HAPPYish
6.7·2015·1 Season
Thom Payne is a 44 year-old man whose world is thrown into disarray when his 25 year-old "wunderkind" boss arrives, saying things like "digital," "social" and "viral." Is he in need of a "rebranding," or does he just have a "low joy ceiling?" Maybe pursuing happiness is a fool's errand? Happiness after all is pretty high bar. In a world as absurd as ours, maybe the best anyone can hope for is happyish.
Episodes
1. Starring Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus and Alois Alzheimer
30m44 year-old Thom Payne is pressured to rebrand himself.
2. Starring Marc Chagall, Abuela and Adolf Hitler
30mThom gets a lesson in corporate America. Lee's bubble is invaded.
3. Starring Vladimir Nabokov, Hippocrates and God
30mJulius gets ill. Thom endures dueling takes on the meaning of suffering.
4. Starring Sigmund Freud, Charles Bukowski and Seven Billion A**holes
30mWhile waiting for the mothership to return, Thom is overrun by a**sholes.
5. Starring Josey Wales, Jesus Christ and The New York Times
30mThom gets a life lesson - when his train kills a commuter.
6. Starring Helen Keller, Moses and Lenny Bruce
30mThe Swedes attempt to steal Lorna while offering Thom a big account.
7. Starring David Ogilvy, Anton Chekov and Lady Liberty
30mThom travels to LA. Lee gets a new cell phone and comforts Julius.
8. Starring Rene Descartes, Victor Frankenstein and HRH The Princess of Arendelle
30mThom is forced out of his office. Lee vents about "Frozen."
9. Starring Bill Hicks, Joseph McCarthy and Alfred Bernhard Nobel
30mThom discovers something about Larry. Lee takes Julius to Hebrew School.
10. Starring Christopher Hitchens, Philip Larkin and Josef Stalin
30mThom writes a story involving underpants - then he quits. Season finale.
Cast
Steve Coogan
Thom Payne
Kathryn Hahn
Lee Payne
Bradley Whitford
Jonathan Cooke
Ellen Barkin
Dani Kirschenbloom
Carrie Preston
Debbie
