One of Them Days with Keke Palmer and SZA as roommates tells about one disastrous day in their lives. So many things go wrong, but a couple of things go right. I thought it was funny and a heartfelt look into friendship.

One of Them Days made me laugh out loud. The jokes were often visual – a credit score on a computer monitor, a card on the screen in big red letters counting down to certain doom, and A LOT of hair jokes.

Let me run down the plot real fast. Dreux (Keke Palmer) and Alyssa’s (SZA) were roommates. Dreux worked at a restaurant, Alyssa was an artist who hadn’t sold a painting. Alyssa’s current boy toy Keshawn (Joshua David Neal) blew the rent money so they were going to be evicted. To make money fast they tried everything. Alyssa was the cause of every disaster in the film. Trusting a man with the rent money was just her first mistake.

Dreux had a job interview at 4 PM and needed to look good and be calm for the meeting. But before that could happen, they had to come up with cash.

They gave blood. That’s where they ran into Ruby (Janelle James), a phlebotomist on her first day at work. A disaster at the blood bank meant they got no money and they had ruined bloody clothes.

Alyssa climbed a light pole and retrieved some shoes from a wire. They sold the shoes for enough cash. But the guy who owned the shoes came after them with death threats.

They tried to borrow money at a payday loan place. A Greek chorus (okay, just one guy) named Lucky (Katt Williams) tried to warm them off doing it. But it didn’t stop them from trying. Inside, Kathy (Keyla Monterroso Mejia) refused the loan after laughing hysterically at their credit score.

They tried to get money back from Keshawn but made the girl whose bed he was in mad, so she started chasing them all over town. Thanks another of Alyssa’s dumb mistakes, the angry girlfriend chased them to Dreux’s job interview (which Dreux was fantastic at) and ruined her day again.

They went back to their apartment to learn they were already evicted. Even crazier, a white girl (Maude Apatow) was moving into their apartment complex. Every one of the hustling entrepreneurs who lived there stood outside staring at the clueless white girl. Druex and Alyssa saw her apartment. It was actually nice – no caved in ceiling, water that ran – nice. The only nice apartment in the entire place.

I won’t say the white girl generated a white savior plot, but she did buy one of Alyssa’s paintings, which gave Dreux a good idea. Dreux was the savior in this story.

Oh, did I mention the fire? And the guy Dreux had been crushing on, Maniac (Patrick Cage), turned out to be firefighter? He deserves a mention as the savior in an oxygen mask.

This funny disaster/success of a day is streaming on Netflix. Let me know what you think if you watch it.