<i>High Maintenance</i>'s Barbed Take on Mass Mourning
The HBO comedy’s second season opened with an unnamed horror sending Brooklyn’s pot smokers into narcissism.
Everyone knows this dilemma, now. You wake up, check your phone, and find that something terrible has happened in the world. What do you do next? What are you allowed to do next? Go to work or call out? Self-medicate? Is it okay to meet friends for a drink? Is it insensitive to have sex? (Louis C.K.’s ever-more-infamous 9/11 joke comes to mind.) Can you try to profit from crisis? Can you ignore it? Should you do something?
Or is it odd to be thinking about yourself at all?
Ben Sinclair and Katja Blichfeld’s deeply humane observational comedy about a New York City pot dealer and his clients, grapples with these questions in “Globo,” the first episode of its second season on HBO.
