On its surface, the travails of the Guy (played by High Maintenance co-creator Ben Sinclair) is simply a comedy of errors about that particular urban fixture, the affable weed delivery guy, cycling between customers with comedy ensuing at every stop. | HBO

The Guy?s weed deliveries feature a parade of New Yorkers seeking calm and community Like, what?s it all about, man" While pondering the deeper meaning of High Maintenance, the web series-turned-HBO-darling about a bearded weed deliveryman, it?s hard not to imagine someone pacing inside a four-story Brooklyn walk-up, gulping from a vape pen and asking the big questions.
On its surface, the travails of the Guy (played by High Maintenance co-creator Ben Sinclair) is simply a comedy of errors about that particular urban fixture, the affable weed delivery guy, cycling between customers with comedy ensuing at every stop. Go a little deeper, however, and it?s clear the series, which was renewed for another season this spring, is about the city, an endless series of character studies that finds a narrative thread via everybody?s desire for a little calm and community in a chaotic cityscape.
?We were really interested in creating the most New York world possible,? production designer Almitra Corey previously told Curbed.
High Maintenance does an excellent job of getting out of Williamsburg and Lower Manhattan, getting past the fantasies of affordable and easily accessible city living found in previous Manhattan-cent...