In a post MeToo television landscape, female protagonists have begun to bear their fangs — and these portrayals of unapologetic anger are just as therapeutic for viewers
Historically, TV’s crossest women have often been nagging wives and shrewish singletons. Anger, after all, is considered an “unfeminine” quality, and young girls are routinely socialized to tamp down their emotions to take on traits like passivity and agreeableness.
As real-life women have taken to social media to document their collective fury — about politics, about #MeToo malfeasance, about gendered labor disparities throughout the pandemic — they have seen their ferocity increasingly reflected back on them during this golden age of TV storytelling.
A number of 2021 comedies capitalized on fang-baring, their casts rousing my frequent laughter, occasional screams and intermittent full-body cringes. Few black comedies are as uncomfortably relatable as Apple TV+’s 1980s-set
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