friendship

How Firefly Lane Depicts a Messy and Moving Female Friendship

This article contains spoilers for Firefly Lane. There’s something altogether predictable yet endearing about Firefly Lane, the latest in a line of Netflix shows adapted from the realm of romance and/or women’s fiction with a clear strength of star power at its center. It’s a story that spans three decades of friendship between two women who meet in their teenage years, following them through their strongest and lowest points in life (both together and apart) and all of the heartache, turmoil and drama that provides.  In short, it’s prime material to mine from, and seemingly tailor-made for the types of…
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Eloise & Penelope: The Power of Female Friendship in Bridgerton

This Bridgerton article contains major spoilers for the season finale. Netflix’s Bridgerton is, at its heart, a story about finding your person, whomever they may be. And while viewers naturally swoon over the romance between debutante Daphne Bridgerton and roguish duke Simon Basset – and their many, many steamy encounters backed by instrumental Taylor Swift tracks – the show is about much more than the will they/won’t they pull of a specific courtship. In fact, Bridgerton is full of love stories of multiple varieties, and the show unabashedly centers the affection that exists between parents and children, siblings, and friends…
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Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous Reveals That Friendship is When Trust Defeats Loneliness

In Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, a group of teenagers from very different walks of life learn that they have to depend on one another in order to survive the ordeal of being abandoned on an island full of dinosaurs. As much as the series revolves around escaped dinosaurs, jump scares, and corporate conspiracy, at its core are six lonely teenagers who really just want to have someone to connect to. By the time the season has concluded, those teens have found that they can trust each other with their lives, if not with everything else. Darius The series opens with…
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