High Maintenance: Tick

October 8, 2016 8:11 PM - Season 7, Episode 4

Aging parents navigate their son's recent success and new lifestyle; The Guy delivers to a retired man who lives downstairs from his neurotic daughter and her family.

Quinn appeared in S01E01 "Stevie".

posted by hippybear (5 comments total)

I felt like there was a narrative excellence about this show that felt somehow dreamlike? Like how the stories were handed off to each other? I dunno. I found it fascinating. I watched the episode three times before making this post.
posted by hippybear at 8:13 PM on October 8, 2016 [2 favorites]

Another thing I thought this episode did really well was managing to capture both what it means to be really INTO a dance and be feeling on the outside of a dance and make both feel authentic.
posted by hippybear at 8:29 PM on October 8, 2016 [1 favorite]

This show continually blows me away.
posted by roger ackroyd at 8:59 PM on October 12, 2016

Like, on the one hand I was disappointed at not getting more of the Asian family's story. But on the other hand, the moving from one story to another was, like hippybear said, so well done that it was kind of beautiful to just get these glimpses and then move on.

And it only just dawned on me right now that both family stories here involve generational shifts between parents and their now-adult children.

So, are "day raves" a thing?
posted by dnash at 9:12 AM on October 13, 2016

So, are "day raves" a thing?

They do seem to be a thing.
posted by hippybear at 12:38 AM on October 14, 2016