All human beings are complicated. We have layers and dimension, moods and phases. We have our work faces, our family roles, our romantic vibes, and our inner lives. We experience joy and sadness, comfort and rage. We are fragile and we are resilient. We contain multitudes.
But popular entertainment hasn’t always portrayed women with all of these human facets, instead reducing female characters to one-dimensional archetypes. We have been wives, mothers or queens with one role to play, one face to show. In the last decade, this has changed. We have Betty Draper, Wendy Rhoades, Amy Dunne, Rachel Chu, Helen Solloway, Mary Fiore, Celeste Wright, Fleabag and so many more characters with a full expression of what it’s like to be a human being who also happens to be a woman.
No doubt this has come about due to the fact that there are more women behind the cameras, in the writers’ rooms, and at the table with the experience to produce quality entertainment. And more women watching, thinking and talking.
That’s what our podcast is about. Come deep-dive into these women and their stories, as the characters and their creators. We unpack their narratives, their psychology, and their potential — and we have a lot of fun doing it.
Complicated doesn’t have to be difficult or dark or blunt or mysterious or evil or any one thing at all.
Complicated is real.