It is funny in a superficial way, and being helped by a pleasant cast. One watch might be enough, no urges to rewatch - which is an indicator of "lucky it made it above the line, one time".
As with many new-ish sitcoms, the characters living in a self invented bubble really doesn't help. Either they are privileged, or they just hit the jackpot of cheap appartment and nice junk to furnish it, because no way they can afford the nice settings nowadays if they were real people about that age in a wobbly, unethical economy.
OK, what to do then - make only sitcoms set in ugly appartments, use only real cheap furniture and clothes?! Of course one cannot do that, but the gap is getting wider and wider and it is annoying. I cannit enjoy a comedy set in decorum that takes a lot of money to have, from my setting that is not beautiful, nor cheap. Because now you have to pay a lot for crap things that look ugly and break easily.
So sitcoms like Happy Endings are merely escapist, and do not hold well because they are built on a shaky premise, that ignores most of the current realities. If it had managed to "seal" its own bubble, oK, but it does not. Their lives branch out into the idea of them being "just some common young people, like you and your friends". And it is a lie.
Entertaining, but superficial.
As with many new-ish sitcoms, the characters living in a self invented bubble really doesn't help. Either they are privileged, or they just hit the jackpot of cheap appartment and nice junk to furnish it, because no way they can afford the nice settings nowadays if they were real people about that age in a wobbly, unethical economy.
OK, what to do then - make only sitcoms set in ugly appartments, use only real cheap furniture and clothes?! Of course one cannot do that, but the gap is getting wider and wider and it is annoying. I cannit enjoy a comedy set in decorum that takes a lot of money to have, from my setting that is not beautiful, nor cheap. Because now you have to pay a lot for crap things that look ugly and break easily.
So sitcoms like Happy Endings are merely escapist, and do not hold well because they are built on a shaky premise, that ignores most of the current realities. If it had managed to "seal" its own bubble, oK, but it does not. Their lives branch out into the idea of them being "just some common young people, like you and your friends". And it is a lie.
Entertaining, but superficial.