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Broad City has consistently strong cold opens. Bedbugs opens with Abbi and Ilana driving around in the convertible Ilana got out of their trip to Florida earlier in the season. At first, theyre riding the high of having a car in New York...until its time to park. Anyone who has ever had to deal with street parking in New York knows its a hellscape. Broad City is brilliant in these moments that take a specific aspect of New York life and mine it for relatable and organic comedy. The sequence is barely even exaggerated for comedic effect. Abbi directs Ilana into a tight spot only to then realize its in front of a driveway. After a long search, they think they see a spot, become excited and relieved, and then come crashing back down when they realize theres a fire hydrant. Eventually, they give up entirely. Its a tragic play. Its a slice of New York life. Its a great cold open that doesnt have to try too hard to be funny. Broad City shows the extreme highs and lows of living in New York, and Bedbugs is full of that emotional whiplash.

And that easy, understated humor permeates Bedbugs, the second episode of the season to be directed by Ilana Glazer. I liked her directorial debut Florida, but theres something more confident and cohesive about Bedbugs, which sees both Ilana and Abbi through two personal lows. Still out of a job and forced to turn in cans and bottles for a few bucks, Abbis luck turns around after Ilana bestows her with an absurdly expensive bag. Suddenly, Abbis living in a romcom version of New York or, more accurately, a romcom version of New York filtered through the wacky lens of Broad City. Glazers direction plays up the romance with sweeping camerawork, but a masturbating guy on the street reminds that the romanticized Hollywood version of New York isnt real. Even artists with successful work showing around the world are broke.

Abbis bag confidence peaks when she goes into Anthropologie, a store so ridiculously overpriced that it seems to exist on a different plane. Sure enough, Abbis little voyage into Anthropologie has an almost fantastical vibe to it as she sniffs the perfect display of candles and wanders the stores sacred halls. The bags magic is short-lived. Abbi comes crashing back to reality when a mugger, played by Steve Buscemi, holds her up and takes her to her local bodega to take out money. When he sees her bank account, hes appalled and starts lecturing her on the importance of having money for emergencies and being more proactive about her equity. A mugger lecturing Abbi on her finances is just the right amount of absurd, heightened but still grounded, underscoring just how dire her financial situation is.

Its not Buscemi with the best guest performance of the episode but rather Zephyr Ingle as Massouma, the girl who works at the bodega. Abbi comes to the bodega enough for Massouma to know her by name but Abbi doesnt know hers. Ingle plays Massoumas annoyance at Abbi with a perfectly straight-face. Broad City sprinkles its universe with fun and specific one-off characters, and Massouma is a great example. Shes funny, but shes also more than just a bit character. And the episode places her in the larger context of the shows universe: She and Ilana are tight enough to have each others phone numbers. Abbi comes off looking like a dumb white bitch, as she puts it herself. If you dont know the names of the people who ring you up at the bodega on a near daily basis, youre kind of a shitty person, and Broad City acknowledges that.

Given Ilanas excessive spending all season, her comeuppance was inevitable. Abbi isnt the only one to face one of New Yorks monsters when she gets mugged. Ilana and Jaime get bedbugs. The ruthless way Ilanas family and boyfriend treat her after finding out she has bedbugs is all too real. People in New York treat bedbugs like the actual plague. Lea Delaria has a fun cameo as the exterminator who finds the source of their bedbugs: all the cash Ilana was stuffing into her comforter. It all has to be burned. Ilanas financial irresponsibility has severe consequences, and she cant recoup the lost money because, as it turns out, Sushi Mambeaux was the source of the infestation and is closing down.

Now Abbis the one with a job (as security at Anthropologie, which wasnt really the glam vision she had in mind...expectations versus reality have been extremely divergent for Abbi as of late) and Ilanas the one whos unemployed. More so than in past seasons, this season of Broad City has been showing Abbi and Ilana genuinely struggle financially and experience how tough it can be to find steady employment in New York. Their lack of steady employment has significantly affected the seasonas it should. Bedbugs isnt necessarily cynical, but its a realistically dark episode that puts Abbi and Ilana through some shit. In the end, they still have each other (and the real hero of the episode: Massouma). Sometimes the only thing you can do after an exceptionally shitty day is just be with your best friend.

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