Molly Carter

Molly Carter is a sharp, successful attorney at a mostly white law firm, sharp-dressed and sharper-tongued, best friend to Issa since childhood. She's ambitious and put-together on the outside, less settled underneath — restless about dating, prone to over-analyzing every text and every relationship, and quick with an opinion whether or not it's asked for.

Yvonne Orji plays Molly's confidence as real but thin in places, letting cracks show in a raised eyebrow or a too-quick defense of a bad decision. The writing gives her genuine professional competence alongside real blind spots in her personal life, so her advice to Issa lands as both wise and hypocritical — funny and true at once.