George Grigorian I missed it when it started back in 2009, but somehow I had a feeling that this would be a great show. I started watching now on HBOGO and am loving it! Great story, great acting! One of the only things that helps me relax in these stressful days we live in.I have to say though, I got really sad when George was diagnosed with cancer and I was really bombed that why my favorite show that make me soooo happy has to have such drama in it... just to find out, that it was a mistake!!! :) I love you guys!!! great writing, great acting!!! Love the lines that Ted Danson says from time to time in the show and quote them on my facebook page crediting the show of course! I would love love love to work with you.cheers, George :)

tiberiuchiriac1987 i work from home, so i see a lot of TV... i probably watch 25-35 TV shows per year. I watch all genres and while i watch them i don't take into consideration a lot of things because I'm usually concentrated on something else. As a low concentration need show(and funny) this is the best. This show has the span to make me laugh and still be concentrated at something else. One of the best light shows for me.This show is much better than so many "medium" budgeted movies...it just purely has its own way of doing things which is very fresh from my perspective... It's very hard to do something new(creative) nowadays but this show brings that.

Lasse Kärkkäinen The main character Jason in an emo guy and his best friend Zach is a social loser. Every episode seems to repeat the exact same story: the recently- separated protagonist meets with some extremely sexy lady while playing private detective but then that never leads to anything. Solving a case consists of (1) answer the telephone, (2) meet the caller in person, (3) look in the place suggested by the caller and find the missing person there.Meanwhile Jason's boss harasses him with some very personal issues, leading to tacky situations. The loser friend's issues get ignored while Jason keeps going on about how bad it is that his girlfriend left him and how he maybe should be drinking less white wine or smoking less pot to win her back.At the end of each episode the situation resets back to normal: there is no character development and the the next episode is going to have an even sillier story than the one you just watched. Watching this crap makes you dull and I had to give up during the fifth episode of the first season as my brain just could not take this anymore.The title sequence is nice and the music and directing are OK, so 4/10 for that.

Dr.Baha Amro Jonathan Ames is a one novel writer and a his Second novel is refused, a 447,000 rating on Amazon. He writes the occasional article for his friend George Christopher (Ted Danson, in a funny role as usual), the editor of an Esquire-type magazine. Meanwhile, his friend Ray (Zak Galifianakis)is a comic novelist who is always frustrated, his Girl friend Leah controls his moves and makes his life a misery. Jonathan's girlfriend moves out after he refuses to clean up his act according to her wishes (no drinking, no pot smoking).After losing his roommate/lover, Jonathan is unable to write, and suffers from a serious case of the doldrums. He mopes around his apartment, doing very little but reading Raymond Chandler novels and getting smoked up. Schwartzman is very good at conveying this bright-guy-turning-into-a-loser character. Apparently inspired by the Chandler novels, he decides to try his hand at being a private eye himself. Despite having no background whatsoever in police work, he figures he has nothing to lose and advertises on craigslist as an "unlicensed" private detective. He hopes that by doing this he will pad his bank account, as well as find inspiration for his writing. Thus, the hilarity ensues.The series is stylish, with lots of allusions to Raymond Chandler potboilers, complete with gorgeous, troubled dames, topcoats, hats, and all the Chandler-esquire parafernalia. Jonathan hasn't a clue as to what he's doing, but somehow his escapades all work out, with George and Ray as his Keystone cops sidekicks. Each episode is done tongue-in-cheek, requiring a large dose of literary license from the viewer. If the viewer has a sense of fun and enjoys a well-crafted farce, this isn't hard to do. I hope this series catches on, because in my household, this is half an hour of very entertaining television. All the actors do a fine job, my favorite being Ted Danson, who seems to thoroughly enjoy acting a fool and probably getting paid enormous amounts of money to do so. Some of the scenes are sidesplittingly funny; others have a Woody Allen-ish charm, as Schwartzman is exactly the kind of appealing nebbish that Allen always played. Season 2 started very nicely and is continuing the awesomeness of Season 1.