难以伺候第四季

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• “High Maintenance” has a wide ambit, and its vignette-based structure provides it the freedom to depict New York more accurately and fully than anything that has come before it. It’s a formula that has won it near-universal praise from TV critics, who admire the show for its roving empathy and nonjudgmental gaze. Here the city contains its multitudes: It’s a place rich with living history and lousy with self-centered 26-year-olds; a gentrified husk of its former self and yet still the promised land for countless newcomers from near and far; lonely and cacophonous, utterly predictable and endlessly surprising. But the show’s sharp eye for sociological detail and obsessive dedication to realism exist in tension with these moments of ostentatious surprise.
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第一集 Cycles

第四季回归，水准依旧，甚至高于往常。剧集温情，人们充满同情心，个体的生活有时混乱，但总能找到一个出口。

首播集的主题更像是“回收”，recycling。不仅是垃圾的回收（显然剧里也有人讨论过这个问题）。还包括人体、宠物和感情的回收。

从开场The Guy帮助整理花园开始，他们就谈到了一个死去的人将自己的遗体变成肥料洒在了花园里，这是对自己身体的一种回收再利用。

The Guy发现了一只独眼小狗，鬼使神差地决定带着狗狗到处跑。有了陪伴的Guy显得不那么孤独了。

雅拉是电台记者，在选题会议上人们先是吐槽了垃圾分类回收。接着雅拉讲了父母的故事，像极了一些中国的父母，他们离婚后瞒着女儿，准备女儿高中毕业后再告诉她，毕业典礼父亲发生意外，母亲在照顾父亲的过程中两人重生爱意。一种对感情的“回收”。

父母为了隐私，坚决不同意女儿把自己的事放在节目中。雅拉甚至在路上听到情侣吵架都会想要录下来。与男友的交谈中故意要激怒他，准备录下吵架，结果意外分手。似乎是父母关系的轮回。

电报歌手的生活透着艰辛、孤独、混乱、汗水，隐隐的还有一股子臭味，做着“史上最奇怪的回收工作”。他最后出现在雅拉的会议室，成为雅拉感情回收过程的见证，也终于因为自己的歌声赢得了赞美和掌声。“每天都不同，每天都很难，但总会有高光时刻。”

故事的三个主角都是胖子，原来两个胖子的性爱也可以这么美好，他们看上去也一样令人赏心悦目。这部剧以前出现的演员也是以平常人居多，不会让观众产生身材或外貌上的焦虑。非常体贴，是对影视行业的一种反叛，我个人对此非常赞赏。

电报歌手最后是和咖啡店的小哥一起了么？真好。电台节目最后的一番话，也说明了这部剧的精华：

Lots of stories that we do here on the radio is only by diving into the darkest feelings, the worst moments a person possibly goes through, that we get to anything worth hearing.

And what makes it kinda beautiful and it's a little corny, but it's true, is how random it is.

So often it's just like this random moment, you know? You see something on the curb that nobody wanted. You realize like, oh, that can be mine, like that is mine now.

Like this moment of random greatness pops into your day that was otherwise monumental garbage.

七首歌：

Saraabe Toe / Kourosh Yaghmaee【The Guy遇到狗狗，后来取名FOMO，fear of missing object】

Le debut de la fin / Domenique Dumont【雅拉讲述父母的故事】

I Wanted You / John Moods【FOMO在背包里欣赏纽约】

To the Boys / Molly Burch【雅拉在考虑父母的故事陷入僵局】

Five Troubles Mambo / Lizzy Mercier Descloux【电报唱歌业务】

This American Life / Salvia Plath【电报歌手终于“放松之后，点了咖啡和蛋糕】

Sans cesse, mon cheri / Domenique Dumont【电台采访电报歌手】

“Lots of stories that we do here on the radio is only by diving into the darkest feelings, the worst moments a person possibly goes through, that we get to anything worth hearing.

And what makes it kinda beautiful and it's a little corny, but it's true, is how random it is.

So often it's just like this random moment, you know? You see something on the curb that nobody wanted. You realize like, oh, that can be mine, like that is mine now.

Like this moment of random greatness pops into your day that was otherwise monumental garbage.

People going deep into the trash, hoping to pull out something good.”

美剧《难以伺候》第四季上线，怎么说呢，对我这种常年看韩剧的人来说，是一种惊喜，调调上很轻松，越看越停不下的那种，但是真要我说出这个剧哪里好了，我只能说尽量吧，以下我将谈谈对于这个剧的感受。

一、每个人生活的故事千差万别

有的人才跟男朋友你侬我侬，转而一分钟就闹分手，而有的人则是在片场做激情戏协调员。最给我印象深刻是一位黑人小哥，在为谋生中，四处奔波，他的工作接受他人的委托，在分手后，到女方的工作场所去唱歌求复合，或是唱歌祝愿生日快乐，他总是穿着非常夸张的造型，背着很多东西，奔走在街斗。记得他有一次唱的是kelly的 Stronger，唱的还不错。我觉得做这种职业的人需要勇气，因为常常被人拒绝的。

二、都市里的情情爱爱

我发现，爱情在所有国家的剧集里都是母题。人们总是困扰爱或不爱，或者是更进一步，之前我以为美国里到处有涉枪犯罪，人们一言不和就会掏枪，毕竟这几年新闻里美国经常有枪击事件发生。但是我看了这部剧后，觉得人家的城市或许跟中国差不多，都市里的男女都在纠结那点事。尤其是一个故事里，男主情感冷漠，女主则是一直很尊重他，很有丝丝的温暖。

三、意外的看到了丽贝卡.豪尔

第二集里，居然出现了丽贝卡这个大美人，虽然说她才出现了一分钟不到。但是还是很惊喜的，毕竟她长得充满了古典美，气质超棒，记得之前看过她演的一部电影，第一次知道她，真的魅力超凡。

好了，对于这部剧得观感就是这样了，现在疫情期间，全球疾病流行，难寻净土，愿世界都平安吧，早点度过！不然，对于我这种人，就算再爱看剧，只是用十分钟刷微博看热点都是难过。

悬念满满不拘一格的每一集 好看 尤其是前面一两集 有每一集 基本都是悬念满满 带入一个未知世界 也不总是惊喜 有时候确实错愕 不得其意 但是总体来讲 题材视角都非常出挑 很爱 男主已经变成见证人 男主还在SVU special victims 第十二季有个一分钟的客串 最近在看突然发现的

海水有尽头，月亮有圆缺，

人间有不足，但你在，就能弥补。海水有尽头，月亮有圆缺，

人间有不足，但你在，就能弥补。海水有尽头，月亮有圆缺，

人间有不足，但你在，就能弥补。海水有尽头，月亮有圆缺，

人间有不足，但你在，就能弥补。海水有尽头，月亮有圆缺，

人间有不足，但你在，就能弥补。海水有尽头，月亮有圆缺，

人间有不足，但你在，就能弥补。