The Small, Radical Choice That <em>Broad City</em> Has Always Made
This post contains light spoilers through Broad City Season 5.
In the finale of , the web series turned Comedy Central show celebrating the hijinks of two Millennial New Yorkers, Abbi and Ilana do the thing they’ve never managed to do together, over all the time they’ve lived in the city: They walk over the Brooklyn Bridge. An expensive toilet is involved (they found it abandoned on a street in Lower Manhattan and then chained it to a skateboard and have been rolling the whole Frankensteinian contraption with them as they walk, and … like many things in , it’s a long story). The path Abbi and Ilana take over the bridge, though, ends up exploring not their show’s brand of (occasionally literal) toilet humor, but rather the bigger thing around which has revolved: the relationship between the two best friends; the way it might be changing now that Abbi, newly accepted to an artists’ residency in
