Please Like Me.

Hello! Unfortunately, I haven’t had time to make anything for this blog in a long long while. But I am always happy to answer asks. If you’re looking for recommends of something similar to watch, I’ll pull my answer from a previous ask and also add some new stuff:

Skam – realistic, understated Norwegian teen drama. Season three focuses on lgbt issues, but I would watch all of the show and not just stick to Isak’s storyline. There are several international remakes, of which I highly recommend Skam Italia.Fresh Meat – hilarious British show. Centered around six uni students who are living together. Young adult/growing up problems, like Please Like Me.Crazy Ex-Girlfriend – totally self-aware musical comedy. The title put me off for a bit, but when I finally gave it a chance, it proved more and more that it knows exactly what it’s doing. Discusses mental illness, feminism, and has a few lgbt characters.You’re the Worst – comedy/drama with the same kind of acidity that Please Like Me can have. Puts two people together who are “the worst,” but really explores what makes them who they are. Really fantastic mental health storyline.Pramface – light and fun British comedy. Young people/growing up problems. A high school boy accidentally impregnates a college-bound, slightly posher girl during a one night stand. They try to figure out their relationship. And the boy’s two best friends are everything.The Outs – fantastic understated NYC webseries focusing on the half-life of a relationship. Jack and Mitchell broke up, and we examine their lives as they attempt to move on and figure out who they are now.Whatever This Is – awesome webseries from The Outs team. This is probably the closest thing to Please Like Me, and I am still holding out for a second season. Three room mates (two of whom are a couple) try to make rent and figure out who they are and what they want. Lgbt focus.

Pen15 – Hulu show which mirrors the awkwardness and humor of Please Like Me. The creators star as two seventh grade girls in the early 2000s, dealing with being friends while trying to be more adult, be more popular, and everything else a middle schooler deals with.

Terrace House – understated, bingeworthy Japanese reality show. Three men and three women (all strangers) live in a house together and… that’s it. They come and go as they please (school, work, etc.) and can exit the show completely once they feel like they’re ready. People come to find romance, to achieve professional goals, and more. You just watch as they form beautiful friendships, start relationships, and grow. A hilarious celebrity panel comments on the happenings and give insight into Japanese culture.

The Good Place – network sitcom that manages to be funny, surprising, philosophical, and heartfelt. When you die, the literal sum total of your good deeds and bad deeds determine if you go to the Good Place or the Bad Place. Eleanor (Kristen Bell) wakes up in the Good Place, but knows immediately that it’s a mistake and must find a way to stay—with the help of her Good Place-ordained soulmate and annoying/mysterious neighbors.

Élite – Spanish high school drama series. Much more soapy than Please Like Me, but plenty of characters to love. Strong lgbt storylines.

Russian Doll – Netflix series riffing on Groundhog’s Day. Nadia (Natasha Lyonne) keeps dying and waking up at her 36th birthday party. She reevaluates her life and issues as she has to do her days over and over again—and then makes a beautiful and surprising connection to someone who might be the key to getting unstuck.

So You Think You Can Dance – Okay, okay, here’s a far out recommend. Cheesy reality competition show? Yes, in the best way. It’s genuinely about the jawdropping talent of these young dancers, and every season has multiple real, amazing connections between dancers. Watching them fight to make their dreams real, while making friends and finding themselves is amazing. Case in point: underdogs Genessy and Slavik from last season, who made an immediate connection and raised each other through the competition.

So in the spirit of “Greatest Hits,” an episode of Lost that commemorates great moments before eventually dying, let’s say goodbye to Please Like Me in style.

Send me your favorite moments from all four seasons of the show. I’ll make a gifset with at least the top ten. But if I get a lot of different responses, I’ll make a mega gifset, or multiple gifsets, or a gifset for every favorite moment. Whatever makes people happiest!

Tell me about your show, what are we expecting from it?

So this is season four of our show. It starts with a gay threesome that he’s involved in, so that’s pretty energetic. We’re living in a house together on the show and Tom is dating Ella and he’s trying to lock that down. And then a whole bunch of other stuff happens and people get their heart broken and other even worse stuff happens than that.

Could you explain more broadly what the show is? For people who have no idea what it is.