HAPPYish
Created by Shalom Auslander
On Showtime
A darkly comic, philosophically skeptical portrait of middle-aged malaise and the absurdity of chasing happiness in a world designed to thwart it.
Thom Payne is a 44 year-old man whose world is thrown into disarray when his 25 year-old "wunderkind" boss arrives, saying things like "digital," "social" and "viral." Is he in need of a "rebranding," or does he just have a "low joy ceiling?" Maybe pursuing happiness is a fool's errand? Happiness after all is pretty high bar. In a world as absurd as ours, maybe the best anyone can hope for is happyish.
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