It’s hard to take a title such as “Feel Good” seriously right now: as an instruction it feels pathetically inadequate; as an adjective woefully inappropriate – mediocre feel-good viewing is probably as psychologically nourishing as mindless blank scrolling. Fortunately, Feel Good is neither patronising nor fluffy.
A semi-autobiographical Channel 4 series created by and starring comedian Mae Martin, it centres around a Canadian stand-up comic and recovering addict in London, also named Mae. She is anxious, impulsive and “intense” – or, as one character puts it, “her legs are always moving and her eyes are spooky”. When she meets posh, sweet George (Charlotte Ritchie) at a gig, she is instantly consumed by the relationship: “It’s the greatest gift of my life that I get to have sex with goddamn Princess Diana every day!” But the script breezes over the early days of romance: the couple have their first kiss in the show’s seventh minute; by the ninth, they’ve moved in together and Mae is disguising her fear over the speed of their cohabitation as excitement. “I couldn’t sleep!” she grins, clutching two coffees. “I’m too pumped!”
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