Insecure Season 4: The Hidden Genius of Looking for Latoya

Season 4 / Looking for Latoya: The Reunion / HBO Every season of Insecure is filled with Easter eggs and hidden gems, From Drake and Frank Ocean, to the show within the show. The show within Insecure, is by far my favorite. This season, however, took the cake. If you’re new to Insecure… stop here and go catch up with the rest of us. If you’re an old head, you already know what I’m talking about. In season 1 of Insecure, Issa gave us Conjugal Visits. Conjugal Visits was a spoof on late night prison shows. We only saw snippets of this in Issa and Lawrence’s apartment, but it made me observant and eager to see what she would be watching the next season. Season 2 went hard in the pre-Civil War soap opera drama with Due North. It was a writer room joke turned jewel from writers Natasha Rothwell (Kelli) and Ben Cory. The very next season, we got the Blackest 90’s sitcom mashup up Kev’yn. This season undoubtedly took comedies, like Martin and Family Matters, to create something that pointed out not only what many of us loved about sitting around a TV in the 90s, but it also made quite evident all of the messages within the jokes and how the characters themselves evolved into jokes and caricatures of Black life.

Now, the Insecure writers decide to really stunt on us. The fourth season of Insecure gave us true-crime realness with Looking for Latoya. From cheddar-bae all the way to the reunion, I was glued. Don’t get me wrong, every other piece of drama and laughter that filled this …