Issa Rae’s “Insecure” Is The New Awkward

Have you ever had that one show that felt like you were just watching yourself on television? I used to watch my mamma watch her favorite shows just to see her react. She’d see someone she identified with going through the same thing she was going through and exclaim, “why she gotta be reading my mail like that?” At about ten or twelve years old, I had no idea what the hell my mamma was talking about. Then I turned thirty and like most thirty-somethings in the new millennium, I snuggled up in the corner of my bed with my laptop in search of a show that would take the pain of adulting away. What I found was Issa Rae and The Mis-Adventures of Awkward Black Girl web series. What happened was I turned into my mamma, yelling at the screen and telling this woman to stop reading my mail. Well, guess what? It looks like Issa Rae and her new HBO series Insecure is about to have me doing the same thing all over again…. and I can’t wait!

Insecure is a new comedy series created by Issa Rae and Larry Whilmore that launches it’s 8 episode series exclusively on HBO on Sunday October 9 (10:30–11:00 p.m. ET/PT). Whether or not you were about that ABG life, this looks like a show that may have you re-upping on your HBO subscription. Similarly to Awkward Black Girl, Rae stars as the main character Issa. Issa and her bestie Molly (played by actress Yvonne Orji) show us the amazing and crazy experiences of being a Black woman today. Issa is the friend who seems to just fumble through life, whi…