On HBO you can see the "premiere" of High Maintenance, a series that really started on the web and only now finds a place on television. It involves a New York City pot-dealer and many different stories along the way, including the dog's version of life. HBO has created six new episodes while also trying to keep the original feel of the show (here is a trailer).
Robert Lloyd from the Los Angeles Times wrote a positive review, stating:
You do not have to be a pot smokers to like it, I can personally attest. Although marijuana threads through the episodes, it is not the actual point of the show — which is human variety, haplessness and tenderness.
And tonight on Amazon you can see the six-part Fleabag, a popular series from Britain. Here is the story from Amazon (and trailer):
Fleabag is a hilarious and poignant window into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, grief-riddled woman, as she hurls herself at modern living in London. Award-winning playwright Phoebe Waller-Bridge writes and stars as Fleabag, an unfiltered woman trying to heal, while rejecting anyone who tries to help her and keeping up her bravado all along.
Alan Sepinwall in Hitfix states,
I came into the series expecting a raunchy black comedy, and got that, but with the added bonus of something achingly beautiful when it wanted to be.
We are only talking six episodes per series, so invest a little time this weekend for a solid reward.
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