2 Broke Girls: Sitcom with immense potential falls prey to creepy unfunny regressive jokes

2 waitresses coming from the different backgrounds set upon a goal to create a business of their own and their journey to the goal form the crux of the series. I started watching this series(despite a poor IMDB rating) especially for Kat Dennings. She was amazing as Max Black with quirky humor and optimistic about everything. Starring as Caroline Channing, Beth Behrs grew upon as the series proceeded.

The major positive about the series was the relationship between the lead characters and their on-screen chemistry. Fortunately, the lead pair remain friends throughout the series and don’t turn into lesbians which could have been the case had Netflix interfered. The 3 boyfriends who come across different seasons did play a nice part and were one of the other positives.

The show has immense amount of regressive sexual jokes and racial stereotyping of Asian men. The racial remarks though looked harmless at the start, it got tiring as the series proceeded. Similarly, the sexual double entendres that pop every other minute were heavily off-putting after the first season, and more than being unfunny it got irritating as the show progressed. Except between the 2 lead characters, there’s hardly any emotions that worked which yet again dented the series.

With the plot it has, it could have been a great sitcom yet has been let down by crass jokes and mediocre writing whose only saving grace is the lead pair. It took me 34 days to complete the series(slowest among all the sitcoms ever watched).

~Below Average!

Spanning across 138 episodes for 6 seasons, the series is available in Amazon prime.