Party Down ran for two seasons in 2009 and 2010 and is one
of the best shows to be cancelled too soon. The features a six-man team of
caterers who work a different event every week allowing the characters to be
audience surrogates to a variety of bizarre subcultures (a young
republicans convention, a pricey pre-school auction, a mob celebration, a
same-sex wedding, a pork industry awards party, etc).
Rewatching the TV show recently, I found it to
be a show about dreamers (three are actors at various stages of their career
life span, one's a stand-up comic, one's a writer, and one dreams of owning a
restaurant franchise) who are making due in a purgatory of sorts. More so, I
found it to be about the price of giving up on your dreams as shown through
Henry. At times, Henry was the saddest character on the show because even
though the other characters could be considered sad through delusion, marital
frustration, an inferiority complex, or social awkwardness, they at least had
hope
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