Dollface is here to remind you that "Relationships With Other Women Are Sacred And Necessary"

By Chava Kuchar

Don’t sleep on Dollface (2019 HULU) like I did. Having only watched 5 episodes so far, I cannot believe that I let the deepest lows of the pandemic pass me without knowing about this show.

In a world where women have grown up in service of the patriarchy, but are now expected to shun the system and all it’s supports, Dollface assesses and reminds us that we can’t be expected to do it all alone.

It starts upon a sudden and unexpected break up, Jules, the annoyingly pitched ‘normal girl’ protagonist played by Kat Dennings, realizes that she has allowed all her relationships with the women in her life to fall away whilst since moving in with her boyfriend.  So the series follows Jules as she sets off to rebuild old connections with her epically charged and intense girlfriends in a bid to find herself and her support system again.

On top of the rather funny and refreshing scenarios that Jules and her friends get into, her propensity for vivid daydreams provides plenty of fun, feminist reminders and self-reflection throughout the series. Dollface is the Scrubs of the millennial woman- a comedic convergence of the millennial woman’s identity crisis and the coming of age narrative of sisterhood.  

I highly recommend this show and I have little more to say than I am very grateful that they just released season 2 and that I now have many hours of Dollface ahead of me.