Women's Dramas & Series
Reviews of long-form women-centered dramas and series. Focused analysis of key female characters and their narratives.
Pretty Little Liars: Emily Fields’ Journey Through the Forest of Secrets Toward Her True Self
We live our lives performing a precarious tightrope walk between the desire to appear perfect to others and the secrets we wish to hide. Especially during a time when defining one’s own identity…
Skam France: A Solidarity of Healing that Embraces Each Other’s Abyss Beyond Destructive Impulses
We sometimes attempt to prove our own existence by destroying ourselves. To a soul accustomed to darkness, light can often feel like pain. At the edge of a solitude where one wishes to…
Xena: Warrior Princess: An Epic of Love and Redemption Across a Barbaric Age
When we meet the one person who fully affirms us at the darkest precipice of our lives, we finally find atonement for the past and the drive for a new life. It is…
Irma Vep: An Existential Mirror of Women Encountered Within a Labyrinth of Duplicated Ghosts
We sometimes find ourselves trapped in a prison of images projected by others. Especially when the subject is an actor standing before a camera, the essence of “self” is bound to get lost,…
