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Broad City#100
Posted: 3/12/15 at 11:10pmI just watched last night's episode. Dare I say best use of guest stars in a comedy in a long time?
Broad City#101
Posted: 3/12/15 at 11:14pmYas queen! I kept thinking, wow, Kelly Ripa is a reallllly good sport.
Broad City#102
Posted: 3/13/15 at 8:27amWhich male prostitute would you have picked?
Broad City#103
Posted: 3/13/15 at 10:41amI would have split an order.
Broad City#104
Posted: 3/13/15 at 11:38amAnd then ordered Domino's for after.
Broad City#105
Posted: 3/13/15 at 12:14pm
If I could only have one, I would take the non-caucasian, but I wouldn't have refused the other. Provided I can't have Trey, of course.
Updated On: 3/13/15 at 12:14 PM
Broad City#106
Posted: 3/13/15 at 12:26pmTrey is clearly always top of the list.
Broad City#107
Posted: 3/16/15 at 8:17pm
I saw this and thought of the good folks in this thread. Not everybody loves it as much as you...
LA Review of Books
Broad City#108
Posted: 3/16/15 at 8:42pmSo many "I" statements. I'll have to read it on a bigger screen than my phone because their #ableist font is #problematic. It's safe to assume the LA Review of Books consist completely of transcribed discussions of television?
Broad City#109
Posted: 3/16/15 at 9:41pm
"Some people spend much of their lives cleaning up after others. Many of them are working poor, working class, immigrants, and people of color. So the show’s joke relies on the idea that people who clean are not, should not be, people like Abbi."
Sigh. Really? (To elaborate, they think the show doesn't say that people should have the job they want and not have to clean toilets, but rather that these middle class, white people should have the job they want and not clean toilets.) That whole article--it seems to be complaining because the show isn't what they want it to be--but the show never claimed it was the kind of show they wanted. (If that makes any sense, but it's no less convulated than their argument.)
"“Precariat chick TV” seems to turn more than a bit on how incongruent it is for white girls to live demeaning lives. So when people like me are accused of being oversensitive when we don’t like some forms of comedy, we are often being criticized for not being drawn in by comedy that makes fun of people like us, or people we love, or people we think should get more respect."
Ummm. Right.
"The most intense moment for me was when they return all of these office products, hoping to get money, but instead they get a gift card they can only use in the store. It stressed me out! But for them, and for the audience, it’s comic. And the thing is: it’s only if you experience poverty or abjection as a state that you are going to move through, or that doesn’t adhere to your own body or your value in the world, that you can find comedy in that."
OK, and then the American Horror comparison with their fans. And then ending the piece by saying there's a lot that's good in Broad City just not enough (or something.)
Broad City#110
Posted: 3/16/15 at 9:55pm
I just read that whole thing wondering how I was going to explain my reaction to it, but the authors did me a solid when I got to this - I am just annoyed when they don’t or won’t see that they are loving something that might be racist or sexist or classist - because I think about that shít all the time. I thought about it a lot when I was a little removed from my Kimmy Schmidt binge. But I have never thought about it when it comes to Broad City.
Updated On: 3/16/15 at 09:55 PM
Broad City#111
Posted: 3/16/15 at 10:50pmI just think it's problematic to suddenly think that BC is commenting on race by having Abbi do a job that she sees as beneath her--I obviously overthink tv too much myself, but I have no idea where such a leap is coming from--as someone said in the comments, if anything the joke seems to be more about the fact that the women are smart enough to pursue "better" jobs, but much of the time can't really be bothered to.
Broad City#112
Posted: 3/17/15 at 12:28am
Was this a TV-related springboard from that great article a while back that explained how the maxim "Do what you love!" was insensitive to actual working people and completely tone deaf to class privilege because MOST people in the world don't have that luxury (take THAT Oprah!)? Because that article made sense.
Broad City#113
Posted: 3/17/15 at 9:57amThat article reads like a word salad to me. It goes off on tangents and then cycles back to "I don't like this because it's not what I think it should be." It's very hard to actually discern the roots of their opinions.
Broad City#114
Posted: 3/17/15 at 10:58amWell, you know, LA Review of Books.
Broad City#116
Posted: 3/17/15 at 11:31amIf this is how they talk about television, I'm not sure I want to see how they discuss books.
Broad City#117
Posted: 3/17/15 at 12:08pm
Here's another comment that's appeared under it
Ugh also the show is so not good around queer stuff. I feel like a central joke is that Ilana is in love with Abbi. Like so many gay jokes. Because a woman loving another woman is ridiculous, hilarious, whatever
I really feel like these people are watching a different show than I.
Broad City#118
Posted: 3/17/15 at 12:14pm
I think the show handles queerness better than pretty much any other television show- possibly ever.
The women in the article are so busy barely articulating their thoughts, they manage to totally avoid talking about the ways the show excels.
Broad City#119
Posted: 3/17/15 at 12:49pmWow, I didn't realize the LA Review of Books published Tumblr posts.
Broad City#121
Posted: 3/17/15 at 4:00pm
There don't seem to be enough gifs of dicks to be a real Tumblr, though.
That article has cemented the fact that I am going to go back and finish catching up on BC, though.
Broad City#122
Posted: 3/18/15 at 3:49am
Any show is fair game to examine from different points of view--and I suppose Broad City is fair game to examine as a piece of white privilege. But I just don't buy any of their criticism. The just feels like "Well so many of my friends love this show! Why can't they see why *I* don't love it." At first I thought they had only watched the first episode, but later comments make it sound like they have seen most of them--
Author Rebbeca Wonzor is a self confessed chick lit genre whore. She loves and wants more fiction written by women about women. I can get behind that. But her basic statement about the issue with Broad City is: "Poverty, struggle, and comedy have long gone together. But I think I enjoy such comedy more when it turns on the idea that nobody should live like this, vs. the idea that specific types of people shouldn’t live like this."
Are we watching different shows? I don't think this really is what Broad City is about anyway (that poverty and struggle create wacky comedy,) but I certainly don't see it being about the fact that only *specific types* of people shouldn't live amongst poverty and struggle.
"Some people spend much of their lives cleaning up after others. Many of them are working poor, working class, immigrants, and people of color. So the show’s joke relies on the idea that people who clean are not, should not be, people like Abbi."
No it's not. We don't see Abbi surrounded by people who lack intelligence and are poor and/or people of colour also cleaning toilets with her and see them derided for what they do.
Broad City#123
Posted: 3/19/15 at 9:54am
The show also makes it pretty clear that Abbi is not very qualified for the trainer position she wants so much, which is part of the joke. The show doesn't do much to show that Abbi is qualified or deserving of better career positions in her life.
The article's half-hearted attempts at criticizing the depicition of race in the show are annoying, too- considering that Lincoln is a pretty great recurring character.
As for the finale: Patricia Clarkson slayed me.
Broad City#124
Posted: 3/20/15 at 10:01am"I also want everyone I've ever hooked up with to just jerk off together. That might bring me back to life, seriously."
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