As two people who came out “later in life” — at 37 and 21, respectively — what do you see when you look at so many young people today who come out in their teens or earlier, or some who are never in the closet at all? It was working together that gave us joy and excitement. It can take a lifetime.”. New episodes of High Maintenance are available at highmaintenance.tv. HBO just announced that the docu, If you binged the stranger-than-fiction true crime Netflix docuseries The Tiger King, then you may have a lot of ideas for Halloween. Katja Blichfeld, who co-created High Maintenance with ex-husband Ben Sinclair, talks about anxiety, marijuana, coming out as a lesbian at 37, her new girlf Sinclair and Blichfeld were having drinks at a Brooklyn restaurant ahead of a talk they were giving at BAM and discussing the new episodes, which have a more somber tone than the previous ones. “Like I couldn’t watch The Smurfs,” she explains, “because of witchcraft and sorcery.” She spent a couple of semesters at Long Beach City College, dropped out, moved to Chicago, worked in admin at a university, and then, in 2004, followed a relationship that had begun on Friendster to New York. She is known for co-creating and directing High Maintenance, a Vimeo web series and HBO television series. After all, establishing Ben’s acting career was part of what we’d originally set out to do. © 2020 Condé Nast. It’s clear that the more broadly it’s decriminalized, the better. Tattoos are a corny and obvious way to announce an inner transformation, but like many corny and obvious things, they are also profound and effective. “She’ll be the only one who’ll notice an extra’s socks and say ‘They’re wrong for this neighborhood,’” he says. I wish I had better answers. And it does feel like this moment of intense scrutiny and critique of policing and the criminal justice system could help move that needle forward. Katja Blichfeld as told to Lauren Mechlin. And the work is never done. One of the big draws of High Maintenance is the mix of both undiscovered and recognizable faces. I believed my indiscretion was a mistake and blamed too many margaritas. The tattoo of her mother’s name in script on her deltoid ends up exactly how she wanted it, too. Katja: Well, I naively used to think that when weed became decriminalized, people would be let out of their weed-related prison sentences, but that’s not how it works! Russell: Do the work. Read more from our honorees here, and check out the full list of winners here. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated 1/1/20) and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (updated 1/1/20) and Your California Privacy Rights. In Grand Army’s pilot, there’s a bomb — that is, a literal one. Once I left high school, it became clear to me that people would accept my attraction to women so long as I presented it as a fetish, a penchant for the forbidden. This season is designed to end in a way that would be a satisfying series finale, if need be — getting picked up again is always a crapshoot. “The charms that work on others count for nothing in that devastatingly well-lit back alley where one keeps assignations with oneself: No winning smiles will do here.” In my case, however, I found ways, over and over again, to fool myself. The ability to see potential — that semi-psychic way of assessing people at a glance — is a strength Katja shares. The men I dated—even a man I was married to for a blink during my early 20s—took my predilection in stride. I was 21 and hadn’t seen a lot of myself represented at that age in life. Within months, we were sharing a Brooklyn apartment, living in a blissful cloud of pot smoke and domesticity. Co-creator/writer/director of the series High Maintenance. My suspicions grew at the end of the trip, when I went out to dinner with a straight, married woman I follow on Instagram. “We were talking the other day and I thought to myself, ‘oh, this is where we met, over AIM.’ It was my first adult relationship in New York where I missed someone. That makes me lighter. It wasn’t just my stomach. Sometimes we would take camping trips and have a magical time, only to find ourselves fighting again back home. My story—the one I’d been telling myself—was becoming ridiculous. She’s blasé about the medium — she says she feels self-conscious and hates that she keeps track of what gets more likes — but she must know that her account is engrossing. For one thing, I don’t believe I would ever again cast straight actors to play queer. NEW YORK, Sept. 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Stareable Fest 2020, the third annual premier web series and indie TV festival, announces Katja Blichfeld, from HBO's High Maintenance series, will be She’s literally doing it all. “Just that in and of itself – that's a huge thing.