Feel Good

I stumbeled upon this series and I immediatly loved it. It's engaging, intelligent, funny, feels real and spontaneous, and it tugs on your heart at all the right places. I got so engrossed in relationship between characters that I felt alongside them love, happiness, shame, fear, confusion, anxiety -the whole whirlwind, that I have a desire to watch it again just to catch all the funny puns and dialoges that went on and that I possibly missed the first time. Anyway, cheering on for season 2!

I want to like this show. And I'm trying. But there are quite a few stumbling blocks in the way and I guess the biggest one is that I get zero chemistry between the two main characters. Absolutely none. And if you don't have that, you can't believe they would go through all they are going through. Beyond that I am finding the acting to often be mediocre and their rapid fire dialogue is sometimes hard to follow. I am a bit more than halfway through the episodes and while mildly intrigued where this is going and how it will end, still I am contemplating not continuing. I watch tv to be entertained and this show is just not cutting it on on several levels.

Love and addiction...or should I say love is addiction, or addiction is love. This show is just so personal. I watched all episodes in one sitting. I could relate in way of addiction, not just to drugs, but to the people we love. I recommend it to anyone looking for something real and personal to watch. I can't wait for the next season. I'm hooked.

There's a bit of a spate of quasi-biography comedian-as-themselves type drama/comedies on British TV in the last few years but Mae Martin's brittle and razor sharp tale of rehabilitation, relapse and relationships is by far and away the most painful and beautiful of all of them. Aided by a remarkably strong support cast (Charlotte Ritchie is spellbinding here particularly - and you keenly miss Sophie Thompson in the second series) but all oscillating around a mesmerically layered performance from Martin. Feel Good can really genuinely hurt you but there's a powerful strength to it to. Deeply underrated and not to be ignored.

This show is intense and lovely, the jokes and the drama feels so real. It's very emotional and sweet and very much relatable to everyone. The fact that is in located in England with the sprinkles of that typical British humor makes it even more interesting.

I think it's a must watch.