Insecure
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Each ofInsecuresfamiliar tableaus are on display in Familiar-Like, the second episode of the season.
Her ongoing apartment search is, similarly, fruitless.
Later, when her boss presents a tone-deaf reimagining of the company logo, the employees verbalize their critiques.
Issa daydreams, bitterly musing on the companys late arrival to wokeness.
(The daydream has supplanted the mirror rap/monologue as a means of communicating the rumblings of Issas subconscious.)
She isnt the staunch careerist Olivia Pope, wielding professional exceptionalism as a virtue.
The show deftly side-steps the most noxious, tired stereotypes of black womanhood.
But isInsecurescommitment to countering boilerplate renderings proof of a preoccupation with the very archetypes it intends to flout?
She responds: Really?
I have to speak up about every issue?
Do you know how awkward that is?
Hi, Im Issa and Im black and angry.
Issas inability to conceive of a middle ground between mute passivity and theatrical anger has been demonstrated before.
What are her motivations for remaining with the nonprofit?
Hopefully her motives are excoriated this season.
But often it feels like she isnt treated as a viable sexual presence.
After speaking with Kelli, Issa calls her brother to ask if she can crash with him.
A huge frustration withInsecureis the show creators mindfulness of social media.
When there werecriticisms of the shows lack of condoms, season two was careful to include them.
Daniel has essentially replaced Lawrence this season, as Issas domestic partner and unnecessary male presence on the show.
This should be a show primarily about the four girls and their friendship.
Daniel is, as Lawrence was previously, flailing professionally.
Hes at a standstill as a producer, though.
Prodded by Kelli, Issa asks to stay with Daniel for a couple more weeks.
She cleans the apartment in an attempt to woo him and barter more time.
They wind up at the club together.
Again, Daniel mentions the orchestral superiority of his beats, and the young rap star is hilariously unimpressed.
Brown, misreading the ruckus of the crowd, assumes a spontaneous dance battle has erupted.
Gunfire erupts, Issa and Daniel seek cover, and, eventually head home.
Back at home, Daniel offers Issa his bed, a proposition which we know will end messily.
She reveals that she isnt sleepy.
Issa stays up while Daniel works on his beats, smiling and bobbing her head along to the tracks.
