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High Maintenance
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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.
