Featured Friday: “Unlikeable” Female Protagonists
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.
This week, we look at those characters that every studio executive will note to death and has online misogynists frothing at the mouth: The “unlikeable” female protagonist. Which, when looking over this list, are basically all of our favorite characters. Almost like their well-defined flaws are what makes them incredibly well-written. Funny, that.
Our collection includes:
- Beef - “The Birds Don’t Sing, They Screech in Pain”
- Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- Death Becomes Her
- Fleabag - “Episode 1”
- Girls - “Pilot”
- Gone Girl
- Hard Truths
- Industry - “Sesh”
- Ingrid Goes West
- Killing Eve - “Nice Face”
- My Best Friend’s Wedding
- Promising Young Woman
- Rachel Getting Married
- Sharp Objects - “Vanish”
- Swarm - “Stung”
- Tár
- The Curse - “Episode 1”
- The Favourite
- The Good Place - “Pilot”
- The Regime - “Don’t Yet Rejoice”
- Thoroughbreds
- True Detective: Night Country - “Part 6”
- Where’d You Go, Bernadette
- Young Adult
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