Happy Endings Review

Happy Endings

Netflix

I’m in a bit of a Casey Rose Wilson binge at the moment. Of course, Bitch Sesh is one of my all-time favorite podcasts (going to the virtual show tonight, in fact) but I’ve also started reading her new book of essays (review to come next week). So when I heard Happy Endings, which is the comedy she co-starred in back in the early 2010s, is available on streaming I knew I need to give it a try.

I don’t know how I missed it the first go-round and I can definitely see how it has a cult (say that with love) following! Set in Chicago, Happy Endings is the new generation of comedies that isn’t in front of a live audience and doesn’t have a laugh track. Don’t get me wrong, I’m obsessed with Friends, but hearing people laugh kind of dates the show.

I just started the third and final season and I am loving it! Am I obsessed? No, because I’m not binging it back to back but listen when I say it is sooooo good. It was originally a 30-minute show on network TV, so a quick 23 minutes sans commercials of mindless entertainment is sometimes exactly what you need. And with a cast that isn’t 100% white and hetero (again, love Friends but really???) it feels much more in line with the times.

I am: Entertained