[5] Creator and show-runner Ira Parker wrote the pilot script, which was meant to feel like a play, when he was in graduate school c. 2011.
[4][2] It was set and filmed in Toronto,[8] including the Patrician Grill on King Street East[9] and Massey Hall.
Journalist Bill Harris wrote that 4 a.m. marked the behavioural dividing line between "people heading to work rather than staggering home".
[10] Journalist Melita Kuburas wrote that the show is about the moments when the effects of alcohol wear off which "reveal tender, sweet and sad aspects of young adulthood.
[10] John Doyle of The Globe and Mail described the show as "an honest expression of twentysomething angst and confusion" and found it compelling, humorous and touching.