THE MOST ESSENTIAL things to know about Issa and Molly’s friendship: (1) it is THE most important, enduring, dysfunctional, and honest love story of the series; (2) if you are expecting the stereotypical sassy black girl sidekicks, you will be waiting forever; (3) the beauty of Molly and Issa is the mundane, everyday, real-life twentysomething life they live—it is life, not TV life, not empirically every single black girl’s life, just their life.
Malibu: remember that time we completely lost our shit with each other and then actually almost lost each other—MALIBU. I have you, I will call you out, but I have you. Now pass the chips, give me the remote, and get rid of that skanky orange romper.