The third season of High Maintenance may have been occasionally uneven in regards to tone or pacing, but I think one kernel of the season has always remained true and that is the determination of the …
High Maintenance 3×08 Review: “Proxy”
This week’s title, “Proxy,” is a perfectly succinct way of underlining the complex relationships on display tonight. Arturo and Adriana (Guillermo Diaz and Rosie Perez) buy themselves a proxy infant, …
High Maintenance 3×06 Review: “Fingerbutt”
This episode is named after an illusion that makes it appear as if you’re taking a photo through someone’s bare legs when in actuality you are just using your index finger. It is fitting, then, that t…
High Maintenance 3×05 Review: “Payday”
People say that it’s difficult to write about something you enjoy and I am feeling that acutely this week. “Payday” might end up being one of the best High Maintenance episodes because it’s an example…
High Maintenance 3×03 Review: “Blondie”
Last week, I noticed that the whole personality of High Maintenance, as it were, was split in half over the first two episodes. The first episode was mostly heartfelt vulnerability, the second was sur…
High Maintenance 3×02 Review: “Craig”
The first two episodes of High Maintenance’s third season are the first episodes to be directed solely by one of the co-creators and they ultimately end up splitting the show’s qualities into two dist…
High Maintenance Season 3 Premiere Review
After a year away—a blessedly shorter time apart than what separated seasons one and two—the third season of High Maintenance returns in comfortably familiar fashion. While the prior two HBO season pr…