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Ben Sinclair

Ben Sinclair on High Maintenance.
Sep 30

Pop Psych: ‘High Maintenance’ Shows How Your Dealer is Raising Your Kids

As a therapist, there might not be any show currently running that I like more than HBO’s new comedy, High Maintenance.  I like it a lot as a regular Human, too, but it really shines in its willingness to show the private moments of conflict, both inter- and intra- personal, that we all like to hide when we’re outside our homes.  This is the kind of revelation I spend a lot of sessions waiting for, because it’s in these moments of quiet conflict that our deepest vulnerabilities appear.  And while High Maintenance tends to play these moments of extreme emotional confusion for honestly appropriate laughs, it also treats all its characters with the respect deserved by anyone willing to show up as their most vulnerable self.
By James Cole Abrams
Ben Sinclair and Katja Blichfeld, creators of High Maintenance.
Sep 26

‘High Maintenance’ Creators Thriving Under Controlled Conditions

I love High Maintenance. And not just because Ben Sinclair, the star and half the creative team behind the Vimeo web-series turned HBO pot comedy, was the first person I met at a campus party in college. (Standing in line for Jell-O shots with a guy who looks like an 18-year-old John Malkovich, reciting the opening lines of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...it's the kind of memory that sticks with a person.) It's as much about how well Sinclair and his wife/co-creator Katja Blichfeld, managed to create a world that keeps expanding outward, like the tendrils of a certain leafy green supplied by the show's protagonist (a weed delivery guy, appropriately named "Guy.") Over the course of its six seasons on Vimeo, a seemingly disparate series of interactions evolved into a meta-narrative of inter-connectivity between its subjects, who at first were only tied together by their dealer.
By Drew Grant
Clark Jones. (Photo: Dee Guerreros).
May 13

Funny Thing About Brooklyn

A dozen reasons why it’s the new epicenter of the comedy universe
By Drew Grant
Ben Sinclair and Katja Blichfeld at a High Maintenance panel. (Vimeo)
Apr 20

HBO Gets Into 4/20 Spirit With ‘High Maintenance’ Order

By Drew Grant
Ben Sinclair and Katja Blichfeld of High Maintenance.
Nov 13

‘High Maintenance’ Creators: It’s Not TV, It’s Art!

By Drew Grant
This is exactly what it looked like. (Photo credit: Patrick McMullan)
Oct 17

Everyone Must Get Stoned: High Times Celebrates the Big 4-0

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Ben Sinclair in High Maintenance. (Vimeo)
Jun 3

Watch This Now: ‘High Maintenance’ Munchies (Video)

By Drew Grant
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