Writing About Happy Endings

In line with recent TV critic musing about TV criticism, Cory Barker discusses why Happy Endings is both really funny and hard to write about weekly: "The series is consistently funny each week and reaches those comedic heights with fairly simple jokes and gags. You could say that they’re complex in terms of how much intertextual knowledge you might need to have, but the way they’re deployed is relatively simple and straightforward. Simple pleasures are just as worthy as complex, difficult pleasures, but writing about those simple pleasures is problematic on a weekly basis."