On paper, the meeting of Pamela Adlon, co-creator, co-writer, main director and actress of the series Better Thingsby Ilana Glazer, co-creator, co-writer and actress of the series Broad CityAnd by Michelle Buteau, creator, co-writer and star of the series Survival of the Thickest, makes you dream. In reality, it is disillusioning. In fact, these three funny ladies of TV should have combined their talents to create a new series rather than producing a feature film.
Childhood friends growing up in New York, Eden (Ilana Glazer), a single yoga teacher, and Dawn (Michelle Buteau), a married dentist and mother, no longer see each other as much as they would like. Returning from the delivery of Dawn and her husband Marty’s (Hassan Minajh) second child, Eden meets Claude (Stephan James) on the subway. A crazy night of unprotected sex and a few nauseas later, she learns that she is pregnant and that the handsome stranger is no longer in this world. Eden decides to continue her pregnancy in the hope of being able to count on Dawn.
Written by Ilana Glazer and Josh Rabinovitz, producer of Broad City, Babes will certainly not contribute to a possible baby boom. On the one hand, nulliparous women may not reconsider their decision not to have children; on the other hand, those who are thinking about having one might change their mind. From water breaking to breastfeeding, including the size of the amniocentesis needle, the surge of hormones and embarrassing moments during childbirth, the two screenwriters juggle all the subjects related to motherhood to make a story as charged as it is irreverent, but more boring than hilarious.
Between two hairstyle changes of the Dr Morris (John Carroll Lynch), a gynecologist tirelessly battling baldness, the screenwriters explore female friendship from different angles while their protagonists move away from each other. At times, it feels like we’re watching a new franchise of Sex and the City without the shoe budget.
Noisy, shrill and hysterical, Pamela Adlon’s production, closer to the agitated sitcom than to the explosive cinema comedy, exhausts as much as an infant who has not yet slept through the night or a toddler who regresses after arrival of a newborn. Fortunately, at the heart of all this chaos are the irresistible Ilana Glazer and Michelle Buteau, whose strong complicity remains the real driving force behind Babes.
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Comedy
Babes
Pamela Adlon
Ilana Glazer, Michelle Buteau, John Carroll Lynch
1:44 a.m.
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