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Shes a 30-something trying to refashion her life after her five-year relationship ends with her unexpected, unceremonious dumping.
Will Jules go to Madisons work event celebrating her vegan-chef client or choose whats behind door No.
But it handles these ideas with such shallowness it ends up saying nothing meaningful at all.
The characters are so thinly drawn theyre rendered as caricatures, dampening the few sparks of humor were afforded.
A lot of the shows issues stem from its characterizations.
Juless problems with being in groups of women are mentioned often but are never properly explored.
Are they mere circumstance or internalized sexism?
The show seems too afraid of existing in gray areas to answer that question with any honesty.
Madison is strictly career driven and overbearing, but theres little else to distinguish her.
(Although her character spotlights how issues of class and race are largely absent fromDollfacesfaux-feminist landscape.)
But its approach to feminism, which it name-checks, strikes a sour note.
Celeste is obviously intended to skewer Gwyneth Paltrow and other self-involved, wellness-focused, but capitalist-minded white women.
And does being a feminist mean supporting all women?
Shouldnt the leads have moved beyond such subFeminism 101 talk ages ago?
Unfortunately,Dollfaceisnt that show.
