“I’m not gonna be a tax expert overnight,” she reasons. She ends up stuffing her crumpled forms and receipts into an envelope to send to her parents. Between the marijuana, the dentist’s nitrous oxide, and her own native qualities, she seems increasingly unlikely to succeed in the goal of doing her taxes. After a few false starts, Abbi strikes gold. Ilana is going to do her own taxes instead of getting help from her parents. Abbi is going to buy her own pot instead of bumming Ilana’s. In one episode, the friends set modest goals for self-improvement. They give new life to typical stoner hijinks and, at the same time, reduce post-college existential concerns to what feels like their rightful scale: tiny. Watching “Broad City” for the first time, you might have the feeling that Abbi and Ilana have ruined you for any sincere treatment of the subject matter. ![]() ![]() “Broad City” burlesques the material that other cable and network shows like “Girls,” “New Girl,” and “2 Broke Girls” have been working with-namely, young women mating and underachieving in New York. You don’t have to watch for long to see how both of these claims might be true. They wear a combination of ‘flea market vintage, American Apparel, H&M.’ They smoke so much weed.” On the other hand, the show is “appealingly detached from the boring constraints of realism,” writes Emily Nussbaum in The New Yorker, thus its “deranged” charm. They are feminists who call each other ‘dude.’ They have so many inside jokes that listening to them can be like trying to decipher a code. ![]() “They are truly casual about sex, not simply feigning detachment in the name of empowerment. The show’s main characters, two slacker friends played by Upright Citizens Brigade alumnae Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, remind the critic of her own circle. “Ilana and Abbi are our people,” writes Ann Friedman on The Guardian’s TV and radio blog. Before I had seen “Broad City,” I read reviews that praised the new Comedy Central show for two seemingly contradictory qualities: It was realistic, and it was not realistic.
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