Rob Delaney

Sharon Horgan and Delaney built Catastrophe as chemistry with a weapon: an accidental pregnancy, no soft-focus brochure, short seasons that do not pad. His Rob Norris is the American half of the mess — tender, filthy, a partner in catastrophe management rather than a sitcom husband hunt. Fisher in the mom orbit. Joke density as house style. Adult rom-com that still stings.

The 2015–2019 Catastrophe hour sits on Channel 4/Amazon as 2010s weather; Rob Norris is why the filing has a pulse. s01e01 is the door — Season one, first hour: Horgan and Delaney, accidental pregnancy, filthy tender Anglo-Irish-American, short and dense. s04e06 keeps the climate: Season four's last hour — Carrie Fisher's late-career mom still in orbit, adult rom-com without a Hallmark filter. The catalog wants temperature. Cue the hour. Skip the merch still.

Dying for Sex later put him in Michelle Williams’s terminal-diagnosis limited series: podcast origins, Jenny Slate as co-pilot, desire without a content-warning bow. Prestige television that lets a dying woman be funny and hungry. On TV Flash Delaney is the 2010s catalog’s honest body — the accidental family, then the limited-series nerve. Watch the first title for the weapon. Watch the second for the dare.

2020s craft, FX/Hulu paper: Dying for Sex (2025) keeps Neighbor on the call sheet. s01e01 is the door — Good Value Diet Soda as the podcast-origin door: Michelle Williams refusing weepiness and shock-for-hire, terminal diagnosis already a selfhood series. s01e08 keeps the climate: It's Not That Serious as the eight-episode close: the titled shrug, desire still without a content-warning bow, Jenny Slate still the co-pilot. Position, not plot. Neighbor is the work; the hour is how you find it.