What I’m Watching: Apartment 23

Apartment 23: Season 2, Episode 6 “Bar Lies” (B)

This show is verging on the ridiculous, and I say that knowing that it’s never been especially tethered to reality. The relationship between June’s mom and James is getting to be particularly silly, and I’m not sure that we need to spend much more time on this whole “Dancing with the Stars” plotline since it feels very forced. Having James be out of town does, however, provide the opportunity for plenty of Chloe and June bonding time back time, mainly in their feud over the ethics of Chloe renting out James’ apartment without his knowledge while he was away. Such schemes explain how Chloe is able to finance all of her shenanigans and actually make some money to support herself, aside from that several-days—a-year job working with the U.N. As usual, June’s efforts to match Chloe’s antics don’t go as planned, and she always goes way too far in her pursuit of having fun without any consequences, not satisfied with a small bar lie and instead thrown in over her head in more than one situation. Getting charged sixteen dollars for an iced tea after she attempted to pose as a whiskey connoisseur was funny, and it’s her despondent overreaction to her failure that’s most entertaining. This is the kind of show that doesn’t necessarily have a direction in which it’s headed, and instead may just have its characters in the same scenarios over and over again, doomed to stay in their present circumstances for the duration of this series.