"Loudermilk", which is a terrible title for anything, is a series that's currently available on Amazon Prime in the UK. After a couple of episodes, it slotted into a "nothing special, but I might as well keep watching" pigeonhole that, I doubt, it's ever going to be interesting enough to escape from.
Sam Loudermilk (Ron Livingston) is a recovering alcoholic, who leads his regular A. A meeting in the abrasive and misanthropic manner that he conducts the rest of his life. That life, spent berating barista's and flirting with his neighbour Alison (Laura Mennell), is disrupted when the wealthy mother of Claire Wilkes (Anja Savcic) convinces Loudermilk to help her daughter's recovery drink and drug abuse issues. This soon leads to Claire moving in with him, and with Ben (Will Sasso) Loudermilk's best friend, who is also in recovery.
The show trades a lot on your enjoyment in the performances of Ron Livingston, who I really liked in "Office Space" and Will Sasso, as well as some dependable faces in the meetings, such as Brian Regan, Mat Fraser and Danny Wattley. Each of wider cast has their own episode, or at least storyline. It mostly steers clear of being a comedy drama, and stays closer to being a sitcom it it's tone, despite occasionally dealing with heavier issues. Each episode raised at least a chuckle at some point.
Why I don't rate it higher then? Loudermilk himself is a dumb person's version of what a witty person would be like. I think they'd imagine he's cutting through the bull**** of modern life, but really he's just mean to people for no reason. To the show's credit, it does call him out on that occasionally, but not often enough. I also think that the B-Story that runs for most of the second half of the season, involving Cutter and a man who comes to a meeting to cover for his boss's DUI should have been a one-episode story, like most of the other ones.
I'll probably watch Season two - but at the moment, if it does end with the third season I won't be too disappointed.