ah fuck it it's the BROAD CITY thread

the dirtbagginess of Abby and Ilana that reminds me of people I know much more than any other "young single people living in New York" TV characters that I find really unrelatable.

this is super OTM.

As mentioned I was watching this recently with my parents and there were a handful of dirtbag situations that Abby and Ilana found themselves where I almost said, "Ha! That's happened to me!" but then remembered I was watching this with my parents and kept quiet.

something about seeing this guy enrages me so much that I just can't bring myself to ever consider watching it

nah he's the least annoying one by far

where are people watching new Broad City btw? like, actual cable or less-than-legal channels? i don't really mess around with either. :/

iTunes. I could easily get it freely from any number of sources but I want to support these chicas.

I want to watch the first season all over again. I keep thinking about it and laughing. I was just thinking about when Ilana was stealing the lotion from the gym in a bag and blurted out, "It's khiels!". That would have been me. At my old job, the tampon machines were always unlocked and stocked with tampax pretty much daily. I used to go to different floors with my reusable grocery bags and stock up. I didn't buy my own for the entire 3+ years that I worked there.

Since ppl are takling comedy central, has anyone watched @midnight? It's pretty good!

@midnight is great though it varies depending on guests...the one last week(i don't watch them all just now and again) with Maron, John Hodgman and Jen Kirkman was really funny. I didn't expect Maron would be good on that show but they all killed it.

Watched that one last night! :)

And, yeah, it was really good but JH needs to stop whatever he's doing with his facial hair. It's NAGL.

I really like Jen Kirkman. I want to be friends with her.

re: The League, I remember S2 being legitimately great, with diminishing returns after that.

even though there are people I like in the League I can't get past watching a show about fantasy football or whatever, something I find even more bafflingly ridiculous than actual football

ppl upthread otm about comedy central being legit good recently. bc is probably the best, but review and nathan for you are both extremely fucking hilarious too (not sure if either has been renewed?)

tho workaholics is funny for about 5 minutes and quickly wears out its welcome, and kroll show is pretty dire all around imo

fantasy sports are great, it's like the combination of statistics nerdos and rpg nerdos. the league is like a show about people who play dungeons and dragons with occasional guest star spots from the actual dragons and dwarves and elves

yeah no thx

I watched a couple episodes of Kroll Show and while it had its moments it was really just too aggressively ugly for me to enjoy, also lots of shooting fish in a barrel sorta stuff with the TV show parodies

Review was renewed for second season

The fantasy football aspect of The League is almost arbitrary. You could replace the sports fandom with music or film geekery and it wouldn't change the show really at all. It's too bad since that's the #1 reason people won't watch it.

The fantasy football thing also kind of makes you think it's going to be along the lines of, say, Arli$$. Arli$$ meets Entourage.

yeah, I avoided The League for years based on that assumption (and the terrible CC ads for it)

Nathan For You is coming back too

Damn this show is great. LOLling at them just carrying bags of ice around town.

fyi last night's episode is up on cc.com and doesn't require a tv provider (at least in the us).

This is fun - Broad City interviewing Sleater Kinney:

http://www.npr.org/event/music/378668756/we-cant-just-settle-broad-city-meets-sleater-kinney?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20150121

The fantasy sports aspect of the League is as inconsequential as its LA-as-Chicago setting, or the fact that some characters have kids, somewhere, sometimes. It's mostly the people ripping on each other, and given the level of the comedians usually pays off at least a few times per episode.

Watched and liked this first new BC. It captures being young and in New York so well that my wife and I were basically, like, fuck New York, even if we were young that place sucks, how does anyone live there?

But yeah, Review was so fucked up and dark that my wife basically gonged it outright and told me to watch it on my own time.

i think i mentioned this but i watched all of review in one night and by the end i was just so so sad

esp after the pancakes ep

Forrest MacNeil is not a real person guys

but I saw him on TV?

anyway did everyone see the Broad City/Sleater-Kinney panel interview thin

apparently Review's second season barely got picked up, and only after a significant budget decrease, so, uh, tell yr friends to watch it when it comes back

Forrest MacNeil is not a real person guys

i'm not sure what this means? are you saying that ppl shouldn't have emotional reactions to works of fiction?

I just can't really fathom taking it seriously, it's such a farce...? Unless you were really sad because you thought it was terrible and a waste of your time or something.

i guess even as a farce i was able to empathize on some level w/ macneil completely destroying his life and everything that made him happy, and the suffering he felt when it happened. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That is totally the magic of Andy Daly. It doesn't matter how fucking stupid and ridiculous and evil any character he plays is -- when he injects a little bit of sadness into the character I always buy it. see also the guy from Eastbound & Down. no matter how much ridiculousness they buried that character in he was still as balievable as any of the characters they /tried/ to make empathetic.

i don't want to say underrated bc i feel everyone probably has the same opinion on andy daly, but yeah. a legit top 5 living comedic actor.

I agree Daly's great, love him in E&D etc. But yeah I don't feel emotionally invested in Forrest MacNeil, esp because all of his problems stem from his largely unacknowledged pathology (ie the need to be on TV)

kinda want some pancakes now though

wait. I've never seen review, but I thought that was Kurt Braunohler. Weird.

i think i have to watch that show again b/c i sort of disagree but i can't articulate why. but also fuck it, this is the broad city thread.

xp haha i was thinking of mentioning kurt braunohler and how I still occasionally confuse him & andy daly!

esp because all of his problems stem from his largely unacknowledged pathology (ie the need to be on TV)

That and an obsession with the weird rules he set out for himself that he feels the need to follow absolutely.

that's part of what makes me sad! i think it's a dramatization of the way humans destroy their lives by following weird rules that they make up for themselves, and only realize too late that it was never worth it

yeah so many people go for the easy "let's make this guy a sharklike mindless psychopath and let the humour come from there" angle when an angle like that is so much more a) funnier and b) true and c) tragic

not to be all whatever but why is the last fifty posts in the broad city thread about other shows starring men

agreed, this is seriously off track

is there a Review thread? happy to take it there. sorry for derail

lol yeah i was like oh people are talking about Broad City.

anyways i was a little too wasted while watching last night but i don't remember any huge laughs

idk i thought ilana and the interns were pretty great

bet u ilana wouldn't thread police