2 Broke Girls - Review

2 Broke Girls

Plot summary:

Max Black works as a babysitter for a socialite diva by day and as a waitress at a diner by night. Caroline Channing is a wealthy girl turned bankrupt due to her father’s Ponzi scheme that went awry. When these two meet after Caroline gets the job to be a waitress in the same diner that Max works at, Caroline realizes that Max’s talent for baking cupcakes could yield a good potential for a business. And as the friendship between them grows, they begin to save money on a daily basis in order to have the start-up money to one day open a bakeshop.

Review:

There are some interesting characters involved in this series. The main two characters – Max Black, played by Kat Dennings and Caroline Channing, played by Beth Berhs – especially are interesting and funny with their own particular character traits. Max is shown to be sarcastic, witty, and prone to masking her emotions – not the type who’s used to or comfortable with expressing them. She also can be pessimistic, insensitive or bitter, and has a fear of success. Coming to Caroline, she’s quite the opposite. Always looking for the bright side and being enthusiastic about the future and more pleasant to people than Max. Plus she’s spoiled, considering the fact that she has had a pretty easy life. The series really does a good job in bringing these two very different characters together and creating an interesting comedic story. Considering some other recurring characters, there’s Han Lee(Matthew Moy); the diner’s owner, Oleg(Jonathan Kite); the cook, Earl(Garrett Morris), the cashier, and Sophie Kachinsky(Jenifer Coolidge); Max’s and Caroline’s neighbour, who are all weird and funny in their own way.

The acting is no doubt brilliant. Kat Dennings and Beth Berhs, both, do a great a job in bringing to life these two characters. The struggles the two have to go through, the stupid adventures, the arguments, are all interesting and hilarious to watch. And they get even more interesting and funny as the series progresses. We get to see Max and Caroline having to deal with their own issues and each other’s issues while having to face their common problem: money. The dialogues are really good, and are pretty successful in bringing out some good laughs. And the humour can be pretty saucy at times – well, at a lot of times. This is definitely a comedy series to watch.