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 High Maintenance is a Slice of Life comedy-drama anthology series that aired from 2012-2015 as a Web Original series on Vimeo, and from 2016 to 2020 as a TV series on HBO. The show follows a marijuana dealer known only as The Guy as he delivers his product to a wide assortment of characters in New York City. He usually figures in no more than a few minutes of each episode, with the remainder depicting vignettes about the characters he's delivered to. Occasionally The Guy will get an episode where he's more in focus than his clients but the show still avoids developing his character on the same level as them.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Despite the premise, the series mostly avoids Stoner Flick tropes, instead taking a much more realistic and intimate look at its very varied cast, and is primarily about the loneliness and struggle for connections that one can experience in a city as big and diverse as New York is.The series was quietly cancelled in early 2021 when co-creators Ben Sinclair and Katja Blichfeld decided to pursue other projects.
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 Ambiguous Situation: Many. The show forgoes expositional dialogue most of the time, and many premises aren't fully explained. Some episodes don't explain how characters sharing a story are related.
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 Alone in a Crowd
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 Alone in a Crowd: The show's ethos is about urban loneliness and that while New York City may be amazing, it is sometimes a city of floating pleasures and no real human connection. The Guy experiences this in "Googie" when he can't find anybody to take shrooms with. Anja, a young writer, experiences this in "Selfie" where she can't stay off social media but has no real friends. Exaggerated in "Solo" where AJ is shown to be extremely lonely, reaching out to his old exes and posting on social media to get attention.
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 A Day in the Limelight: The Guy usually gets one Once a Season.
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 As Himself: Most notably, Hannibal Buress is the main character in the web series episode "Jonathan" and appears in a cameo in the television series episode "Selfie." Brett Gelman, Kimiko Glenn, and Lena Dunham also appear in the latter.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })
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 Amicable Exes: The Guy and his ex-wife are on extremely good terms, as they are very friendly. Very much Truth in Television as co-creators Ben Sinclair and Katja Blichfeld divorced in-between the HBO series' first and second season but on very mutual terms and have remained friends since.
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