“Broad City”
Synopsis: The comedic misadventures of two women going about their daily lives in New York, who make the smallest and mundane events simultaneously hysterical and disturbing to watch.
What You Need To Know: Lucia Aniello is leaving the disappointment of “Rough Night” in the dust and charging forward with yet another hilariously insane/insanely hilarious season of Comedy Central’s “Broad City.” In this Post-Trump nightmare break from reality, we should take inspiration from Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer; if they can get up out of bed and continue to go about their lives getting high, hanging out with gun-toting grannies and blowing smoke in the faces of abortion protesters, then By God so can we. It’s a killer stroke of genius to treat T***p’s name as a swearword; hopefully one day it will become the worst thing you could call someone.
Release Date: Originally scheduled for late August, now it arrives September 13 on Comedy Central
“Better Things”
Synopsis: An actress raises her three daughters while juggling the pressures of working in Hollywood and being a single parent.
What You Need To Know: FX’s “Better Things” was one of the 2016’s best series and Pamela Adlon’s (“Louie”) surprise (but shouldn’t have been) Emmy nomination was rightfully deserved. The second season dives right back into working actress Sam’s (Adlon) messy and complicated relationships with her daughters (Mikey Madison, Hannah Alligood, Olivia Edward) and mother (Celia Imrie), all the while attempting to keep the spinning plates of her personal and professional lives in the air. A woman’s work is truly never done.
Release Date: September 14th on FX
“Vice Principals”
Synopsis: An overprotective father and his scheming and sociopathic co-vice principal colleague are forced to work together after both are passed over for the position of principal.
What You Need To Know: In an age when television series are stretched out for as long as possible (and in the process dip in quality, cough “House of Cards,” “Orange is the New Black,” cough), there is something to be admired when all parties involved realize a series should only have so many seasons and proceed to wrap things up as quickly and succinctly as possible. Such is the case with HBO’s “Vice Principals,” building to its final season where Neal Gamby (Danny McBride) and Lee Russell (Walter Goggins) once again team up to uncover who shot Neal. While the series never really popped, McBride and Goggins, and a hilarious supporting cast of Georgia King (“The New Normal”), Busy Phillips (“Cougar Town”), Shea Whigham (“Boardwalk Empire”) and Kimberly Hebert Gregory (“Kevin (Probably) Saves The World”), brought their comedic A-Game. Sometimes short and sweet (or rather sour) is the way to go.
Release Date: September 17th on HBO
