The Broad City Series Finale Unleashed All the Feels

Being a girl in her twenties watching Broad City, it finally seemed as if my New York was being represented onscreen. Featuring two best friends trying to make it in this trash bag city, Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer’s brainchild was seen as a perfect show to many fans.

Maybe it was because all we really had before it was Sex and the City and Girls, two shows that gave a false sense of the New York experience, but once Abbi and Ilana went through the subway cars in the middle of the summer, trying to not die? It was the New York we knew and loved well.

From the episode where Abbi and Ilana go down to St. Mark’s and meet a tree man to their constant growth as friends, it’s a show that displayed the reality of female friendship in the best possible way. So, watching as the series came to an end was bittersweet. We’ll always have these characters, always remember the hilarity that surrounded Abbi and Ilana, but it still isn’t a show we wanted to leave.

To help honor it, the creatives behind it shared what working on Broad City meant to them.

And, to share how much the show meant to us all, fans shared gifs, comments, and stories about watching Broad City with their own friends.

It ‘s just one of those rare shows with two female leads who are unapologetic about themselves. They’d have conversations about their bodies that were never portrayed on television before, and they both weren’t afraid to “get ugly” for the benefit of their audiences. Broad City was a gem of a show, and it is going to be missed!

(image: Comedy Central)

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