BY ANNA MENTA
YAAAS, KWEENS! Creators and stars Jacobson, left, and Glazer.
ART STREIBER/COMEDY CENTRAL
“TUNE IN TO COMEDY CENTRAL AND GET READY FOR A CRY FEST,” says Lucia Aniello, her own voice quavering with emotion, of the series finale of Broad City, the show she helped shape as a writer, executive producer and director for five seasons. The hilarious, often gross and frankly weird saga of Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer debuted in 2014, with the two stars and co-creators playing heightened versions of themselves. The more timid Abbi works as a cleaner at a gym called Soulstice; Ilana, the wild one, spends her days sleeping in the bathroom at her sales job at the online company Deals Deals Deals. The poor, New York City-living, Hillary Clinton-worshipping feminist BFFs drift from one small adventure to the next, often making mistakes (like Ilana’s occasional appropriation of black culture), rarely getting what they want but always finding comfort in their friendship.