Dollface and Complicated Female Relationships
The moral case for understanding complicated female relationships.
Women are complicated.
It's something people have said for probably as long as women have existed. Traditionally, it's something that men have offered as an explanation when another guy is trying to figure out when a woman they know is acting in a way that they don't understand. The idea being that women are multifaceted and have a lot of layers which men never really see or come to terms with. It's these complications which make relationships between men and women so difficult. If they weren't, there wouldn't be so many stories about the way they relate to each other. Part of the point of such stories is to help show what relationships are like and find a way to come together.
More recently, there's been an attempt to show the fact that it's not just men and women who have trouble relating to each other. These dynamics aren't the only complicated aspect of relationships. Friendships can be just as complicated as any other, whether it's between men and women, men and other men, and of course women and other women. All of these ways of relating to others can be difficult to understand. Which is why we've seen the rise of such stories lately. People doing their best to showcase how their friendships with people they don't necessarily want to sleep with can be hard to navigate. In an increasingly complicated world in general, this makes a lot of sense. Not necessarily stories that provide obvious and straight forward answers, but at least insight into others since we seem to have so much difficulty relating to others these days.
Dollface is at its core about the complications of trying to relate to others. In particular, the way in which Jules, Madison, Stella and Izzy as played by Kat Dennings, Brenda Song, Shay Mitchell and Esther Povitsky respectively struggle to relate to each other. Jules has lost herself in a relationship with a guy and when that relationship falls apart, she comes to recognize that she's let her friendships go by the wayside. As a result, she tries to reconnect with her friends and build the relationships that she used to have.
It's a fascinating examination of the ways in which the lives people have can create fractures and other problems. Building things back to what they were or at least creating new connections with people you used to know can be complicated. It's far from straight forward and requires a lot of effort on those involved. Otherwise you run the risk of simply allowing what tore you apart to reemerge and destroy those bonds all over again. What makes it so interesting is the way in which it never really takes the easy way out. It doesn't just forget that people have all kinds of layers that you may not actually be seeing. Effort is necessary in order to make it okay for them to reveal this to you.
Take the time to explore these complications by checking out Dollface as soon as you can.
Check it out Hulu in the United States, Crave in Canada and Amazon as well.
This show is amazing! I had binge watched it all in one day. Great review on it!