The pose … Ilana style
Bingeing on Broad City — in denial that it's over — savoring every morsel during yesterday’s crap weather. In the last season, when juicy brilliant sexy Ilana squats a perfect Carrie pose — I was in sheer orgasmic joy to indulge in a Broads/Sex and the City comparison … Let's get into it.
I loved Sex and the City — and this feels cringey given how it went so wrong in the last seasons. But early on Sex was a heady cocktail of glitzy FUN and a love letter to NYC when it was still grimy around the edges. But have we come a long way in 15 years …
Now, I need to somehow be BFFs and date Ilana and Abbi. I never felt that way about Carrie and crew. Sure, I vicariously enjoyed their glam brunches — but all that man-focused banter got stale. Even my girl Samantha became a cartoon — a wise-acre stalking vagina. Trust me, 15 years ago IRL, we talked about our big LIVES — plus dating, but often men were passing appetizers — exactly the way Broads uses them. Five seasons in, I NEVER got bored with the Broads' adventures of discovery — self, city, art, men, drugs. In Sex they were about jobs, boyfriends, and apartments. With Broads, they are all about each other (and Molly) …
“ I’m 30 plus years older than these two beautiful GBs, Ilana and Abbi, but THEY are who I relate to ...”
In that last episode of Broads, when Ilana and Abbi walk forward for themselves, NOTHING to do with men, EVERYTHING to do with their badass friendship — and we pan to the women of New York — bopping along with their BFFs — well, I had a tissue fest goin’ on. I’m 30 plus years older than these two beautiful GBs, but THEY are who I relate to. Comparing that to the idiotic end of Sex, when they all “get their men”— and live happily ever after — I have no connection to that BS then or now. I am a Broad at heart — I love my women friends — we put each other first — and are sexy, funny and free — with or without men.
We can blame the 90’s for a lot of Sex and the City’s bizarre decisions and shitty last episodes, but did Sex’s man obsession have something to do with being created and produced by a man, Darren Starr (even with Sara’s input) versus created by two women, Abbi and Ilana, and produced by Amy Poehler? “I Can’t Help But Wonder” ...