Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer come out of the Upright Citizens’ Brigade improvisational comedy group, and their Comedy Central series “Broad City” — which wraps for the season on Wednesday night — comes out of a web series they began posting in 2009. So the TV show has a sweet lived-in quality. Jacobson and Glazer are in sync, beat for beat, as they stumble through their weird sidewalk adventures. At times, their comfort level together reminds me of Bret and Jemaine on “Flight of the Conchords,” or J.D. and Turk on “Scrubs.” Their intimacy is completely unforced, and it’s very particular and warped. They seem to have their own “Nell” language. I like “Girls,” but the chemistry between the leads in “Broad City” is far more organic.
Apparently no TV show is immune (cue tears).
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