History Series / FeelGood

** George's friend Binky thinks [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer all queer women she meets have a crush on her]], and casually uses slurs and otherwise hurtful language, all while completely oblivious that she's George is a closeted bisexual woman.

* CommitmentIssues: The conflict in Mae's and George's relationship is that Mae wants very intense, fulltime commitment, while George is avoidant of intimacy and afraid of her friends' opinion of her.

* JunkieParent: Maggie, mother of Lava/Laura, is a drug user.

* AddictionDisplacement: DiscussedTrope. Maggie displaces her drug cravings into copious amounts of coffee and a comically long list of hobbies and advices Mae to do the same. Later at an NA meeting, Mae goes on a rant about how everyone there is just substituting one addiction for some other one. Mae's main displacement strategy for her drug cravings is throwing themself head first into relationships, and hypersexuality.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Jared, a guy from George and Binky's friend circle that Binky is trying to set up with George, who is very transparently not interested, but Jared is incapable of taking a hint.
* AddictionDisplacement: DiscussedTrope. Maggie displaces her drug cravings into copious amounts of coffee and a comically long list of hobbies and advices Mae to do the same. Later at a NA meeting, mae goes on a rant how everyone at the group are just substituting one addiction for some other. Mae's main displacement strategy for her drug cravings is throwing themself head first into relationships, and hypersexuality.
* AgeGapRomance: i season two, we find out that after running away from home, Mae went to live with Scott, the manager of a local comedy club, who assumed the relationship was romantic, and Mae froze up and didn't resist, but became traumatized by the experience.

* BrutalHonesty: Linda's way of talking to everyone, bluntly telling them exactly what she things without sparing anything. This particularly comes up when she berates her child Mae, but does so [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold out of love]].

* CommitmentIssues: the conflict in Mae's and George's relationship is that Mae wants very intense, fulltime commitment, while George is avoidant of intimacy and afraid of her friends' opinion of her.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Mae was an addict who used and dealt cocaine, which caused her to serve some time in prison. She also overdosed. Mae's been clean for some time when the series starts however. Later we learn she was sexually abused by men during that period too.

* DroneOfDread: Mae experiences a sharp, staticky drone whenever they experience an addiction trigger, like seeing someone do cocaine, but the first time we hear it is when Mae and George hit off at the comedy club, and Mae realizes they're going to end up in another whirlwind romance.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: George's roommate Phil.

* [[GranolaGirl Granola Guy]]: Elliot, George's boyfriend after breaking up with Mae, who's bisexual, a feminist and a considerate lover, but who lectures George about what he perceives as her inappropriate sexual appetites. [[spoiler: They break up.]]

* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: George's long time friend Binky seems to think every queer woman around her desires her carnally, while also oblivious that her best friend is bisexual.
* HippieName: Laura, Maggie's daughter is actually called Lava, a name Maggie came up while high.

** George's friend Binky thinks [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer all queer women she meets have a crush on her]], and casually uses slurs and otherwise hurtful language, all while oblivious she is saying this to her closeted bisexual best friend.

* JunkieParent: Maggie, mother of Lava/Laura

* StimulantSpeedtalk: when Mae and Maggie go for coffee, Maggie is displeased with the strength of the coffee, and goes behind the counter to brew more, and in the next scene she and Mae are talking excitedly about all the ways to avoid addictive cravings, and after they leave the table we see a pile of empty coffee cups.
* StonersAreFunny: one of Mae's fellow comedian regulars at the club wears a suit emblazoned with Marijuana leaves, and is constantly high.

* TattooedCrook: when Mae and George compare scars and other markings, it's revealed that Mae got a tattoo on her wrist in prison.

%%* TokenMinority: Nick, a black guy who owns the club where Mae performs, is the only man of color in the main cast. (not true as of season two, but even then kinda questionalble because the show has a pretty small cast anyway)
* TraumaButton: a sharp DroneOfDread signals times when Mae experiences addiction triggers, some of which include witnessing drug use, having to be alone with their thoughts, or situations that remind them of their first, abusive sexual relationship with an older man.

* UndiscriminatingAddict: while mae was primarily addicted to cocaine, she also steals Oxycodone from a hospital, and at another point, in a stressful situation, downs a whole bottle of mouthwash for the alcohol.

* AbhorentAdmirer: Jared, a guy from George and Binky's friend circle that Binky is trying to set up with George, who is very transparently not interested, but Jared is incapable of taking a hint.

* StrawNihilist: Mae briefly becomes one in Season 2, ranting about how love is simply a mechanism to insure survival (therefore meaningless to her) and life's terrible and pointless as we'll all die eventually, annoying George. It's mostly {{played for laughs}}, until Mae's cynicism discourages one of George's students from completing her project about saving the bees, which is when George actually gets angry at her.

* TokenMinority: Nick, a black guy who owns the club where Mae performs, is the only man of color in the main cast.

* DisappearedDad:
** George's dad is mentioned but unseen until halfway through season 2, when she calls him out on disappearing.
** Laura's difficult relationship with her mother is given much attention. No mention of her father though. Since her mother was a drug addict at the time, it's possible they don't know who he is.

* RecoveredAddict: Mae is a cocaine addict and has been clean for years. However, she's very reluctant to attend Narcotics Anonymous meetings and otherwise go through formal 12-step recovery, but eventually does so. [[spoiler:She later falls off the wagon with oxycodone and cocaine at the end of Season 1]]. In Season 2 she goes into treatment for drug addiction once more.

* AsHimself: Mae Martin plays themself on the series, which is loosely based on their own life.

A 2020 British Channel 4 series, ''Feel Good'' is about Canadian queer stand-up comic Mae Martin ([[AsHimself as themself]]), in England dating closeted Englishwoman George Lawson. At the same time Mae, a former cocaine user, struggles with resisting falling back into using and handling her addiction.

* AsHimself: Mae Martin plays herself on the series, which is loosely based on her own life.

* LipstickLesbian: George (who is more of a lipstick bisexual), the woman she meets at the wedding and Laura are all feminine women with female lovers who have largely conventional looks.

* ShoutOut: Mae dresses up as Romeo in the ''[[WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet Romeo + Juliet]]'' costume to confess her love to George.

* ShoutOut: Mae dresses up as Romeo in the ''[[WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet Romeo + Juliet]]'' costume to confess their love to George

* TakeThat: James Bond as a role model is brough up by the addict Mae relapses with, and by George's immature dad.

* TokenMinority: Nick, a black guy who owns the club where Mae performs, is the only man of color in the main cast.