In this season, as his coffee cart business thrives, Josh’s personal life is in upheaval. After a jubilant honeymoon phase, the weight of maintaining a “proper” relationship crashes in on Josh and Arnold, while Josh tries to juggle his hapless parents and aimless friends.
The show has always fallen on the side of gentle twentysomething observational comedy ... but season four truly outdid itself with its laughs before finally landing the emotional gut punch that it has always threatened to do.
Please Like Me has grown into a delightfully assured series that skirts the line between being a "gay show" and "a show about gay people," without really seeing either of those things as necessary labels to be boxed in by.
If season four is indeed the shows last it will have gone out on a high note, genuinely capturing the awkward shift between young adult and still figuring it out and should have figured it out by now adult.
