Broad City nails its series finale and the difficulty of saying goodbye - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TMC · 03-29-2019, 06:35 PM

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"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."

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03-29-2019, 06:35 PM	#1
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 126,264	Broad City nails its series finale and the difficulty of saying goodbye https://tv.avclub.com/goodbyes-are-h...ina-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 Broad City's legacy should be how seriously it took Abbi and Ilana’s game-changing friendship The final scene showed that Abbi and Ilana's relationship is exceptional but not, as it turns out, extraordinary This season has given them the best possible send-off, by showing them in their most flattering light The series finale showed Broad City wasn't really just about Abbi and Ilana, but about cherishing those friends who love you unconditionally The five most innovative episodes of Broad City Abby and Ilana took a lot of time figuring out the right tone for the series finale: "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."