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Adults Needs More Room to Grow
Where its genre predecessors were given network-size seasons to calibrate their quirks, this streaming-era hangout sitcom has no such luxury.
“You are the least interesting gays I have ever met!” she screams at the duo, Paul Baker (Jack Innanen) and Anton (Owen Thiele), before turning her sights on the former specifically: “You think ‘nice’ is a personality, when really it’s the absence of one.” The joke lands for the same reason the character doesn’t. There’s Samir, the high-strung straight man (comedically and sexually) whose parents own the roommates’ house; Anton, who is gay and cool; Issa, who is brash and sex positive; Billie, a spiraling former overachiever; and Paul Baker (nice). Again, it’s not unforgivable for a hangout sitcom to take time to land on a comedic ethos; Happy Endings took its entire first season to transition from the rom-com-style jokes of its Runaway Bride premise to the hyperreferential bit machine it eventually became.
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