Insecure season two is more self-assured than ever.

Without ever being too on-the-nose, Insecure has something to tell its audience about the lived experience of seeking life and career successes while black.

The risk in this kind of show is that viewers will complain that “nothing happens,” but that never feels like the case here because Rae and her co-stars shape every scene into a perfectly formed bit of social interaction, built around a core of conflict, but with fascinating bits of business happening in the margins.

Season 2 finds Rae and company just as wonderfully messy and entertaining as they were when we first met them back in 2016.

Insecure is alive and engaged in the time after Tinder was new and fun, when you realize that bad luck in love and dreaded dry spells are often caused from within and politics are unbearably personal. It also happens to be a show that most fans of Living Single or Laverne & Shirley would probably love.