While HBO’s “Girls” has always claimed to be a look at the real lives of 20-something females, I’ve often argued that Comedy Central’s “Broad City” can actually lay claim to this distinction over Lena Dunham’s series.
Case in point: In BC’s second episode of season 2 titled “Mochalatta Chills,” the show addresses one of its most hilariously real devices—that Bevers is not Abbi’s roommate, but just the boyfriend of the roommate viewers never see. How many women (and men!) have had roommates whose significant others NEVER LEAVE, preventing them from having the luxury of running around naked in their apartment to the tune of Lady Gaga’s “Edge of Glory”?
In fact, Bevers has been so prone to laying around Abbi and Melody’s apartment that he has developed a huge bed sore on his back (or a “couch sore,” as he calls it, since he doesn’t leave that particular spot). But Bevers’ lack of productivity has enhanced his creativity; he moved a mini-fridge into the living room so he doesn’t have to trek to the master fridge nearly 2 feet away (he still has to work out the kinks when it comes to using a grabber to nab his Cinnabon iced coffee). Kevin Spacey’s Seven killer has a new victim to target when it comes to Sloth.
Meanwhile, Ilana is still (not) working at Deals Deals Deals, which I imagine has a theme song to Destiny’s Child’s “Bills, Bills, Bills.” But her weakling of a boss Todd has no idea how to deal with her, as his therapist has encouraged him to write down his feelings toward her lack of ambition. After this admission, Ilana promises to try to work for him—challenge accepted. She hires interns to outsource her responsibilities in a series of interviews (“My biggest weakness is that I lose my purse a lot, but my biggest strength is that I always get it back”).
Back at work at the Soulstice gym, Abbi is feeling like she’s on the same happiness cycle as co-worker Trey, who really needs to think positively after sinking $14,000 into Zach Braff’s Kickstarter and not even getting his name spelled correctly in the movie credits (and no set visit). But just when Abbi is feeling like she’s on the edge of glory, cha-chinga. Trey has found his latest muse: Bevers. He’s documenting B Man’s transformation for bodybytrey.biz. Abbi agrees to help him train the Beast that sits on her couch, since he’s the perfect “before” picture that’s going to be Trey’s Garden State.
Ilana ends up hiring multiple interns and sitting at Todd’s desk. Where’s Todd? He’s at the police station, identifying his attacker from a line-up of prepubescent females who think he looks like Albert Nobbs. Soon, Ilana goes from disinterested stoner to Michael Douglas in Wall Street, giving speeches with lines like, “Money, money, money. . .bitch.”
Despite there being a number of other gyms to work out at, Bevers claims to have chosen Soulstice because his friend Abby works there and soon convinces her that this is a good thing because instead of cleaning, she’s training. Of course, he says this before farting during a stretch and blaming it on her (“That’s a woman’s fart” – Trey).
“When you’re home with him,” says Trey of Bevers. “I want you to monitor his diet, his sleep, even his stool.” Although he’s also worried about Abbi, since her women farts don’t smell healthy.
Abbi and Ilana convene for lunch, where the newfound Deals Deals Deals boss dons a white suit she got from $119 down to $69 down to $39 at T.J. Maxx. Feeling inspired from her Maxxinista power, Ilana tells Abbi to rub some Purell on her mustache and train the s*** out of Bevers, grabbing the bull by the balls. But after Abbi admonishes Ilana for calling her attire a “white power suit,” it suddenly dawns on Ilana that she’s become a monster, with her unpaid interns and African American females singing “Sweet Low, Sweet Chariot” under their desks. When she gets back to work, she issues her interns IOUs and reparations (“I mean, you, Aisha!”) which may or may not have been issued because she made out with a few of these hires.
“Be your Soulstice self, Matthew,” Abbi says to Bevers with forced encouragement, before he takes a tumble off the treadmill and ends up in a neckbrace on a stretcher. Looks like more couch sores are in Bevers’ future.
Todd returns to the Deals Deals Deals office to see Ilana following the rules, even closing a few “deals.” With this repaired relationship, Todd decides to ask her an important question: “Who is Albert Nobbs?”
“Glenn Close pretending to be a woman pretending to be a man.”
“Yeah, that’s accurate.”
What did you think of “Mochalatta Chills”?