Idiot Boxing: Insecure, season 4 (2020)

Issa Rae continues to head up a great modern dramedy.

This season sees Issa continue her attempts to forge a place for herself and figure out exactly what she wants in life - something that plenty of people entering their 30s struggle with. In Issa's case, it takes three main forms. Professionally, she is trying to coordinate a large community event and benefit, including food and entertainment. It forces her to work far more autonomously than ever, which of course has its pros and cons. Swirling around this is her relationship with longtime best friend, Molly, which has grown rockier for a few reasons. In addition, Issa's previous longtime boyfriend Lawrence has returned on the scene, with a very solid job and a new girlfriend - a girlfriend with whom Issa begins working in order to better coordinate her large-scale community event.

Since its first season back in 2016, this has been a must-watch show for my wife and me, and this newest season did nothing to change that. The humor is as sharp and consistent as ever, and the drama is solid enough that even someone like me - who's not big on relationship drama - can get wrapped up in it. As you would hope in the fourth season of a show that started with its main character in their mid- to late twenties, it's less about horrible decisions and more about the struggles that come with their increasing maturity and reevaluation of their relationships with each other. The big rift in this season is between Issa and Molly, triggered by Issa's furtively having Molly's boyfriend Andrew give her a bit of help with her event. This isn't helped by the fact that Molly's relationship with Andrew hits

Molly plays an even more prominent role this season, even
having an entire episode all to herself. Along with the return
of Lawrence, Issa's shifting friendship with Molly is a key
component to this fourth season of the show. 

some choppy waves, or that Issa has to navigate a strange triangle between her ex and now extremely eligible bachelor Lawrence and Lawrence's girlfriend. Yes, it's drama, but I never felt like anything was overly forced or in the melodrama category.

The comedy elements of the show? Still completely on point. Yet again, this season highlights Issa Rae's comic skills, and yet again, there are a ton of great supporting characters who bring the fun. The writing hasn't lost its edge, even if the main characters' blunders are a bit more subtle, and their struggles more of an internal nature. And this is where Issa Rae's masterful control of her physical movements, facial expressions, and comic timing shine once again.

Even though I feel like this show will run its course in one or two more seasons, I'm still completely on board and fully looking forward to the next chapter.