Babes trailer brings Ilana Glazer’s bestie energy to the pregnancy plot

If you’ve been missing Broad City, the Babes trailer will be a breath of fresh air. Ilana Glazer once again plays the raunchy, freewheeling, pop culture referencing BFF everyone wishes they had, this time opposite Michelle Buteau. But the twist is these aren’t young and irresponsible New Yorkers, they’re new moms (who are also New Yorkers). Babes, which premieres May 17, is directed by Better Things’ Pamela Adlon and explores “the bonds of friendship and the messy, unpredictable challenges of adulthood and becoming a parent.”

Per a synopsis from NEON, “Babes follows inseparable childhood best friends Eden (Ilana Glazer) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau), having grown up together in NYC, now firmly in different phases of adulthood. When carefree and single Eden decides to have a baby on her own after a one-night stand, their friendship faces its greatest challenge. BABES delves into the complexities of female friendship with a blend of laughter, tears, and labor pains.”

The Babes trailer brings that Broad City energy to a new, easy, lived-in chemistry between Glazer and Buteau. (At two separate points, they volley the same word back and forth in a way you could easily imagine in an Abbi and Ilana exchange: “Bitch.” “Biiiiitch.”) But it’s also a refreshingly frank and funny perspective on pregnancy. Eden is at turns shocked, horrified, and delighted by the realities of her situation, discovering you can get pregnant on your period, that pregnancy makes you really horny, and that sometimes, you might get stuck with a terrifyingly large needle.

Glazer, who previously penned the pregnancy horror False Positive, co-wrote Babes with Josh Rabinowitz. The comedy is “about the absurdity of deciding to have kids, having kids,” the actor said at SXSW, where the movie premiered. “But what really anchored the story and the writing of it was how your friendships change in that time of your life. And not just—you know, we’ve been talking all day about, as new parents and as young parents how your friendships change,” Glazer shared. “But also if you don’t have kids, you choose not to have kids, watching your friends become parents, and you’re like, ‘This is gonna change our relationship.’ It’s that tug, and it’s painful. I have it with my friends and I can feel their side—I have a child and a partner. But you feel both sides of it, that push and pull, and it’s almost like this adult puberty.”