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
Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. Download for free!
Check out last week's screenplay collection of Basketball Films!
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