Issa Rae's "Insecure" HBO show

I'm an episode behind rn, but the girls' party episode was so good I kept thinking I wish that had been the series finale.

yeah that was a great episode

The finale was kind of whatever, but high Taurean in the episode prior might have been the funniest thing on the show

yeah i was kinda “eh”

but there is sonething really touching about the character journeys of Issa, Molly, even Lawrence. Like where they started and where they ended up, personally, emotionally etc.

The Kelly reveal in this ep was a bit much. too hand wavey, “yada yada and then this happened” like ok *whatnow*!??

The documentary special was pretty cool tho, lots of nice interviews w crew & showrunners. gave me a better feeling for the finale like “aw you guys”

Very disappointed by the Issa parts of the finale. A huge amount of Lawrence's assholishness was just handwaved away. I mean, he was shit from episode 1 and now he's there at the finish line? And Issa's the stepmother to his kid and ...happy about that? That said, Kelli's storyline was interesting, Molly's storyline was good... very much a mixed bag. But it made me laugh really fucking hard several times, especially when Lawrence called while Issa was in the bathroom and mirror-Issa said in full death metal voice, "DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE".

yeah that was good

also Kelli smacking Ahmal’s cup out of his hand at the birthday party

i can’t stand lawrence really at all but in the context of the show & Issa they really do seem to love each other so 🤷🏻‍♀️

slightly better nathan’s ghosting ass

Plot points aside this show ALWAYS makes me laugh, like a real LOL laugh. I am on ep 9, 10 min in and I already loled at Issa biting into a too-hot mac & chz ball. Relatable! That's part of what I love about this show.

i cant remember which episode but when she meets lawrence at that bar & falls flat on her face in front of everyone - i felt v seen in a delightful way lol

issa rae is pretty much my favorite physical comedian

Yeah, she's amazing. Her comedy feels so natural.

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2021 season is nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:

ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

Since this is the general issa rae thread -- is anyone watching RAP SH!T?!?! i am in love with this show. the episodes keep getting better and i don't think cliff is going to last after this last one. yikes.

i haven’t started yet but am looking forward to it!

Picking up the Rap Sh!t talk, this show is v v good

I was surprised and delighted to see there’s a new season!!

Season 2 isn’t quite the laugh riot of season 1 but it is still very enjoyable

Having watched ep 6 i had to go to the chat shit podcast

Lots of stuff happened in ep 6

chat shit hosts otm about duke/chastity and mia's mom
actually they are otm about everything but ^^^ is what i went to the chat shit for
also

oops i forgot to finish that last part -- also otm about mia and lamont

Ooh I guess I’d better dig into Chat Shit, I’m very curious what they have to say