#claire devlin

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One of the best things about it is that women are allowed to have traits and experiences that only men have the privilege of having in most stories. How often have u seen girl groups getting to goof around and getting into shenanigans? Hell, when was the last time u even saw a female friend group that wasn't centred around relationships and male approval? They're teenage girls and they get to act like it. They're allowed to have flaws and biases that make people uncomfortable or create problems, which makes them human, which is the whole point of having flaws. Likewise the mother and aunt are allowed to be as ridiculous and immature as they want, a trait that's always given to men with women just rolling their eyes at them and constantly having to be the reasonable ones.

In the new series, i love the range of female characters and their personalities (sry I've forgotten most of the names now lol). Women being bored of the confines of their lives and roles. A writer who's sick of only having thrilling experiences in her writing, a mother who needs a break, and a closeted lesbian who could never come out and lives with that regret. I love how ordinary their lives are (well apart from the writer), they have some of their scenes in Dara's kitchen where she takes care of her mother, and Robin's house with the chaos of her children, it just felt so human and relatable. That said, I love that 3 middle aged women get to try and solve a murder mystery and have all these dangerous experiences. I love how Robin's out there doing that when her husband needs to work and take care of the kids, a role so often played by women that it's just an implicit assumption taken for granted in so many stories. I especially love Greta, who's just trying to run away from her past and constantly ends up with one murder after the other. Most stories have this 'friend group' that sticks with u against all odds no matter what, but I love that the girls admit, years later, that they always knew that there was some darkness in Greta's life and they wanted to get away, which is unfortunately much more realistic for teenagers