#The HBO Comedy Series Is Coming To An End

The teaser touts season 5 as “one last time for a little reflection.” The montage takes us through Issa’s lifelong ritual of looking to the mirror for confidence and inspiration. And as Issa unpacks her worries about the future, we start to see the cracks in her composure.

As always, Rae makes sure there’s great music playing in the background of her show. And there’s no need to shazam the title on this one — it’s Yung Baby Tate’s “I Am,” a song you might’ve heard circulating TikTok over the past few months. The teaser highlights the song’s outro, letting the lyrics speak for themselves: “look in that mirror/tell yourself everything you wanna hear.” The song provides some much-appreciated irony because, though the clip starts with Rae’s character (also named Issa) saying kind, nostalgic words, her doppelganger mirror-self is berating her by the end. “I Am” may be a self-love anthem about having confidence, but “Insecure” has always been a show about struggling.

Co-created by Issa Rae and Larry Wilmore, the Emmy-winning series premiered back in 2016. It was initially born out of Rae’s acclaimed web series, “The Mis-Adventures of Awkward Black Girl,” an exploration of life as a contemporary Black woman. Rae’s series set out to show Black people just living life in L.A., and turned out to be a rousing success. Rather than being overly concerned with unpacking every single “timely” racial issue that gained traction between seasons, “Insecure” focused more on the details of its characters’ lives, centering Black voices as they navigated everyday relationship drama and career struggles. It’s a pain to watch “Insecure” go, but a pleasure to have had it at all.