Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer are back for another season of deeply satisfying, gleefully vulgar slapstick and cultural commentary, as Broad City returns for a third season on Comedy Central Wednesday night.
The season premiere opens with a bravura sequence: A split-screen shot of Abbi and Ilana in the bathrooms of their respective New York City apartments. In a series of jump cuts, we watch them spend a year in that tiny room — a no dialogue display of how to use that cramped place with a toilet as a site for all sorts of extra-curricular activities. The scene is Broad City’s triumphant announcement that it’s back, bursting the confines of space with every aspect of life that the show is capable of presenting.
Jacobson and Glazer defy the usual portrayals of friendship on television. Each is an independent agent who never doubts the other’s loyalty, yet neither is ever reduced to guilt-tripping neediness or easy-joke squabbling. They seize upon the most ordinary New York situations: the premiere is basically about the duo sitting around at an outdoor café planning to attend an art gallery opening, Ilana losing the key to her bicycle security chain, and Abby having to buy a shirt for the gallery event.
The season premiere opens with a bravura sequence: A split-screen shot of Abbi and Ilana in the bathrooms of their respective New York City apartments. In a series of jump cuts, we watch them spend a year in that tiny room — a no dialogue display of how to use that cramped place with a toilet as a site for all sorts of extra-curricular activities. The scene is Broad City’s triumphant announcement that it’s back, bursting the confines of space with every aspect of life that the show is capable of presenting.
Jacobson and Glazer defy the usual portrayals of friendship on television. Each is an independent agent who never doubts the other’s loyalty, yet neither is ever reduced to guilt-tripping neediness or easy-joke squabbling. They seize upon the most ordinary New York situations: the premiere is basically about the duo sitting around at an outdoor café planning to attend an art gallery opening, Ilana losing the key to her bicycle security chain, and Abby having to buy a shirt for the gallery event.
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