TMC
03-29-2019, 06:35 PM
https://tv.avclub.com/goodbyes-are-hard-but-broad-city-nails-its-series-fina-1833653254
"All the promos for this final season teased a big dramatic ending with images like Abbi and Ilana hanging on for dear life off the side of a building," says Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya. "And in actuality, this ending is a big dramatic ending! It might not be literally explosive, but it sure is emotionally....That kind of intensity and emotional potency is what makes Abbi and Ilana such a special friendship. You don’t see stuff like that on television a lot. Their friendship has always been complex and fully believable. It’s the kind of romantic friendship between women that feels often impossible to describe, and yet this show paints such a clear picture of it. Their friendship indeed has many times looked like a romantic relationship, even at times being a bit sexual, which ties into how this show has always felt very queer in its DNA even before it was explicitly so. This is not a typical friendship for television, and Broad City has rarely ever felt conventional, slightly anarchic in its approach to storytelling. Broad City knows it’s impossible to sum up a friendship with a simple description, so it spent five seasons just showing us what Abbi and Ilana’s relationship looks like over and over, creating something beautiful amid all the zany shenanigans."
ALSO:
The series finale was surprisingly sweet and sincere (https://slate.com/culture/2019/03/broad-city-series-finale-review-abbi-ilana-say-goodbye.html)
Broad City's legacy should be how seriously it took Abbi and Ilana’s game-changing friendship (https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/broad-city-series-finale-review-season-5-1203175715/)
The final scene showed that Abbi and Ilana's relationship is exceptional but not, as it turns out, extraordinary (https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/03/the-broad-city-finale-captured-the-shows-ethos-perfectly/586051/)
This season has given them the best possible send-off, by showing them in their most flattering light (https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/mar/29/bye-bye-broad-city-thank-you-kweens-youre-the-best-in-the-wizness)
The series finale showed Broad City wasn't really just about Abbi and Ilana, but about cherishing those friends who love you unconditionally (https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2019/03/29/broad-city-series-finale-perfectly-captures-best-friendship/3294616002/)
The five most innovative episodes of Broad City (https://filmschoolrejects.com/broad-city-most-innovative-episodes/)
Abby and Ilana took a lot of time figuring out the right tone for the series finale (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/broad-city-series-finale-ilana-glazer-abbi-jacobson-interview-1197968): "I love the f*cking show," says Glazer. "I feel freer now to unabashedly say that I think this is one of the best shows, ever."
"All the promos for this final season teased a big dramatic ending with images like Abbi and Ilana hanging on for dear life off the side of a building," says Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya. "And in actuality, this ending is a big dramatic ending! It might not be literally explosive, but it sure is emotionally....That kind of intensity and emotional potency is what makes Abbi and Ilana such a special friendship. You don’t see stuff like that on television a lot. Their friendship has always been complex and fully believable. It’s the kind of romantic friendship between women that feels often impossible to describe, and yet this show paints such a clear picture of it. Their friendship indeed has many times looked like a romantic relationship, even at times being a bit sexual, which ties into how this show has always felt very queer in its DNA even before it was explicitly so. This is not a typical friendship for television, and Broad City has rarely ever felt conventional, slightly anarchic in its approach to storytelling. Broad City knows it’s impossible to sum up a friendship with a simple description, so it spent five seasons just showing us what Abbi and Ilana’s relationship looks like over and over, creating something beautiful amid all the zany shenanigans."
ALSO:
The series finale was surprisingly sweet and sincere (https://slate.com/culture/2019/03/broad-city-series-finale-review-abbi-ilana-say-goodbye.html)
Broad City's legacy should be how seriously it took Abbi and Ilana’s game-changing friendship (https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/broad-city-series-finale-review-season-5-1203175715/)
The final scene showed that Abbi and Ilana's relationship is exceptional but not, as it turns out, extraordinary (https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/03/the-broad-city-finale-captured-the-shows-ethos-perfectly/586051/)
This season has given them the best possible send-off, by showing them in their most flattering light (https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/mar/29/bye-bye-broad-city-thank-you-kweens-youre-the-best-in-the-wizness)
The series finale showed Broad City wasn't really just about Abbi and Ilana, but about cherishing those friends who love you unconditionally (https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2019/03/29/broad-city-series-finale-perfectly-captures-best-friendship/3294616002/)
The five most innovative episodes of Broad City (https://filmschoolrejects.com/broad-city-most-innovative-episodes/)
Abby and Ilana took a lot of time figuring out the right tone for the series finale (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/broad-city-series-finale-ilana-glazer-abbi-jacobson-interview-1197968): "I love the f*cking show," says Glazer. "I feel freer now to unabashedly say that I think this is one of the best shows, ever."