![]() ![]() But even when its characters fail epically, as they often do, the show feels optimistic, a daydream of two goofy slobs pinballing through life, every obstacle they meet just something new to ricochet off. The show nails the texture of modern New York, from the breastfeeding crone who rules the food co-op (a fantastic cameo by Melissa Leo) to the needlessly bitchy sorority girl in line at a Williamsburg bakery. (A well-intentioned one! She was trying to advertise a deal on colonics.) They also raise the stakes, slightly, when Abbi scores a longed-for promotion to trainer, while Ilana gets promoted-and then almost immediately canned, after she tweets out a viral bestiality video. The first season was pretty much perfect, the second more hit-and-miss but the first three episodes of the new season are solid. One of the girls lives in Queens, the other in Brooklyn, but they’re glued together in ways that anyone who has been in one of those friendships might recognize: they text non-stop, Skype during sex (well, Ilana does), smoke up, cheerlead, and justify each other’s grossest mistakes. Ilana is a horndog narcissist who torments her co-workers at a Groupon-like Internet startup called Deals Deals Deals. Abbi is a klutzy romantic with a dead-end job, mopping up pubic hair at a health club called Soulstice and mooning after dudes in man buns. In the grand TV-sitcom tradition, Jacobson and Glazer play less driven, less competent versions of their younger selves. In a post-“Louie” world, in which all the best sitcoms deal in melancholy and rage, “Broad City” offers something zany, warmhearted, and sweetly liberatory, like a piñata spilling out Red Hots, Plan B, and pot snickerdoodles. Two years ago, when Jacobson and Glazer performed at the Bell House, in Brooklyn, the crowd around me was screaming as if we were at a Beatles concert, which maybe we were. ![]() From the start, the show attracted blazing devotees. In 2014, it evolved into a confident sitcom début on Comedy Central, produced by Amy Poehler. ![]() A stoner comedy about two woke girls, created by the best friends Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, “Broad City” launched, in 2009, as a set of shaggy, self-produced Web sketches. ![]()
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