Ah. The age of the Internet brings wonderful opportunities, and this is nothing but true for Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, who just went from women with a stellar web series to women with—dare I say—a hit television show on Comedy Central.

“Broad City” stars Jacobson and Glazer as best friends also named Abbi and Ilana as they navigate their way through everyday life in New York City.

Upon quick synopsis, the show sounds a bit like HBO’s “Girls,” but in my opinion, it’s much better. Jacobson and Glazer, both Upright Citizen’s Brigade alumnae, have teamed up with executive producer Amy Poehler (maybe you’ve heard of her) to create a show based on the lives of poor, struggling young women, ultimately telling a goodhearted tale of friendship. And even more than that, “Broad City” is just downright hilarious.

The show, which airs Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m., wasted no time getting its audience acquainted with its protagonists and their situations in the premiere. The episode opens with a Skype chat between the two friends in which Ilana is determined to go to a pop-up Lil Wayne concert that night. The only problem? Neither of them can afford it. The episode tracks the girls’ day as they attempt to get the $200 they’ll need for the concert, drinks, marijuana, etc. After Ilana doesn’t get her paycheck, she proceeds to steal office supplies from her work, coaxes Abbi into playing hooky from her job as a cleaner at a spinning club—by pretending she has to go get her AIDS test results back—and sells the supplies back to an office supplies store. When they only get the money back on a gift card, they resort to street performing, and when that fails, they strip down to their underwear to clean the apartment of a man (played by Fred Armisen) who’s convinced he is a baby and refuses to pay them. The episode ends with a Skype call of Ilana puking into the toilet. Ah, the circle of a 20-something’s life.

The promise of the show comes first and foremost from its main characters. Abbi and Ilana are opposites; Abbi, the more Type A friend, schedules time to masturbate while Ilana, who’s much more reckless, conducts the opening scene’s Skype call while having sex. They’re also reflections of each other, though: both work jobs they hate and rely on their friendship to get them through the day. While they’re both flawed, you can’t help but feel invested in their struggle because they feel like more outrageous versions of the friends you might have.

They also don’t shy away from showing the not-so-pleasant things about living in New York City as a woman in your 20s. They don’t have high-paying jobs, they don’t have perfect relationships and they still live with less-than-perfect roommates. They have goals and aspirations—Abbi would like to be promoted to “trainer,” not just a “cleaner”—but this show, just like the web series, isn’t about having it all. Instead, “Broad City” focuses on the unfortunate (but sometimes funny) day-to-day reality in which we live.

Toward the end of the episode, a drunken Abbi says just what we are thinking about these two fantastic ladies, and maybe even ourselves, after watching “Broad City”: “I believe in us.”