Insecure : Season 1
- Network: HBO
- Series Premiere Date: Oct 9, 2016
Insecure
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 9 Ratings
- Summary: The comedy follows the lives of best friends Issa Dee (Issa Rae) and Molly (Yvonne Orji) in Los Angeles.
- Genre(s): Comedy
- Season 1 premiere date: Oct 9, 2016
- Episode Length: 30
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Positive: 30 out of 31
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Mixed: 1 out of 31
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Fearless, relatable, goofy and charmingly awkward, she’s just a joy to watch. She has a strong voice, too.
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Insecure is simple, funny and authentic.
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A show that cannot help but carry with it the burden of being a standard-bearer for diverse voices on television, even as it attempts to be, you know, funny. Insecure proves to be ably up to the challenge. The show marries specific issues with universal questions to create situations that are both precise and affecting. ... Issa herself is a profane, brilliant lead character.
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Its stories of buppie frustration and romance, set in Los Angeles, aren’t revolutionary, but they’re funny and moving, powered by Ms. Rae’s ear for dialogue of a kind of crystalline, pitch-perfect profanity.
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Issa the character may be a work in progress, but the woman writing and playing her knows exactly what she's doing.
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At first, the relative inexperience of the cast shows, but they settle in over subsequent episodes, and the writing starts strong and gets better. Insecure is a remarkably observant show about “big issues” like race, class and education, but they’re woven into the fabric of a character study.
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Seems less a sitcom than a character study inflected by melancholy humor and hip-hop idioms. It sometimes tries a bit too hard to flash its street credentials (the episodes all have titles like "Messy as Fuck" and "Thirsty as Fuck"), but that's more than compensated for by its obdurate refusal to bill itself as the master narrative of black women. It's content to be the piquant story of two confused friends trying to navigate the uncertainties of the young-adult world.
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Oct 9, 2016
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