Abbi Jacobson's 'Fucked Up' TV Princess Is the Only Thing Healing My Heart's Broad City-Shaped Hole
EntertainmentAs a child, my favorite fantasy books were not Harry Potter but a series called Dealing with Dragons, which followed the adventures of a feisty unconventional princess and the dragon she implored to hold her hostage. Princesses pissed me off because they were beautiful and boring. Dealing with Dragons’s heroine was beautiful but slightly less boring, and she was mean to all the princes. I liked her very much. So it is with great pleasure that I anticipate Disenchantment, Simpsons creator Matt Groening’s forthcoming series about a “flawed” princess (played by Abbi Jacobson) who gets “fucked up,” just like me!
Netflix set a premiere date for Disenchantment back in May, but according to Deadline, Jacobson dug into her role as medieval anti-heroine Bean at the Television Critics Association press tour on Sunday. “Bean is a different princess,” Jacobson said. “She’s flawed and gets fucked up. I find it so relatable.”