Is this Comedy?

I have always wanted to see some sort of comedic drama. Almost like an old satirical play. Something that deals with something tough and possibly traumatic, but also allowing for laughter. Stand up comedians tend to do this very well but I have never seen it in a series. Here is the concept. You have this man, Craig, right? He lives with his 4 roommates in a house. Cindy, the sweetest woman on the planet who is like the house mother. Ralph, the guy that is always up to something seemingly criminal. We aren’t ever sure what he’s doing in his room, but he has a habit of getting Craig in trouble. Barry, who is the righteous person in the group. Trying to keep everything in order even when he has to be mean about it.

Then there is Marsha. She is Craig’s ex that still lives there. They seem to have a good relationship, but they have broken up in the past. The only thing about Marsha’s character is that we never see her. It is always in passing. The audience is always just missing her. All of the housemates talk about her and what she said to tell the rest throughout the series.

In this pilot episode, we have Craig looking to hangout with his roommates. He finds out that Marsha has just left through Cindy, who is tidying up the place. We then hear Ralph and Barry arguing about what each other is doing. Craig wants to join them but Barry refuses him. He claims that Ralph will just get him in trouble like normal so he will stay with him. He tells Craig to go out and find something to do without them.

The scenes are all turned up to the max with how ridiculous each character is. Before Craig leaves, Barry actually reminds him that he has work. That’s the other thing, Craig seems to be a bit forgetful at times and he freaks out before getting ready and running off to work. Craig is an accountant at a very large firm. While he tends to be a bit late and scatterbrained at times, his bosses actually don’t mind him. Laurrance and Scott are the founding members of the firm, and Craig’s bosses. The only reason they don’t fire him is because Craig deals with the toughest cases. The clients that don’t ever have anything in order, much like Craig. When it comes to accounting, and numbers, Craig is as calm as can be and a genius.

He figures out all the missing documentation at a glance of spread sheets. He has all codes memorized and actually saves the clients a ton of money. Once they are sorted out and on the road to being good, they become lifelong clients of the firm and bring in a ton of money. Let’s be honest, no one wants to deal with the clients that Craig has.

We see this through scenes with his co-workers. Craig loves talking about his roommates as well. He is telling story after story of all the crazy antics that they get into. It’s like Craig lives in a looney tunes cartoon. His co-workers love it and want to meet them. He plans a party to invite them all to it. The shocking development is that when the coworkers arrive, they see that only Craig lives there. No one else is in the house. For the first time, we see fear and panic on the faces of his co-workers.

You see, Craig is schizophrenic. It is something that would only be hinted at through the series. Sometimes the roommates know about a conversation between the others that they were never a part of. As if they were watching previous scenes from the audience. Only near the end of the series is the full reveal. There are moments where you see roommates deliver food or something to Craig but no one else notices that they were there. He just claims that they must have missed them. There is always this tension between the coworkers always missing the roommates. We also, tragically, find out that Marsha isn’t an ex that is always missing, she is actually Craig’s deceased wife.