March 2019 15:31 (five years ago) link
Phew : https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/hbo-s-high-maintenance-renewed-season-4-1195721
― DJI, Thursday, 21 March 2019 05:55 (five years ago) link
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.
― goole, Sunday, 5 May 2019 04:55 (four years ago) link
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.
― jaymc, Thursday, 30 January 2020 14:35 (four years ago) link
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!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 31 January 2020 14:28 (four years ago) link
New episode was great!
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 01:11 (four years ago) link
Oh this started up again? Excellent
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 01:19 (four years ago) link
I think they have the best casting of any show on TV. So many fun characters!
― DJI, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 01:29 (four years ago) link
Larry Owens was outrageously good.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 04:17 (four years ago) link
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
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 13 February 2020 16:26 (four years ago) link
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.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 13 February 2020 16:55 (four years ago) link
The Guy's name is Rufus!
― jaymc, Saturday, 4 April 2020 21:54 (four years ago) link
this season has been pretty good
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 4 April 2020 21:55 (four years ago) link
pretty sure his name is Uncle Rufus
― wmlynch, Saturday, 4 April 2020 22:27 (four years ago) link
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?
― akm, Sunday, 5 April 2020 16:23 (four years ago) link
It's Cosmo Rufus
(I haven't actually been able to watch this season past the first few, our HBO Go plug was disconnected)
― change display name (Jordan), Sunday, 5 April 2020 18:29 (four years ago) link
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
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Sunday, 20 September 2020 06:17 (three years ago) link
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.
― Luna Schlosser, Sunday, 13 December 2020 23:09 (three years ago) link
Cashed.https://tvline.com/2021/01/14/high-maintenance-not-returning-for-season-5-hbo/
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 16 January 2021 01:46 (three years ago) link
― John Wesley Glasscock (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 16 January 2021 01:48 (three years ago) link
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.
― Luna Schlosser, Saturday, 16 January 2021 02:40 (three years ago) link
a shame cause they're perfectly suited to do a pandemic season
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Saturday, 16 January 2021 03:41 (three years ago) link
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 :(
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Saturday, 16 January 2021 04:45 (three years ago) link
Yeah I wanted more
― Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 16 January 2021 09:54 (three years ago) link
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.
― Jimi Buffett (PBKR), Saturday, 16 January 2021 15:10 (three years ago) link
Bummer. Even when it wasn’t at its best this show had more love of humanity in it than any other.
― DJI, Saturday, 16 January 2021 16:39 (three years ago) link
It'd be cool if they did a few final 5 - 10 minute web episodes just for the fun of it to mark the end. It'd be good to see life going on- despite the pandemic - for Chad, the asexual (but not romantic) magician, the Ditmas Park couple etc.
― Luna Schlosser, Saturday, 16 January 2021 17:06 (three years ago) link
Aww I like s3
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Saturday, 16 January 2021 17:54 (three years ago) link
I can't remember at all which seasons are which with this show, seems like a weird one to have strong season-ranking opinions about to me given the lack of any arcs. Obvs the web series is distinct, though even there the transition to broadcast hasn't been that jarring on second watch, and there are things in the web series I'd misremembered as happening later, like his niece visiting
― rob, Saturday, 16 January 2021 18:26 (three years ago) link
I liked that most of the actors in this show, you'd never see on other shows, and it's easier to slip into buying the "slice of life"-iness of it,but then I started noticing some actors in other shows...
the john wilson show has sort of taken up that mantle.
― Philip Nunez, Saturday, 16 January 2021 18:45 (three years ago) link
yeah I was really hoping for a pandemic season of this show. disappointing, but at least it sounds like they decided not to continue, rather than getting the carpet yanked from under them. I know they also split up quite a while ago so who knows, maybe that working relationship wasn't so great anymore.
― akm, Saturday, 16 January 2021 19:14 (three years ago) link
i take this announcement as a sign that Blichfeld and Sinclair are now ready to fully uncouple and run their own directions. could definitely see them doing aa special in a few years, no reason not to do a covid flashback then.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 16 January 2021 19:56 (three years ago) link
― rob, Saturday, January 16, 2021 12:26 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
i get this but also i just remember not enjoying s1 at all (first adaption to HBO, felt uneven), then they caught a rhythm and the show developed, and then 4 kinda falls off IMO, it felt like a pretty natural arc to me
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Sunday, 17 January 2021 20:20 (three years ago) link
Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2020 season is nominated in the 2020 ILX TV poll:
ILX's Best Television of 2020 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 29, 2021
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 (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 January 2021 19:41 (three years ago) link
funny-sad occurrence re: media etc: i got rid of my HBONow because i was sick of flipping thru menus and not watching anything, and none of their new shows were hooking me
i got Mubi in an attempt to be more intentional about how i spend my couch time. i just watched The Cruise from 98, about Timothy Speed Levitch as a tour guide, and *now* i get this extra resonance for having him appear in and narrate the S3 finale (and the title duh) and i can't go back to watch it! i can barely find any commentary about it, nothing has made it to youtube except the trailer
― goole, Monday, 25 January 2021 03:44 (three years ago) link
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Sunday, January 17, 2021 3:20 PM (one week ago)
Having moved on to S2, I have to concede that S1 is indeed messy. It's definitely not entirely a wash: Grandpa, Tick, and Ex are good imo. But the first two eps are half good/half not, and "Selfie" is all meh. So yeah if you were coming into that having followed the webseries, I can see being pretty disappointed.
Plus then in S2 they seem to have figured out how to use the longer running time to much better effect compared to S1's tendency to simply combine two short segments. I watched "Derech" last night and the way it sort of floats from story to story is so impressive; "Globo" also does this trick extremely well.
― rob, Saturday, 30 January 2021 19:36 (three years ago) link
Series 1: meh episodes - Meth(od), Selfie
Series 2: meh episodes -Ghost, goalz
Series 3: meh episodes -Craig, Proxy
Series 4 - meh episodes -Voir Dire, Backflash, Screen, Adelante, Hand, Soup.
Looking at the list of episodes, the first 3 series are pretty evenly balanced - though I think the highs of the good episodes in series 2 and 3 are good.Series 4 was a dramatic falling off - with over half the episodes being poor.
Not enough discussion of series 4 though. I was wondering if anyone has any experience of the ketamine nasal spray (esketamine) featured in 'Solo'?
― Luna Schlosser, Saturday, 30 January 2021 20:34 (three years ago) link
* highs of the good episodes in series 2 and 3 are greater.
― Luna Schlosser, Saturday, 30 January 2021 20:37 (three years ago) link
I get why one wouldn't, but I actually like the hyper-annoying friend couple in Meth(od). The segment with the british actors pretending to be american meatheads falls flat though, that should have been a 2 minute throwaway joke at most. And then I really don't like the sex party / bickering couple segment in Museebat, which I think uniquely and distractingly features three more-recognizable-than-usual actors.
I'll have to check the rest of your list once I catch up rewatching.
― rob, Saturday, 30 January 2021 21:31 (three years ago) link
I should probably cut Meth(od) some slack as having some good qualities , but it's only episode I skipped when I rewatched the whole collection over Xmas as I just couldn't get past the beginning.. And it was such a disappointment as HBO opener.
― Luna Schlosser, Sunday, 31 January 2021 20:37 (three years ago) link
def a hugely perplexing decision to launch the series with that episode, the webseries is mostly warm and inviting and even the part I do like is HM at its most acidic
― rob, Sunday, 31 January 2021 20:42 (three years ago) link
the part *of Meth)od)*
Really miss this show sometimes
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Friday, 12 May 2023 06:04 (eleven months ago) link