Opinions on this show will vary This show is interesting on a few levels. First off it's not intended to be funny, however it is at least to me.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a 30ish (I don't recall if he says is age) teacher with anxiety and depression. This isn't the funny part. The intended part of the show is that. It's ok for what it is. It's pretty watchable and Joseph Gordon-Levitt does a great job in playing this role.
So what is funny then. Well Joseph Gordon-Levitt is my age. My stepson is 20 years younger and I watched this with him. We concluded that this is my generation's interpretation of how someone of that age group is, my stepson who's also about 10 years removed agrees. This is the generation between the two of us. We both found it hilarious.
The interpretation we came up with is as follows:
Say a light bulb dies in your apartment.
My generation would complain about doing it (40 at the time of this review)
My stepson's generation (21) may not know how to do this but would Google it and figure it out, probably procrastinating though for some time.
This generation (30 ish) would see the lightbulb was dead, cry and sulk on the couch for several hours. They'd go to work the next day think about it and return home that evening only to be emotionally distraught over it.
This isn't really our stereotyping of that generation but rather a societal one and it's rather how this show comes across as being written. While it's an exaggeration this is how someone of my generation would write a show like this, and here we now have it, the end product.
I like how it's filmed, it's well acted, my only real gripe is the dream sequences.
This is likely to be viewed in different regard depending on viewership age.