ah fuck it it's the BROAD CITY thread

New season starting on British tv I think, I have it through Irish cable, this Friday with recap of Series 4 started last night.
Was wondering what had happened to this.

So is that concurrent with first US showing?

Starts Thursday night here.

saw it this morning, still quote fun.
Are either of them going onto anything else if this is the last season?

The instagram episode was good

please no celebrity guests

please

The "SheWork" subplot in the last episode was very similar to this recent Improv Everywhere bit:
https://improveverywhere.com/2018/11/13/phone-booth-coworking/

This final season has been great fwiw

Keep meaning to catch up before it ends. Watching Girls atm so good convergence I guess.

Last night’s episode was solid. There was a gratuitous celebrity cameo but thankfully it was a fairly minor subplot. Less zany than some episodes with some good character development and some good jokes that landed.

all ended really nicely, great show imo

Finally started this new season. I am going to miss this.

I was reading a piece on jezebel? maybe and the writer never realized Broad City could be "broad" as in "a woman." I had never even thought that it might mean "broad" as in "vast".

Final tableau was beautiful. I haven't cared about TV characters like this since I can remember.

i didn't always love this show. found there to be some fallow periods and often, as so common in american comedy, their UCBisms could be wearying to me.

thought they ended it fantastically well. genuinely cared about the characters. they went out at the right time and in the right way. chapeau

The end was pretty great.

the show struggled with consistency with some pretty bad episodes but the highs were great and there were enough of them imo . I think they wrapped it up nicely .

has anybody watched the Ilana Glazer standup special cuz I couldn't finish it and I have thoughts

no but it came up as an advertisement and the clip they showed was so unfunny i'm unlikely to ever watch it

i thought it was pretty damn dire & regretted finishing it

I felt it was sorta like the Jenny Slate thing where it was a person who generally is funny but who hasn't fully figured out how standup sets work.

But the other thing that bothered me was all the gender/sexuality stuff, where she's pledging solidarity (ok, great!) but then also weirdly undermining that solidarity at the same time. And I don't mean that she's a hetero woman that's married to a hetero man. For example, she talks about discussing gender identity with one of her lesbian friends and talking about what they "feel" like ("70% female/30% male") and my reaction was - waitaminit, what is this weird gender normative division she's enthusiastically blathering about? What part of her psyche is she identifying as "male" (apparently the horny, aggressive side)? Isn't characterizing those things as male (and all the other stuff - being domestic, cutesy, etc. as female) part of the whole problem? Isn't the ideal goal to disassociate behaviors we all engage in, to varying degrees, from gender, and just see them as stuff people do (or don't do), regardless of gender identity?

you shoulda hung in for her big closing bit, which was about how old movies are bad because the women in them talk funny

there were funny lines/bits scattered throughout but yeah this was... not well thought out

i was rolling my eyes pretty hard at the stage with barbed wire at the lip, as if the edgy truths of this Modern-Day Philosopher are so dangerous that the audience will need protection

agreed that this was almost entirely unfunny. i've seen her do stand-up in shorter form with more success

the bit shakey mentioned is about as far as I got

this was spectacularly poor.

how muted the laughs are despite the fact that the audience is positively willing for the show to be good and to give the benefit of the doubt is quite jarring. very strong cult of personality vibes

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2019 season is nominated in the 2019 ILX TV poll:

ILX's Best Television of 2019 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends January 31

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (4 minimum, 25 maximum, organized by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail by end of day today. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

lmao - I came to this thread because Ilana is touring through my neck of the woods and wanted to see if anyone knows what her show consists of, if it's any good, etc. Then I scrolled ever so slightly upthread and saw a unanimous consensus that her standup special is horrible. Anyone have a different opinion? New show more worth seeing? Something other than straight standup? I haven't watched the special and no plan to based on the above commentary but it doesn't surprise me tbh that her whole thing might leave a very different impression without Abby to balance, they have a very precise and possibly delicate dynamic