Trying(2020)

Trying follows Jason and Nikki through the adoption process, and the comedy grows almost entirely from how ordinary and well-meaning they are when the system demands they prove it. Bureaucratic hoops, home visits, and panel assessments become genuinely funny because the stakes feel real; these are two people who want something badly and keep stumbling over their own nerves trying to look like they have it together.

The screwball energy mostly lives in the supporting cast, friends and family who arrive with their own chaos at exactly the wrong moments. But the show never lets that noise swamp the couple themselves. Jason and Nikki's relationship is warm without being saccharine, and their small private moments, a quiet conversation, a shared look after something goes sideways, carry as much weight as any of the bigger comic set pieces.