What to Watch on TV this Weekend: Chloe's Guide

Sept. 16–18, 2016

Here are a few suggestions for what to watch on the upcoming weekend.

High Maintenance

Friday, Sept. 16 - HBO -11 p.m.

The year 1937, riding the aftermath of the Prohibition Era, saw the establishment of the Marijuana Tax Act, which effectively prohibited the use and sale of cannabis on a federal level, with the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 designating the plant as a Schedule I drug. The first marijuana dispensary, Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana, appeared in Fairfax, Ca. in 1996. Today, medical cannabis is legal in more than half of the U.S., with recreational use legal in Alaska, Colorado, Oregon and Washington.

Coasting this progressive wave of government regulation, husband-and-wife team Ben Sinclair and Katja Blichfeld has curated High Maintenance, formerly a series of mini-episodes, illustrating a timetable of New Yorkers buying marijuana from a bicycling deliveryman, known only as "The Guy." A three-year, six-season run on Vimeo solidified a niche for the series where none other had existed, and in April of 2015, HBO announced that it had ordered six television episodes.

HBO's High Maintenance encompasses all that made the original series the innovative creation that it was, while offering a broader scape for enhanced indulgence. High Maintenance focuses not on the wares of our nameless salesman, but rather, the show offers viewers a peek into the routines, lifestyles and idiosyncrasies of The Guy's motley clientele.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)

Saturday, Sept. 17- Freeform - 9:45 a.m.

Gene Wilder charmed audiences with his performance in The Producers (1967) and Young Frankenstein (1974), often performing alongside the no-holds-barred style of comedian Richard Pryor (Silver Streak, Stir Crazy and See No Evil, Hear No Evil). Arguably, Wilder's most renowned role was that of the whimsically oracular Willy Wonka, proprietor of a strange and wondrous candy factory based in an unnamed town.

Adapted from Roald Dahl's 1964 novel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, this musical fantasy tells the story of Charlie Bucket, an impoverished, young boy, who receives a golden ticket and visits the famed, titular factory with four other children from around the world. Bucket, his chaperoning grandfather and the other guests are led by Wonka on a colorful exhibition, shaped by the decisions of all accompanying personalities, that mocks convention and defies logic. What Bucket takes away from the experience is a deal sweeter than he could have imagined.

Bob's Burgers

Sunday, Sept. 18 - Fox - 7 p.m.

Animated sitcom Bob's Burgers is the Emmy award-winning fruit of creator Loren Bouchard's labor. Bouchard, who is, perhaps, best known for his co-creation of Home Movies, received the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Animated Series and the Teen Choice Award for Choice Animated Series for Bob's Burgers in 2012. TV Guide ranked the show as one of the top 60 greatest television cartoons of all time in 2013.

Bob's Burgers follows the life and times of the Belcher family — parents Bob (H. Jon Benjamin) and Linda (John Roberts) and their children, Tina (Dan Mintz), Gene (Eugene Mirman) and Louise Kristen Schaal) — and their hamburger restaurant. Episodes employ unorthodox plots that complement the eclectic nature of the Belcher quintet, from the happy-go-lucky matriarch to the insidiously clever antiheroine found in the clan's youngest member.

The show made its debut in 2011 and, as of October 2015, has been renewed for an eighth production cycle, scheduled to air during the 2017-2018 broadcast season. Its seventh season premieres Sunday, Sept. 25.

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