It fits with the world and, more importantly, the show’s sexually crazed twosome. It’s a raunchiness that never feels over the top and unnecessary, despite the extremes to which it goes. Bestiality viral videos and pubic hair straightening can’t kneecap the show’s sweet side – they (and I can’t believe I’m saying this either) only enhance it. The two are such undying cheerleaders for one another that it’s wholly infectious to become invested in their deeply odd whirlwind shenanigans. Lesser shows would crumble under the weight of that forced handicap after the pilot, but Broad City only wears it like a badge of honor. The only thing that matters are these two. It’s the perfect microcosm of what Broad City does best: it’s not about the overarching plot of an episode, or what’s going on anywhere that Abbi and Ilana aren’t.
#Soulstice broad city full
In a majestic split-screen opening sequence full of minuscule, nuanced character gags that’ll reward the show’s fans, we see a year pass for the girls from the single view of their bathroom toilets. Ilana is still working (every other day) for Deals Deals Deals and tangentially, kind of, dating dentist Lincoln (Hannibal Buress). Abbi’s barely getting by at Soulstice, although she’s finally managed to shirk most of her pubic hair removal duties for a gig teaching water aerobics to the elderly. In Broad City‘s third year, not much has changed for Abbi and Ilana.
They’re crass, ridiculous messes, but the show encapsulating them isn’t about the existentialism they face in attempting to iron those messes out, but (refreshingly, blessedly, honestly I could hug them) about the hilarity they get into while simply trying to survive until tomorrow. There’s almost no possible way to logically and sanely defend a show whose heroines believe that everyone’s asshole “has an identity – a soul, an ‘ass-soul’ if you will.” But here I am, and here I will be for the next 900 words or so, sharing my totally illogical and insane appreciation for my two favorite television best friends: Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer.
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