Please Like Me - Season 4 [top]

The title of the show has always been a plea. Josh wants his mother to like him. He wants Arnold to like him. He wants the audience to like him. But by the end of Season 4, the show evolves past that plea. It stops asking for permission to exist.

In a show full of mental health crises, the dissolution of Tom and Ella’s relationship is jarringly normal. They argue about the dishes, about sex, about not feeling special anymore. It is a gut-wrenching portrayal of two people who love each other but have become roommates. The episode where they finally split—over a spaghetti dinner that goes cold—contains no yelling. Just soft, defeated confessions. It is a masterclass in naturalistic breakup writing.

Josh and Arnold pick up a stranger for a threesome that leaves Josh feeling sidelined. Please Like Me - Season 4

The most significant shift, however, involves Josh’s mother, Rose (a tour-de-force performance by Judi Farr). After years of hospitalizations, manic episodes, and suicide attempts, Rose has moved into a long-term psychiatric care facility. This relocation is not presented as a tragedy or a miracle, but as a necessary, sad compromise. does something remarkable here: it removes the "crisis" of mental illness and replaces it with the management of it.

The shared apartment (Josh, Tom, and Ella) functions as a character itself. Season 4 shows the dissolution of this safe space. The title of the show has always been a plea

The emotional anchor of Season 4 is the terminal illness of Josh’s mother, Rose (played with devastating nuance by Helen Thomson).

When we reunite with Josh (Josh Thomas) in Season 4, everything has changed, yet nothing is resolved. The season opens with a fractured household. Tom (Thomas Ward) and Ella (Caitlin Stasey) are living together, navigating the mundanity of domestic life. Arnold (Keegan Joyce), Josh’s anxious and obsessive-compulsive former boyfriend, is still in the picture, but the romantic spark has been awkwardly replaced by an attempt at friendship. He wants the audience to like him

★★★★★ (5/5) Where to stream: Hulu (US), ABC iview (Australia), Netflix (Select regions) Best for: Fans of Fleabag , Feel Good , Better Things , and crying while laughing.

: As the series concludes, the group disperses. Tom and Ella break up, and they all eventually move out of their shared house. Josh is left in a state of reflection, attending therapy and learning to move forward despite his pain. Episode Guide Babaganoush