Sentences with phrase «unlikable women»

But she's been at her best when she's had the opportunity to play complicated, flawed and sometimes unlikable women, as she has as the star of the indie drama «Trucker» and in her recent turn as Woody Harrelson's frustrated wife on HBO's «True Detective.»

So it makes sense that, when asked to pick five favorite female performances, Monaghan also chose actresses who played complicated, flawed and sometimes unlikable women.

Of course, women have also historically found escape in cheery romances and weepy melodramas: The uncomplicated pleasures of the utopia often prove a stronger draw than the fraught ones of the unhappy or unlikable woman.

Not exact matches

The majority of fiction readers are female, and the majority of those giving pushback to «unlikable» heroines are women.