Isae Rae's most valuable talent as a writer seems to be her ability to coerce conversation-to fool us through humor and wit into projecting our personal lives onto fictional characters.
There's arguably never been an episode of Insecure that so distinctly homed in on the gap between the characters' expectations of what should happen and what actually does. But it works-and, to be frank, it was time.
At its worse, 'Hella Blows' is regressive in its sexual politics in a way that left me angry. I was also left wondering: What slice of black life do Issa and Molly really represent?
Rather than help reinforce the realism of the characters' sex lives, the episode's sexual candidness only serves to highlight Issa and Molly's clumsy decision-making.
