TMC
03-10-2016, 06:58 PM
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/02/the-triumph-of-the-platonic-rom-com/463200/
As Megan Garber notes, "Abbi and Ilana share, basically, what a lot of young women—and young men—share in this age of delayed marriage and emergent adulthood and platonic roommates and geographic peripateticism and economic prosperity and economic uncertainty: a friendship that occupies the psychic space that used to be devoted to spouses and children.” PLUS: Meet the real-life couple (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/arts/television/the-secret-weapons-of-broad-city-makefine-art-fromcrude-humor.html) that form Broad City’s secret slapstick weapon, Season 3 takes the slapstick to new heights (http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/02/17/broad_city_season_3_with_abbi_jacobson_and_ilana_glazer_reviewed.html), Abbi and Ilana get trippy with Stephen Colbert, Abbi and Ilana talk (http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/02/17/broad_city_s_abbi_jacobson_and_ilana_glazer_take_stephen_colbert_to_happy.html) about the pressure putting together this season, and Broad City works because Abbi and Ilana are truly in love with each other (http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/feb/17/broad-city-season-three-tv-highlights-of-the-year).
As Megan Garber notes, "Abbi and Ilana share, basically, what a lot of young women—and young men—share in this age of delayed marriage and emergent adulthood and platonic roommates and geographic peripateticism and economic prosperity and economic uncertainty: a friendship that occupies the psychic space that used to be devoted to spouses and children.” PLUS: Meet the real-life couple (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/arts/television/the-secret-weapons-of-broad-city-makefine-art-fromcrude-humor.html) that form Broad City’s secret slapstick weapon, Season 3 takes the slapstick to new heights (http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/02/17/broad_city_season_3_with_abbi_jacobson_and_ilana_glazer_reviewed.html), Abbi and Ilana get trippy with Stephen Colbert, Abbi and Ilana talk (http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/02/17/broad_city_s_abbi_jacobson_and_ilana_glazer_take_stephen_colbert_to_happy.html) about the pressure putting together this season, and Broad City works because Abbi and Ilana are truly in love with each other (http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/feb/17/broad-city-season-three-tv-highlights-of-the-year).