Watching someone else’s quarter-life crisis is much more fun than dealing with your own. Delusional Downtown Divas, directed by Lena Dunham, hilariously takes care of all your 20-something Schadenfreude needs.
The web tv series, available on Index Magazine’s site, documents the lofty goals and lazy realities of best friends Oona, Swann, and AgNess (and their sometimes friends and roommates Jazzy and Molly.) Oona dreams of falling in love with New York art star Jake Pheasant, played nonchalantly by Nate Lowman. Swann, while not teasing her bleached blonde hair into a beehive of terror, choreographs private performance art to prepare for showing at Miami Basel. AgNess takes a brief stint as a Brooklyn artist’s assistant to buy bicycles so the fearsome threesome can stalk Pheasant. In the meantime, the trio runs into famed curator Clarissa Dalrymple, Art Production Fund’s Yvonne Force Villareal, and renowned sage Isaac Mizrahi, among others.
All 10 episodes celebrate the insular yet international art world and skewers it in all its ridiculousness at once, but ultimately DDD is about three young, creative women trying to make it into the New York scene. Through their clueless, traipsing adventures they stand by each other in times of mood lipstick, bad fruit jewelry, and droopy smiley face balloons, and by the end of the series, we’re left wishing to be a part of their own flamboyant, cutely sarcastic and naive scene based in AgNess’s father’s Tribeca loft.
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