Weird Loners

Beyond its thin premise, Weird Loners fares best when it digs deeper, having Stosh help Caryn out with an older relative, or exploring the childhood history between Stosh and Eric.

It’s not loud or frenetic. It’s not particularly cutting-edge. It’s just funny, in a relaxed way that’s welcome somehow in a television spectrum full of pushiness and intensity.

Loners is goofy--the same way Knighton’s “Happy Endings” was--and that’s what makes it so fun.

The principals are all good.... And there are funny lines.... At the same time, the show feels something shy of essential.

Weird Loners wants to be a cheeky howl on behalf of the unloved, but it does little to elicit sympathy or laughter from its familiar, humorless, formulations of weirdness and lonesomeness. [3 Apr 2015, p.58]

Weird Loners instead re-shuffles the aimless singles deck before falling well short of coming up aces.

Because this [Manhattan-cetric romcoms where self-absorption ultimately gives way to romance] is such an overly familiar TV trope, it demands great chemistry among all the leads and sharply funny dialogue to match. I wandered through this purgatory for three episodes and found zilch.