You Should be Watching Broad City.

Tell a friend to tell a friend.

Two women stand outside of a New York basketball park watching men play a pickup game.  They talk to each other in short bursts, shouting out numbers for each man the camera focuses on.  Allow me to HEAVILY paraphrase the conversation.  “oh ,that guys a 5.”  “him over there, I’d say a 10.”  “10? Him?”  “yeah, he’s AT LEAST TEN INCHES.”  “what, we’re measuring dick size?” “yeah, what else would we be talking about?”

The Missy "Rain" Suit meets that Drake song I never really heard.

 This is the charm of “Broad City”, which I’ve described to people as “’Workaholics’ meets a show where people actually have sex” to anyone who would listen.  It follow two 20 something women through New York City as they engage in work, parties, errands and shenanigans, with their success rate for each activity usually being on the minus side.  They want to be lazy and successful all at once, and do everything they can to get in the way of their own achievements.

EpiPen Hulk.

Originally created as a series of webisodes, the show debuted on the bottom of the hour after workaholics, and stuck a similar chord with me, the kind of aimless wandering/ self importance/ irrational confidence that is your 20’s.  The series opens with the principles, Abbi and Illana, skyping via laptop.  What Abbi doesn’t realize is that Illana is going full cowgirl on her sometimes boyfriend (they’re talking, and it’s understood they aren’t exclusive) while playing Lil’ Wayne’s “A Milli” on her laptop.  Illana’s free spirit juxtaposed with Abbi’s constant worrying creates most of the show’s good moments, even though Abbi tends to loosen up every now and again, usually to her own detriment.

Hannibal Burress - Skype GAWD.

 The season finale that recently aired is a celebration of Abbi’s birthday.  She pulls out the one nice dress she owns, and Illana wears a revealing halter top/ skirt combo to the fanciest restaurant they can think of.  They request the table they heard Jay and Beyonce sat at on a previous night, Illana forces her own shellfish allergy to surface, and Abby accidentally stabs herself with Illana’s EpiPen, invoking superhuman reflexes.  All while the other patrons watch in shock.  Also, Abbi pees out a condom.  That’s been inside of her for FOUR days.  Laughs all around.

They woke up like this.

 They have sex, to varying degrees of success, they sit in the park and smoke weed, and where Abbi struggles with relationships, Illana seems to have a never ending string of successful hookups.  But the payoff to the show is that the defeats are funny, and even the victories are small, few and far between.  Although a bit fantastic, Broad City is a fresh take on the comedy genre, and is a great companion to the stoner/slacker romp that is “Workaholics”. 

"Broad City" airs Wednesdays at 10:30/9:30 CT on Comedy Central.