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- 2016
- TV-MA
- HBO
- 2016
- TV-MA
- HBO
Summary The comedy follows the lives of best friends Issa Dee (Issa Rae) and Molly (Yvonne Orji).
Created By: Issa Rae, Larry Wilmore
- 2016
- TV-MA
- HBO
- 2016
- TV-MA
- HBO
Insecure
5 Seasons
Season 1 Premiere: Oct 9, 2016
6.9
Where to Watch
Summary The comedy follows the lives of best friends Issa Dee (Issa Rae) and Molly (Yvonne Orji).
Created By: Issa Rae, Larry Wilmore
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 69 Critic Reviews
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97% Positive
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3% Mixed
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 69 Critic Reviews
84
97% Positive
67 Reviews
67 Reviews
3% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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In Season 5, “Insecure” leans into its legacy for awkward small talk in place of punch lines and tensions that roil between the lines of every text message. Its charismatic characters progress, inch by inch, in pursuit of grand romantic love and career clout while taking for granted what’s already aspirational about their lives: to be entrenched with people who you know so well. And to be doing it all in Lotusland.
A fresh, sharp-edged comedy that swerves past nearly every cliché.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 255 User Ratings
6.9
74% Positive
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21% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 255 User Ratings
6.9
74% Positive
189 Ratings
189 Ratings
5% Mixed
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
21% Negative
54 Ratings
54 Ratings
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In other words: they’re actual, believable people. It’s easy to root for them even as it hurts to watch them stumble--a combination that makes Insecure an immediate force to be reckoned with.
Insecure is less inherently dramatic than some of the other Comedies In Theory, which makes the infrequency of laugh-out-loud moments a bigger issue than on, say, Casual, but Rae is a really engaging writer and performer, and the series is charming and compulsively watchable.
Insecure is alive and engaged in the time after Tinder was new and fun, when you realize that bad luck in love and dreaded dry spells are often caused from within and politics are unbearably personal. It also happens to be a show that most fans of Living Single or Laverne & Shirley would probably love.
Insecure is brazenly confident in its comic, profane authenticity. [3-9 Oct 2016, p.23]
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.
Production Company:
- 3 Arts Entertainment
- Hoorae
Initial Release Date: Oct 9, 2016
Number of seasons: 5 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 3 Nominations
Black Reel Awards for Television
• 11 Wins & 46 Nominations
Image Awards (NAACP)
• 7 Wins & 37 Nominations
