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 3×07 Review: “Dongle”
High Maintenance doesn’t often employ traditional visual metaphors, but this week we see two couples respectively facing towards and away from fireworks both literally and in their relationship, and t…
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 3×04 Review: “Breathwork”
High Maintenance has been stretching its comedy muscles a lot this season, and it continues the trend in its fourth week by wading into the waters of farce. “Breathwork” does not divide itself up in a…
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…