‘Why Are You Like This’ Turns Twentysomething Chaos Into the ABC’s New Must-See Comedy – Concrete Playground

More than once during Why Are You Like This, aspiring drag queen Austin (Wil King) attempts to shut out the world by scrolling through memes on his phone. Although the six-part ABC sitcom he’s in isn’t doesn’t show him looking at any of the images that give the series its title, you can bet that he’d stumble across them. He’d have to. It’s the internet — they’re unavoidable. And, he’d likely do one of two things when he did find the memes on his screen: either flick past hundreds without giving a single thought to how they might relate his life, or keep viewing one after the other until he melts down because they hit a little too close to home.

Irreverent and astute, honest yet hilarious, drawn from reality but also willing to poke…