Too often, stories focused on women are focused purely on the fact that they are women and their "unique" "womanly" concerns, whatever the hell those are. An endless parade of Harlequin and Lifetime. But Oit NB gives us a variety of women, with concerns from the universal to the highly personal. It's a show that has respect for its characters, because it allows them to have flaws and even the worst of them are still shown as people, not caricatures.
When I talk about wanting strong female characters, I'm not talking about characters who are stong females. I'm talking about females who are strong characters. This show has that in spades. And its success, among women and men both, shows that you can treat women as people, not just women, and still have success.
A series about women as people first
Too often, stories focused on women are focused purely on the fact that they are women and their "unique" "womanly" concerns, whatever the hell those are. An endless parade of Harlequin and Lifetime. But Oit NB gives us a variety of women, with concerns from the universal to the highly personal. It's a show that has respect for its characters, because it allows them to have flaws and even the worst of them are still shown as people, not caricatures.
When I talk about wanting strong female characters, I'm not talking about characters who are stong females. I'm talking about females who are strong characters. This show has that in spades. And its success, among women and men both, shows that you can treat women as people, not just women, and still have success.