Despite the consistent presence of weed,High Maintenanceis not a stoner comedy.
Is it an anthology meant to proselytize the importance of being high?
Is it a study of one man, a hash-happy hero, who satisfies the marijuana-hungry masses?
Credit: Craig Blankenhorn
Its not quite any of those.
Its all thanks to the characters Blichfeld and Sinclair have chosen to observe.
In one, a man hilariously joins a meth support group to escape an overbearing friend.
In another, a young woman tries to balance her familys conservative values with her itch for freedom.
Sometimes, the episodes star isnt even human: One particularly affecting installment follows a dog.
To say more would spoil the surprise.
And thereareplenty of surprises in these brief portraits.
(Keep an eye out for adult coloring books, the set ofGirls, and sigh vaping.)
