“Close Enough” Makes You Feel a Little Less Sad About Getting Old

Some things are so negative, and you just cannot put a positive spin to it. For example, getting old. Nothing makes you feel worse than growing up. Muscles and joints you did not know your body has started weathering, your dinnertime has become earlier, “The Great British Bake Off” becomes a show that you relate with and want to watch even when you are sober. J. G. Quintel’s brand-new HBO Max series called “Close Enough” is the closest a sitcom can come to how frustrating and annoying it is to be an adult. But it is better to deal with maturity as an adventure life threw at you, rather than sit home and mourn the inevitable. “Close Enough” is a lot like Quintel’s other series, Regular Show, in terms of style and humour. 

This hilarious animated comedy gives us a glimpse into the lives of parents Josh and Emily, their daughter Candice, and newly  divorced friends Alex, and Bridgette . All these mismatched sets of people live under the same roof. Anyone who has seen The Regular Show is already well aware of the intense twists and turns this series can take. Every 15-minute episode starts with a fundamental, relatable but solvable problem, like Josh and Emily visiting a night club with hopes of recreating their long lost life and feeling young again. But as the episode starts to approach its end, that regular and uncomplicated setup becomes something big. In the case mentioned, the club they visit, literally named Logan’s Run, murders anyone above the age of 35.

It sounds so silly and extreme, but this is what makes it so very entertaining. Close Enough persistently engulfs you with random quirks and silliness of all the characters to make an exaggerated and more amusing point. Watching the new parents struggle to salvage their lost youth, and the abandoned dreams of their youth is unbelievably realistic.

Together, they have built a loving family with their incredible daughter and a house full of amazing friends.

Close Enough does not talk about aims of your teenage years or the perspective stemming out with old age. It deals with those messy years in the middle when nothing quite makes sense, and who you have become is never what you wished to be. Yes, growing old sucks, and of course, it’s saddening to watch your old dreams crumble right in front of you. But rather than putting this conflict at a pedestal and being upset about its existence, Close Enough rebuilds this entire change into a fun journey in its own right.

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Ava Williams is a trained office.com/setup expert who works with the development team with feedback from customers to make it to expectations. He lives in New York and In addition to his work, he also writes for his personal blog.