Ilana’s curls, the bandage dress, and more of the moments that made eight Jewish women writers say “damn … same”
Photo: Matthew Peyton/Comedy Central For years, depictions of contemporary Judaism onscreen tended to be the purview of a certain brand of nebbishy, neurotic Jewish man, from Woody Allen to Mel Brooks to Jerry Seinfeld. While I saw shades of their characters’ experiences in my own, I never felt truly felt represented onscreen until the first season of Broad City, back in 2014.
Ilana is thrilled to have a real Holocaust survivor relative upon which to bounce her theories. As she puts it to her new cousin Saul: “I’m writing my personal essay on inherited trauma. For example, I experience anxiety diarrhea three to eight times daily … now do you think that somatic expression tracks back to your horrific experience somehow, for sure?” To which a bemused Saul responds, simply: “No.
When Abbi buys her too-expensive Hervé Leger bandage dress and plans to return it, but never does, I remembered when, a few months after moving to New York when I was 22, I attended my first sample sale in one of those warehouse-esque spaces. By chance, I bumped into one of my sister’s friends, a tall, hourglass-shaped Jewish woman I deeply admired.
At some point I realized that, despite the constant mass exodus of 60-something Jews from the Northeast to every inch of “America’s limp dick,” Florida is only pretty on its shiny exterior. Don’t be fooled by the Star-of-David-clad grandmas who dot the streets or the PERFECT weather. In reality, there are guns everywhere you turn — you can literally buy them at K-mart — and on any given street, you’d be lucky to see less than four MAGA signs.
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