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Season 5/Episode 1, HBO Lookin’ Like Picasso Abstract conversations on a road trip with Kelly, Tiffany, and Derrick kick off this season of Insecure in the best way possible. You know it’s about to go down when Kelly’s scrolling and trolling in the back seat. While these three plan to make the weekend all about them, Issa is stepping off the airways like a boss. Boss or not, Issa gonna Issa and jumps into the first car she sees thinking it’s her ride to Stanford. Child, you know better than to sit down in a car without asking somebody who they’re waiting for! You a whole Lift driver! The Insecure crew back on their old Stanford stomping grounds is what alum dreams are made of, well… until Kelly finds out she’s actually there posthumously. Issa not only got “flewed out” for the alumni business panel, but she was also asked to give words honoring Kelly. Kelly kept her composure for real because I could not have seen my face in a commemorative book under some “In Memoriam” with a weak-ass quote from my homegirl, and I’m standing there all living and breathing and Black. Hey! Yes, Issa, it’s that obvious. Your fake “hey” when you see someone you don’t remember and the fact that you and Molly ain’t vibing like you used to. It’s not bad, it just ain’t y’all, and Molly knows it. Kelly’s advice is so Kelly it’s almost incomprehensible, but it also makes sense. Friendship mending takes time. Speaking of time, it’s looking like the weekend is all the time Tiffany needs to rep her shiel…
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