How 'High Maintenance’ Creators Turned Their Web Series Into An HBO Hit

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4.6 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Ben Sinclair and Katja Blichfeld are the creators of the web-turned-HBO series High Maintenance. (Ben also plays “The Guy,” the show’s pot peddler.) On Nerdette, Katja and Ben talk about how the show has changed now that it’s an HBO production, why the simplest episodes are the most effective, and how they love to talk to strangers.

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0:06.1	watch them. Their television's longest scripted series and have zero reruns. Now let me tell you,
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0:33.7	Do you want to say your Greta? Should we do that just to really with people?
0:35.5	We should do that on April Fools, actually.
0:37.7	That'd be a lame April Fool's.
0:38.4	You think so?
0:38.7	Yeah.
0:39.8	You're rude.
0:41.6	Only our mothers would notice.
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0:51.5	And I'm Trisha Bobita.
0:54.1	And we are so happy to be back. This episode is going to be super fun.
0:55.8	We are talking this week with Kachia Blickfeld and Ben Sinclair. They are the creators of the beautiful show High Maintenance.
1:06.4	This is now an HBO show. It was a beloved web series. A scrappy little web series. And now there are six new episodes on HBO.
1:13.4	This show is a little difficult to describe because it's a little more like connected short stories than a TV show.
1:20.4	Think of it as each one being its own little movie with one character who weaves in and out of all of them, which is the guy, played by Ben Sinclair.
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