Since 1957, GQ has inspired men to look sharper and live smarter with its unparalleled coverage of style, culture, and beyond. He said, "Mr. Glass," he says, "This kind of thing, this annoys me so much. He tells her that they worked together at a cannery in Alaska. In this IndieWire exclusive, HBO has released the Season 4 trailer for its cannabis-based comedy-drama series “High Maintenance.” As the trailer promises, “The Guy is back to keep spirits high.”. With that said, Glass says that everybody mostly enjoyed the episode, and that Sinclair broadly captured the feeling of being in pitch meetings and edit sessions on This American Life. I understand it's really bad for your brain to do it a lot. In front of 1,500 people, I was talking about: "Here's a thing we cut from the show, and actually I was sort of glad we cut it. seasons were on Friday then Season Three went to Sunday night after TRUE DETECTIVE Season Three to complete an hour along with CRASHING. That's a good story.". But what's different is that we're very critical of certain ideas. GQ: So how did the appearance come about? Now, in its eighth season, “Homeland” puts Carrie back in Afghanistan after months of Russian confinement. She’s attractive by human standards, but you get the sense the dog would love anyone who let him out for that cherished hour. That you could just go through the world and not be anxious all the time about other people.". He says, "Having anxiety is what it is to be an adult. © 2020 Vox Media, LLC. The 2020 Oscars will forgo a host for the second year in a row, citing success from last year’s awards after Kevin Hart became enmeshed in controversy. How did you get to the structure? They get stoned together and she soon starts free-associating on tape about topics surrounding her piece: womanhood, gender roles, and how her mother’s choices in life were inevitably circumscribed by societal expectations. With Ben Sinclair, Jannette Anton, Ariel Ash, Abigail Bengson. An episode that feels like a tipping point delivers the first high-level casualty of the Fadda-Cannon conflict. It’s understandable that Sinclair feels an affinity with This American Life. As HBO describes the season: “With a new friend by his side, The Guy drops in on a variety of customers whose disparate lives, jobs, identities and circumstances reveal the human connection that we all seek. Everybody looked great.”) Though it might not be an entirely accurate depiction of what it’s like to work at This American Life, “Cycles” nevertheless depicts the radio show as a well-oiled machine, one that operates efficiently but requires a lot of supervision and hands-on engagement. And Cecil's like, "Oh my God, what? The new fourth season of High Maintenance, whose finale aired on HBO last Friday, is also wild to watch now — hinging as it does on chance encounters between New Yorkers and a weed dealer who isn't afraid to visit people's apartments without personal protective equipment. And he was interested in that. As upscale restaurants and bars replace the workaday businesses that used to make up the heart of Brooklyn neighborhoods — auto-­body shops, steam-­table joints, bars that don’t serve craft cocktails — there has been a concordant, or perhaps corrective, rise in what I’ve come to think of as bodega fetishism. I re-listened to This American Life weed episode from 2014, to see if you'd talked about this. Even correcting for the flexibility of its format — each episode follows the lives of different New Yorkers who all buy from the same nameless weed delivery guy — High Maintenance has a specific tone and structure that could easily devolve into self-parody. All rights reserved. And I was producing the very first piece I ever did with David Sedaris, who at the time was not a published writer. She invites him to a nightclub, where she quickly abandons him. This is the New York City my generation dreams of, an A.S.M.R. Today, Bushwick is, in fact, a place where a Vice journalist, a drag artist and a lapsed Hasid might all cross paths, but that’s a recent development. That part of it seemed very much of an outsider’s view of what it would be like to do a podcast.”. He's wrong. She must continue reliving these same days until she can figure out a way to escape. A drag artist who had been dancing at the same nightclub — and whose elaborate preparations the episode had also been following — happens to be in that same bodega, and luckily, just so happens to be a doctor. And a new series of New York vignettes is on HBO. When the show began in 2011, a decade after the Sept. 11 attacks, Carrie was investigating a POW-turned-al-Qaeda-agent, who later became her lover. This season also depicts a sign language interpreter, an artist who supports himself as a singing telegram, and, of course, The Guy's new one-eyed dog, FOMO. The Guy’s work brings him into the ­spaces where this loneliness is felt most acutely, and his easygoing charm allows his clients to open up to him, and to us. It paints a uniquely authentic portrait of New York with empathy and insight, telling amusing, surprising, sometimes moving and always poignant tales of denizens who are usually just faces on the crowded sidewalks of Brooklyn. It’s an extremely pleasing fantasy and a more noble one than those that preceded it — and, thanks in part to lucrative tax incentives for filming in New York, it hides in plain sight within hyper­realistic depictions of city life. What makes “High Maintenance” so intelligent is that it also documents the widespread isolation and alienation that make the fantasy so seductive. Now, starting on 02.07.20 it is back behind REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER. A conflict-averse episode centers on the revelation of a long-held secret that doesn’t have any consequences. Are there people who have this experience of feeling no anxiety, and just walking up to people and assuming that people might like them?’ ”, Thanks to our culture's obsession with Instagrammable experiences and self-optimization—and thanks to the success of. How do you get the sources to open up?" After they watched it, he called me back to express the staff’s criticism of how their process was depicted. I didn’t realize it was such a big deal.That piece of writing really turned out to be, for years, the single most popular thing that had ever been on NPR. Rent on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes and YouTube. He says, "Having anxiety is what it is to be an adult. We want to progress, but we also don’t want to be tied to this as our only mode of expression. He was just a guy who I had seen reading in the clubs and he had never published a book. The show's second HBO season premiered on January 19, 2018, and its third on January 20, 2019. He barks to greet them and is scolded by the man; neither owner knows a thing about the expansive inner lives of their pets, having been forced by city living to out­source their care. And who wants to think about all that while watching TV? “The thought that that’s what journalists do, or what we do, seemed just deeply wrong to them. For one thing, pitches of that nature undergo a stringent vetting process. In the new season, you meet a young artist who hires a sex worker for a “boyfriend experience” and finds him somewhat needy; there’s an asexual (but not aromantic) amateur magician, a recurring character, who must overcome his aversion to physical touch when he starts dating an intimacy coordinator. The dog falls madly in love with the woman who comes to walk him. Like many representations of New York on TV, it’s loosely predicated on the notion that people who live here are inherently more interesting than people who live in, say, Milwaukee. He says, "People come in here, and they say like, 'I wish I could have a life without anxiety.'