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Insecure

July 2023

  • Issa Rae

    ‘I hate the colour pink’: Issa Rae on being a reluctant Barbie and the legacy of Insecure

    As a child, the creator and star of Insecure would play with Black dolls and imagine herself as an entrepreneur. The perfect grounding, both for her role in the new Barbie film, and her burgeoning status as a ‘bossy’ businesswoman

May 2022

  • Comedian Oliver Twist

    The funniest things on the internet
    Oliver Twist: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

    This comedian has gone through the entire internet to find the funniest videos, including a Bo Burnham song, Issa Rae’s web series and Rowan Atkinson interviewing Elton John

December 2021

  • Insecure<br>Insecure Season 5 Episode 6 Tired Okay?! A distracted Issa mulls over work and love as she stumbles through the consequences of her falling out with a colleague. Meanwhile, Molly – still struggling to cope with family matters – finds comfort in an unlikely source.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: it’s the Insecure finale – and no one expects a happy ending

    The last ever episode of Issa Rae’s Emmy-winning comedy. Plus: Worzel Gummidge gets twitchy. Here’s what to watch this evening
  • Top TV shows of 2021, 1: It's a Sin, Channel 4. Composite

    2021 in TV
    The 50 best TV shows of 2021

    The great telly countdown hits the top spot with a furiously joyful, gut-wrenching five-part drama that was funny and full of life
  • A scene from Tracy Oliver’s new series Harlem on Amazon.

    Harlem review – Girls Trip creator’s Amazon series is a mixed bag

    The 10-episode comedy from Tracy Oliver, which follows four thirtysomething black friends in New York, invites comparisons to Issa Rae’s superior Insecure

October 2021

  • Molly (Yvonne Orji) and Issa (Issa Dee) in Insecure.

    TV review
    Insecure season five review – farewell to the most fun, excruciating comedy on TV

  • Issa Rae - Insecure

    Goodbye Insecure: how the hit HBO comedy changed the game

October 2020

  • Black enough?
    Why horror keeps creeping into black drama - video

    Josh Toussaint-Strauss discusses why audiences expect bad things to happen to black characters and explores how a new generation of black creators are using horror to subvert the negative tropes

July 2020

  • Natasha Rothwell

    Remote controller
    Insecure's Natasha Rothwell: 'I was deeply obsessed with David Brent'

  • Arabella (Michaela Coel) and Terry (Weruche Opia) in I May Destroy You.

    Will it destroy us? Why horror always creeps in to black drama

June 2020

  • Insecure

    TV review
    Insecure season four review – is this the end of a great screen friendship?

    The show portrays beautifully how relationships don’t always blow up. Sometimes, as with Molly and Issa, people you love intensely and take for granted fade quietly away
  • Issa Rae

    Issa hit! The five best moments of Insecure

    As season four of Issa Rae’s award-winning comedy lands in the UK, here’s a rundown of its best bits – from cringe-inducing rap to a tricky situation-turned-comic
  • Yvonne Orji high kicking

    The look I love
    Yvonne Orji: 'The outfit made me feel like a superhero – like how Beyoncé has Sasha Fierce'

    The Insecure actress and comic on the importance of having elements of African style in her clothes, and the meaning of Molly’s power suits

September 2019

  • The best TV of the century composite.

    Best culture of the 21st century
    The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century

    Where’s Mad Men? How did The Sopranos do? Does The Crown triumph? Can anyone remember Lost? And will Downton Abbey even figure? Find out here – and have your say

April 2019

  • Issa Rae

    Issa Rae: ‘I’ve not started writing season four of Insecure yet. We needed a break’

    The writer-actor returns with body-swap movie Little. She talks millennial awkwardness and why she’s taking on Hollywood

January 2019

  • The Killing; The Wire; Breaking Bad; Game of Thrones; Dexter; Atlanta; Killing Eve; Night Night; Bodyguard

    Streamadelica: the 30 best box sets to watch before you die

    From seminal crime sagas and grim comedies to deep dramas and meta humour, here’s our writers’ guide to the best streamable shows right now

December 2018

  • Natasha Rothwell.

    Insecure’s Natasha Rothwell on playing 2018's funniest character: 'Kelli is cranked up to 11'

    The breakout star of Issa Rae’s comedy talks shocking sex scenes, dirty socks and why she left Saturday Night Live

August 2018

  • Issa Rae

    How Insecure made TV gold with ‘a show about regular black people being basic’

    As the third series is broadcast in the UK, Issa Rae, its creator, is breaking down cultural barriers

July 2018

  • Issa Rae and Yvonne Orji.

    'It was important for black women to see ourselves normally': how Insecure changed TV

    The HBO show refused to fetishise its black characters and instead illuminated their lived experiences. As its third season arrives, we explore its impact on culture

June 2018

  • (L-R) Paper Boi in Atlanta; French and Saunders; Issa Rae in Insecure; Nathan Barley; Titus in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

    TV’s best pop spoofs: from Paper Boi to Peeno Noir

    The trap track created for Atlanta follows in a long line of original songs created for shows, from The Office to Insecure and beyond
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