High Maintenance delivers those laughs you ordered

Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Friday, September 16 and Saturday, September 17. All times are Eastern.
Top picks
High Maintenance (HBO, 11 p.m., Friday): HBO’s newest original series, created by husband-and-wife team Ben Sinclair and Katja Blichfeld, follows bike-riding weed delivery guy Sinclair (known only as “The Guy”) as he weaves around New York, delivering his wares to an eclectic collection of customers, and presumably saying spacey and amusing things. Based on a popular webseries, which The A.V. Club really dug, the show is described by Sinclair as a combination of Party Down and Six Feet Under. Sure, that sounds like slamming two random shows together, but if High Maintenance can pull that improbable combination off, it’ll be [stoner lingo meaning “cool” we’re not hip enough to get away with].
Premieres and finales
Fleabag (Amazon, 3:01 a.m., Friday): In her pre-air review of this British import, Lisa Weidenfeld calls it “another entry into the growing canon of really wonderful comedies that also make you want to cry.” So get ready for some delightful emotional whiplash as Amazon brings you this series starring show creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge as an eccentrically chipper woman whose unpredictable antics and fourth-wall-breaking asides conceal a whole lot of pain that the show only gradually socks you with.
Arq (Netflix, 3:01 a.m., Friday): TV superheroes Robbie Amell (Firestorm) and Rachael Taylor (Hellcat, probably) team up without superpowers in this movie debuting on Netflix. [Assumes Don LaFontaine voice.] In a world running out of energy, a young couple has invented a power source that could save humanity. But then some guys with guns break into their lab, and there’s a whole time-travel element and so forth. Coming soon!
Cedric The Entertainer: Live From The Ville (Netflix, 3:01 a.m., Friday): A new stand-up special for you. The ’Ville: Nash. The Entertainer: Cedric.
The White Helmets (Netflix, 3:01 a.m., Friday): The trailer for this Netflix documentary begins with the line, “There are hundreds of bombs dropped in Syria every day,” a fact that makes the heroism of the trainee first responders featured here that much more, well, heroic. As they desperately try to save lives in the strife-shattered Syrian city of Aleppo (c’mon, Gary Johnson), the rescuers often become the need-to-be-rescued, making the titular headgear pretty much de rigueur. (We would say “a no-brainer,” but, no.)