High Maintenance returns
April 1, 2014 7:14 PM Subscribe
After a hiatus, the smart, sweet, sharp, and often surprising webseries High Maintenance returned in past months with three new episodes.
Qasim
Matilda
Rachel
previously
Qasim
Matilda
Rachel
previously
I know that some people have done quite well for themselves with web series, but I still can't help but smile and think "Aww, that's cute" whenever I hear about an actor or writer friend participating in one. Too often they look and sound super amateurish and while they are probably a great experience for the people involved, they aren't always that much fun to watch.
High Maintenance is different. It isn't so much a web series as it is a series that happens to be on the web. I am always excited to see the next thing Ben and Katja come up with because it keeps on getting better and better.
posted by Spiced Out Calvin Coolidge at 7:34 PM on April 1, 2014
High Maintenance is different. It isn't so much a web series as it is a series that happens to be on the web. I am always excited to see the next thing Ben and Katja come up with because it keeps on getting better and better.
posted by Spiced Out Calvin Coolidge at 7:34 PM on April 1, 2014
Thank you for reminding me about this series. Each episode has been wonderful and human and wonderfully human.
posted by sendai sleep master at 7:43 PM on April 1, 2014
posted by sendai sleep master at 7:43 PM on April 1, 2014
This show is great. Don't watch it. All of the actors are great. Don't see it. Great characterization. Don't mind it.
please enjoy a very, very good show
posted by coolxcool=rad at 8:47 PM on April 1, 2014
please enjoy a very, very good show
posted by coolxcool=rad at 8:47 PM on April 1, 2014
This has been one of my favorite things for ages. I still don't understand how it hasn't gotten picked up by some network yet. I don't really know how it would work in a longer format, but it's just that good. I haven't shown it to a single person who didn't love it.
Along with broad city and rick and morty, this is one of the coolest shows to come out in a couple years.
posted by emptythought at 8:58 PM on April 1, 2014 [1 favorite]
Along with broad city and rick and morty, this is one of the coolest shows to come out in a couple years.
posted by emptythought at 8:58 PM on April 1, 2014 [1 favorite]
Wow - this is great. I shouldn't be surprised at how many well-done shows there are on the web. My family's favorite is Wish It, Inc. Really high production values, and hardly any views (and also not on the blue, yet). I looked for, but also couldn't find mention of Standard Action, which recently Kickstarted its third season. Good stuff.
posted by dylanjames at 9:52 PM on April 1, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by dylanjames at 9:52 PM on April 1, 2014 [1 favorite]
A network would demand a regular cast of characters beyond the one guy
Oh man, but I really think I could watch an entire series based on the Matilda episode with him and his niece. All of that was gold.
posted by windbox at 10:05 PM on April 1, 2014 [1 favorite]
Oh man, but I really think I could watch an entire series based on the Matilda episode with him and his niece. All of that was gold.
posted by windbox at 10:05 PM on April 1, 2014 [1 favorite]
There actually are a few recurring characters, and it's not totally encapsulated from episode to episode. Heidi shows up as a friend of the girl the comedian was with(and maybe even again after that?), and in the matilda episode they revisit the "Appalachian white trash" lady and her boyfriend/husband who were renting to people on airBNB.
It's not like there's a big recurring cast, but they do revisit things and bring people back. There's at least a little bit of continuity. Not to discredit any of your points as to why a network wouldn't want it the way it is, but just pointing that out.
posted by emptythought at 1:21 AM on April 2, 2014
It's not like there's a big recurring cast, but they do revisit things and bring people back. There's at least a little bit of continuity. Not to discredit any of your points as to why a network wouldn't want it the way it is, but just pointing that out.
posted by emptythought at 1:21 AM on April 2, 2014
I love this show.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 4:15 AM on April 2, 2014
posted by Potomac Avenue at 4:15 AM on April 2, 2014
I too love this series. It manages so much characterization with such subtlety. And the main character plays such a great everyman. Some of the best moments happen when he does something distinctive, like stay over after making a delivery.
posted by So You're Saying These Are Pants? at 6:20 AM on April 2, 2014
posted by So You're Saying These Are Pants? at 6:20 AM on April 2, 2014
Ben and Katja are friends of mine, excellent people, and I'm glad to see them on the blue again.
posted by lazaruslong at 7:42 PM on April 2, 2014
posted by lazaruslong at 7:42 PM on April 2, 2014
Holy shit, the main character in "Rachel" was played by the same actor that played Matthew Crawley on Downton Abbey!
posted by joethefob at 11:15 PM on April 5, 2014
posted by joethefob at 11:15 PM on April 5, 2014
I just watched the entire series for the first time last night (in the wrong order, because Vimeo upload dates are LIES.) The entire set is so sweet and so brilliant. I want this to continue and to continue being perfect.
posted by maudlin at 4:53 PM on April 20, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by maudlin at 4:53 PM on April 20, 2014 [1 favorite]
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