The Guy strikes up conversation with all kinds of New Yorkers
New York has been portrayed in the audiovisual medium more times than anyone would dare to count, but few with naturalness, sensitivity and freshness with which it is done in high-maintenance.
The HBO series recounts the adventures of TheGuy, "the uncle", a camel that it does not seem and that he spends his days touring the streets of the city by bicycle to deliver Mary home. With this, this witness always calm and peaceful it becomes our connecting link with the Big Apple, offering us a window through which we too can peer into the daily life of its inhabitants.
They are the ones who really star in the stories of this choral series that portrays the most current New York, the one that dictates to the rest of the world the path to follow. So, for example, we sneak into the house of a group of feminists preparing a demonstration, on the floor of a boy who never leaves home -commissions absolutely everything Internet - or in big parties that are held before go to work , in which, moreover, everyone has to behave as if he was a preschooler.
But there are many more who demand The Guy's service: couples who they just had a baby families of nudists, young nerds, hasidic jews who have abandoned their community... As in the capital of the world, everyone finds their place in the work of Katja Blichfeld and Ben Sinclair , New Yorkers who gave birth to High Maintenance in the form of web series in 2012.
The Guy bikes all over New York
those chapters of low budget from the beginning they fascinated the cable channel moguls, who took hold of them and have managed to preserve them in their conversion to half-hour episodes the simple and spontaneous tone of the series . The one that turns it into a product almost of atmosphere homemade, which has led it to be defined as " the least televised television program that exists".
for that lack of artifice, for those conversations that seem almost improvised and that they draw each character with sensitivity, tenderness and subtlety , it seems that we are the ones We ride the streets on Sinclair's bike also protagonist of the series.
Almost like a video clip, we slide down the asphalt leaving behind traffic lights, graffiti, organic stores, dialogues in spanglish, bars, street performers, neighborhoods that have become airbnb Colonies, immigrants who collect garbage. With our feet on the pedals, we go from north to south, From Manhattan to Queens, from the Bronx to Brooklyn, where The Guy has to stop, like we would, because the road is closed: they're filming an episode of **Girls.**
'High Maintenance' opens the door of the houses of New Yorkers