Of course, by “complicated people,” I mean, “complicated men.” There are very few female characters — there’s Woody Harrelson’s wife, Woody Harrelson’s mistress, Woody Harrelson’s daughters, and a bunch of naked female murder victims. The inability to write complicated female characters — characters who are fully realized people, in other words — makes it seem like you don’t understand that women are fully realized people. But even further than that, Elementary has gone out of it’s way to create dynamic female characters. You shouldn’t have to fight me on how True Detective isn’t actually sexist, if only I’d give it another shot. You don’t need to tell me that it’s a great show, if I could get past the lack of female characters.

Source: Huffington Post February 22, 2017 20:26 UTC