First Reaction to ‘Insecure’
Day 62
Issa Rae’s HBO show Insecure has been highly praised. Because of our lack of HBO, I missed out on the cultural phenomenon. Luckily, for being good customers of FIOS, we got three free months of HBO. Insecure was the first thing we sought to watch.
Here are a few of my thoughts after watching the series tonight.
The music was terrible
This is a strange thing to point out first, but the music was pretty bad. Sounded like a bunch of teenagers from LA trying to make it bad. Mixtape from your next door neighbor bad. They must have just not had the budget for real music except for the beginning with Kendrick’s “Alright.” The only other recognizable song was “Wipe Me Down” which couldn’t have cost more than 50 bucks and a $20 iTunes gift card to use. Does anyone even know who sings that song?
Issa was imperfect
Which is a good thing. It’s awesome that the show allowed her to be imperfect. She was selfish, funny, insufferable, smart, ungrateful and all of that is okay. Many times she was more selfish than Lawrence. Often times the woman is portrayed as the one investing more emotionally. This was a more honest take that let Issa and Lawrence be human. No one and everyone was right and wrong.
Lawyers were (finally) portrayed realistically
I liked the fact that the writers didn’t make Molly some high-powered attorney, but a junior associate. It was realistic given her age. This is something I wouldn’t care about if I wasn’t in the legal field, but because I am, I appreciated the attention to detail. They even had a redlined document on her computer. I know most people have no idea what that it, but trust me, it was realistic.
It was nice to see a black show not centered around blackness but was in fact centered around blackness
Blackness was very much apart of the story line, but it operated in the background. It was a given that these were black stories, so the story could focus on other things. I like the fact that we have more stories like this being told. So much so that having an all black cast doesn’t mean the story has to have an all black message. It was relatable and black and no big deal.
