Rizzoli and Isles

[tielan]

It's a nice change to watch a show that's focused on the friendship between two women.

Because Stargate, Stargate Atlantis, Sanctuary, Fringe, Merlin, H50, NCIS, and Castle all have their enjoyable points, but they tend to fail quite miserably on the female friendship front - as do their fandoms.

And, you know, I like females, and female characters, and female characters being strong and capable and intelligent and funny, and more than one female character being strong and capable and intelligent and funny in the same show at the same time.

But I'm not a huge femslasher. I just want more female characters in my shows, interacting with each other, and being awesome.

Comments

[dancewithoutyou]

Though I mostly agree with you, Merlin, for a while, did Gwen/Morgana quite well. I thought, anyway.

However, I tend to find women on t.v. terrible. Then, I don't much like women in real life either. Especially not the married ones. Something happens and they just become bitches. I don't blame writers for portraying them the way they usually do. I will give Olivia props though, and Ziva. They're two women I actually respect on television.

[tielan]

I don't like all portrayals of women on TV - especially the more 'stereotypically female' ones such as in Sex and the City, etc. - but then I don't like all women, either.

However, I'm always up for a greater variety of depictions of women: their options and their choices, their friendships and their interests. There's just not enough societal acceptance of the broad range and types of women that exist, or enough recounting of their stories - and certainly not enough portrayals of them which are driven by female writers.

It's a wide and complex world that we live in, full of complicated and layered women. And although I love them both, I should hate to narrow it solely down to the Olivias and Zivas. They are unabashedly awesome in their jobs, but they hardly represent all females everywhere and I would not necessarily recommend them as role models for personal life and personal interactions.

[dancewithoutyou]

Yes, I suppose I'd have to agree with all of that.

[infinimato]

I love, love, love R&I. I love Sasha Alexander, I love Angie Harmon, I love the way they bounce off each other. I love Bruce McGill, too, which is frosting on the cake.

The show is still a little too white for me, but I can forgive that in the face of two strong, tough, smart women who go so well together. It's so refreshing.

(I'm not much of a femslasher, either, but, geez, could I see it here.)