They were funnier when they focused on them going on wacky pot fuelled adventures in NYC. Them in Central park, on the train. St Marks st, a NYU dorm room to smoke weed, trying to go up state to a wedding..... Classic episodes that NY'ers could relate to at some base level.
Once politics and their relationships with men and their careers became more of the plot it started to fall off. It was funnier when NYC was the draw