25 shows that will make you happy to be single this summer
By Sundi Rose
Don’t Trust the B in Apartment 23
Long before Krysten Ritter was Jessica Jones and shortly after she met her infamous end in Breaking Bad she was the jerky roommate to June from Indiana. Ritter played Chloe, the worst person imaginable, who ends up with a sweet unassuming roommate straight off the bus from Indiana.
June moves to the city to pursue her dream job, but when she gets there she realizes that it doesn’t exist anymore. She stumbles upon Chloe who has a clever scheme going in which she asks for roommate’s rent upfront and then behaves so ridiculously that they move out. June proves a little hard to displace, and when June stands up to her, they form a friendship.
Their neighbor, James Van Der Beek playing himself, pops in and out, and it shakes out to be them against the world — except Chloe is pretty awful and is usually an antagonist to everyone she meets. She is the epitome of the phrase “sorry not sorry” and frankly, it’s kind of freeing.
She is unapologetically bad, and it becomes kind of endearing to just watch her be so awful. I know it sounds a little counterintuitive, but it’s part of her charm. June, meek and mild-mannered suffers through a series of ill-fated dates and a has a crush she doesn’t seem to know what to do with. Chloe is like her alter-ego, offering a bizzaro-world example of what it would be like to just come so super hard on dates, without worrying over a “first impression.”
Where to watch: The show initially aired on ABC in 2012, but was canceled after 3 seasons. Since it’s demise, it’s garnered a bit of a cult following, for good reason, and you can get on board over at Hulu.