This is a great show about some quirky fictional but real-to-life New York characters. The short web series episodes were fantastic and left me wanting more. The one about Passover is hilarious! I died. On conversion to HBO the episodes became a half hour which was nice. At some point the husband/wife creators of the show, one who plays Guy the weed dealer and Katya who also played occasional characters - they split up and at that point I think there was a marked difference in the show's sensibility, I think for the better.
What is interesting to me is how some people got turned off by the "dog" episode. The first time I saw it I thought WTF. Totally out of left field. But after a while it occurred to me that this was some of the most creative moments I've ever seen on TV. I won't reveal what happens, but the shows context is that New Yorkers are by and large weird. You have to be to live there. NYC is weird. Brooklyn is really weird. Let's keep it that way.
The episode about the Indian girl was also very different. Like WTF. But when you try to understand what it's like to grow up in the rough & tumble city in a family of first generation immigrants, the episode makes perfect sense in context of the overall gist of the series.
Other comments that the characters constantly change are true, but several of them do make recurring appearances. Beth from the dog episode surprisingly shows up with a dog in a later episode. And my favorite - Homeless Heidi makes several appearances. She is an abhorrent mooch, she gets under my skin, but hers is a necessary id in a world of insecure self-aggrandizing hipsters. I see some of myself in these characters and they make me LMAO.
What is interesting to me is how some people got turned off by the "dog" episode. The first time I saw it I thought WTF. Totally out of left field. But after a while it occurred to me that this was some of the most creative moments I've ever seen on TV. I won't reveal what happens, but the shows context is that New Yorkers are by and large weird. You have to be to live there. NYC is weird. Brooklyn is really weird. Let's keep it that way.
The episode about the Indian girl was also very different. Like WTF. But when you try to understand what it's like to grow up in the rough & tumble city in a family of first generation immigrants, the episode makes perfect sense in context of the overall gist of the series.
Other comments that the characters constantly change are true, but several of them do make recurring appearances. Beth from the dog episode surprisingly shows up with a dog in a later episode. And my favorite - Homeless Heidi makes several appearances. She is an abhorrent mooch, she gets under my skin, but hers is a necessary id in a world of insecure self-aggrandizing hipsters. I see some of myself in these characters and they make me LMAO.