Feminism has never been more voguish on TV. Many recent shows, including The Handmaid's Tale, The Good Fight, Big Little Lies and Killing Eve, to just name a few, have acquired commercial and critical success. HBO blockbusters like Game of Thrones and Westworld have both featured powerful female protagonists with varying degrees of awkwardness. I have watched all these shows, and they are peculiarly similar. They are all inherently commercial productions to begin with, and they all depict women who fit into the public imagination of feminism: the sort of women who are rebellious, manipulative and capable of shooting a gun unlike those James Bond girls in the good old days. There is something unsettling about this, and I am afraid that we are moving in the wrong direction despite unprecedented media attention given to women.
CARPE NOCTEM 