Women's Dramas & Series
Reviews of long-form women-centered dramas and series. Focused analysis of key female characters and their narratives.
Love, Victor (2022): Expanding My World Through Warmth
Sometimes, we do not love only after discovering who we are; rather, it is through the process of loving someone that we discover how much we can change. This is precisely what renders…
Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin — Summer School: Dangerous Solidarity Born of Trauma
Some relationships do not save us; instead, they force us to confront the parts of ourselves we have desperately ignored. When the wounds and desires we buried in the name of safety suddenly…
Just Another Love Story (2019) — A Nepali Web Drama on the Boundary of Friendship and Love
Sometimes, a person comes to question who they truly are through the very individual who has stood by them the longest. When a familiar friendship suddenly wavers with feelings of desire and love,…
Buenos Chicos Brumora: Between Friendship and Love, on Unnamed Emotions
We can never pinpoint the exact moment we begin to love someone. When a friendship quietly shifts its weight into something else, we find ourselves asking when that transformation truly began. The relationship…
Vampire Academy: An Analysis of the Narrative Between Mia and Meredith, Breaking the Walls of Class
When two souls living under the shackles of class within isolated walls face their respective voids, love becomes the name of a solidarity that transcends mere survival. Mia, who wore cold rationality like…
No abras la puerta (2014): The Fetters of Queer Relationships and the Desire for Family in a Chilean Telenovela
Anyone can mistake obsession over another person for love, or tear down their own relationship out of the terror of abandonment. We dream of complete solidarity and a perfect family, but in the…
