3. It's Diverse
While it's easy to forget, the fact is simple - there's not a huge amount of diversity out there on television these days. Whether or not it's the overall lack of people of colour, LGBTQ representation or people who aren't conventionally slender and typically attractive, there's a very small pool of people and characters who appear on TV. Fortunately
Happy Endings is a cut above the rest in terms of this - Brad and Jane are the show's grounding centre, an interracial totally happily-in-love married couple who are often seen as the 'adults' of the show's core cast whilst remaining zany, fun and a delight to watch. We also have Max, a chubby gay anti-hero whose antics are brilliant and groundbreaking, largely because Max is a three-dimensional gay character on television, but also because he's not a thin rake of a man and yet is - shockingly - shown to be sexually active, capable of romance and complicated feelings, a bit of a tool at times, and yet endearing loveable. It's this fantastic range of diversity that needs to be maintained, particularly with characters we've already come to love and care for. This isn't the forced acceptance-and-after-school-special vibe of shows like
Glee, but it works just as well, using laughter rather than drama to engage the viewer.