Feel Good (2020)

“Feel Good” accomplishes so much in its tight six episodes that it’s both a blessing and curse that it leaves the viewer wanting more. ... It’s so damn good you may want to watch it all over again.

Martin and Hampson have made a delicate comedy and a tender love story, grafting both on to an undercurrent of pain, without ever being maudlin about it. Feel Good is a beautiful achievement, kind, human, as clever as it is funny.

Its second season, also just six episodes, is just as richly textured and even more ambitious in its storytelling. Martin’s comedic voice is original and sharp, and the show unflinchingly embraces discomfort and mess.

Feel Good would have benefitted from having a bit more time to explore these areas fully, but the mere fact that there’s appetite for more is a testament to its quality. Martin and Hampson have delivered a comedy drama with real heart and something meaningful to say, taking two characters on a rollercoaster journey that comes to an authentic and thoughtful end.

Beneath the surface charms of this clever, entertaining series, Martin wants to show us how difficult it is to be a moral person, and how beautiful it is to try.

The new episodes of “Feel Good” are on a par with the old ones — textured, funny, a bit dramatic, and fitted with a clear theme: trauma and recovery from it.

It goes deep into the issues that Mae is struggling with but never loses its sense of self and the sense that it must take us with it. Its six half-hour episodes flit by in no time.

Martin was the revelation of the first season, an inexperienced lead who immediately displayed astonishing on-screen ease with both comedy and pathos. The second season somehow amplifies the two extremes of the performance perfectly. ... These episodes rush by, perhaps too quickly, with an abruptly resolved series finale.