Monday, May 16, 2011

Dear new fall TV shows,

Because, apparently, this is all I care about these days.  That's not true, but I pay special attention to this issue.  It makes me laugh because I know that my piece "Personality Pin-Ups" with the Performing Feminisms class creates a bit of an expectation about my opinions about this. 

This is disappointing.  I know that I've only been given less than three minutes for each show, but nothing looked good.  Nothing here looks promising.  There's not a single (lead) female character in this clips that caught my attention.  They change nothing about how I want women to be seen on television.  There was maybe one supporting female character that interested me, but not a single woman in a lead role that was even interesting

Again and again there's not a female character onscreen that I want to identify with, there's not anyone I can aspire to be and not be ashamed. 

So maybe it's time to write something for myself.  We'll see how this summer goes.  Because I'm sick of waiting around for a pilot that doesn't look like it's going to disappoint me four minutes in. 


love,
hannah

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