The feudal tensions in the office are never explained. Also the two women’s hesitation toward Molly was never explored. When Taurean calls her “aggressive” we know that it’s a barb, but it’s complicated by the fact that they are of the same racial background. The most interesting work dynamics were Molly’s prickly interactions with her other black female counterparts and the show’s first, tentative explorations of black men’s misogyny directed at black women. But if a man had done what she did, he’d be an asshole, just as Molly is right now. She instead spins her bogarting the presentation into some sort of Girlboss feminist endeavor, highlighting that a man in her position would have been called enterprising and bold, not pushy.
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Molly took full credit for an assignment which had been a shared effort. This show is not feminist, but it does frequently put on a veneer of inoffensive feminist-lite sensibilities. Last week, she took charge of the presentation she had prepared with Taurean, a move that earned her praise from her superiors and iciness from Taurean.
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Molly’s myriad personality defects are most often displayed in the professional arena. Issa’s parents, as she mentioned on her date with Nathan, are divorced. A divorced woman should not be jarring, Lawrence! I also couldn’t shake the feeling that the main purpose of Lawrence’s sit-down with his dad was to assure us that he, like Molly, is the child of a two-parent, married household. I have friends who have been divorced or separated. She isn’t fretting over not having insurance or piled-up bills, she’s instead seeking self-fulfillment. They are, as Troy Patterson noted in an excellent review, “child(ren) of the black professional class exiled into the gig economy.” Issa is, if I remember correctly, only employed as a property manager part time, and supplementing her income by driving Lyft. The characters’ immaturity, or just their unfamiliarity with what are, to me, regular occurrences of late-20s living provide the greatest indicators of the show’s class positioning of its characters. “Every woman I went out with was either demanding, needy, divorced …” That he thinks nothing of placing divorced women in some category of undesirability is galling. Why is the show so invested in Lawrence’s interiority? HE SHOULDN’T EVEN BE HERE!!! He reveals to his handsome father that he wants commitment of the sort his parents had, but the women he’s meeting are some variety of dysfunctional. This show is decidedly much more focused on men than I’d ever anticipated. I cannot figure out why Lawrence was shown in a heart-to-heart with his parent while we’ve never seen Issa interact with hers. The back and forth makes for lively Twitter convos but I’m tired.
If he’s going to be a part of the friend group, à la Maxine and Kyle on Living Single, or even William from Girlfriends, I think the show needs to definitively decide whether he and Issa are romantic or not. I would prefer to know Issa better as opposed to more screen time being dedicated to Lawrence, who has been seamlessly integrated into the latter half of this season. It’s also, again, proof of how little the show commits to knowing its characters beyond a surface level.
I say this, not to nitpick, but because a show so focused on what feels like the generation-specific angst of its characters should be careful to sort out its characters ages.
But in season one, which premiered in 2016, Issa turned 29, meaning that this birthday should be her 31st. This episode revolves around a commemoration of Issa’s 30th birthday. Fittingly, the season finale is titled “Ghost-Like.” It’s as beautiful and enticingly shot as ever, with charming moments that remind you of what the show does best. I am finishing this season frustrated, and a little maddened by the show’s dredging up of old lovers and beaten-dead discussions and tropes. The show had a tendency of getting in its own way. There have been bursts of thrilling momentum (like Issa finally quitting her job) and long bouts of inertia that felt largely self-imposed. This season of Insecure has felt waterlogged.
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