Happyish (2015) - The A.V. Club

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Season 1

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10. Starring Christopher Hitchens, Philip Larkin and Josef Stalin
9. Starring Mr. Mike, Joseph McCarthy and Alfred Bernhard Nobel
8. Starring Rene Descartes, Adweek and HRH the Princess of Arendelle
7. Starring David Ogilvy, Anton Chekhov and Gluten Enteropathy
6. Starring Helen Keller, Moses and Lenny Bruce
5. Starring Josey Wales, Jesus Christ and the New York Times
4. Starring Sigmund Freud, Charles Bukowski and Seven Billion A**Holes
3. Starring Vladimir Nabokov, Hippocrates and God
2. Starring Marc Chagall, Abuela and Adolf Hitler
1. Starring Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus and Alois Alzheimer

Cast

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Steve Coogan
Thom Payne
Kathryn Hahn
Lee Payne
Sawyer Shipman
Julius Payne
Bradley Whitford
Jonathan Cooke
Carrie Preston
Debbie
Nils Lawton
Gottfrid
Tobias Segal
Gustaf
Hannah Hodson
Lorna
Sean Kleier
Mikal
Molly Price
Bella
Lauren Culpepper
Tracey
Andre Royo
Barry
Ellen Barkin
Dani Kirschenbloom
Kevin Kilner
David
Reshma Shetty
Maya
Marsha Stephanie Blake
Michelle
Michael Zegen
Atomic Goldfarb
Molly Hager
Lisa

Creator

Shalom Auslander

Synopsis

On his birthday, Thom Payne gets the gift of insignificance and also a new boss. He suspects his ED pills are interfering with his anti-depressants, leaving him with neither happiness nor... happiness. In a culture that reveres youth - a culture he helped create - Thom needs to figure out what his purpose is now that he's halfway to death and nobody cares what he thinks. Because in a world where any Kardashian is trending up, perhaps the wise among us would heartily embrace trending down.