This show has been excellent, although it is hard for me to watch at times. It is a story about an alcoholic writer who has a child and on again/off again girlfriend who is the mother of his child (the love of his life). Yet he is also a playboy, getting sexually involved with nearly every girl he meets. This happens almost once an episode. He keeps trying throughout all of the seasons to win her back only to be found messing around with another woman and getting himself into predicaments (such as messing around with an underaged girl). His best friend is a chronic masturbator who watched porn at work and messes around with some of the staff (cheating on his coke addict wife) and gets fired from his job. All of these adults pretty much act like children (well, teenagers) causing the main character's daughter to take care of her parents. And her life gets pretty messed up as she has to deal with her parents, her own life, and her own tough decisions with drugs and sex. She has bad role models around.
The plot was excellent season after season as we try to see if any of these characters can clean up their acts and have normal lives/careers. The drama continues and becomes more involved and more complicated/deep each time. At the end of the third season is an episode which definitely tugged at me emotionally as as the main character was the closest to getting his girl (but he also got what he deserved all along).
The reason why this show is so hard for me to watch is because I am not good with the whole cheating thing. I had my heart broken once and it's hard to watch the characters have their hearts broken repeatedly and make mistakes. It's generally hard for me to watch movies/shows with cheating because I will tear up and get stomach sick and hate the character with every bit of me. But there is something that keeps me watching (it doesn't make me feel that what they did was okay, especially repeatedly). It's the emotion of the characters and construction of their beings that keeps me hooked.
Overall Rating: 4.5
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