Broad City Has Earned Its Origin Episode

[Editor’s note: The following contains some spoilers for Season 4 Episode 1 of Broad City]
Origin episodes are tough. They’re not only tasked with subverting cliches, but they fight for importance, fight to matter: you can only air an origin episode if the audience is invested enough in its characters to care. A devoted fan base, however, has never been a problem for Broad City; the show has inspired self-identification in many of its devout viewers.The first episode of Broad City&rs