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“Friends” And The Illusion of Perfect Adult Friendships

But you’d never know that from watching television. From Friends to Living Single to Grey’s Anatomy to New Girl, TV reinforces the fantasy that true friendships are and should be deeply close but require no real effort to maintain. It’s a stark difference from the way we know friendships operate in our own lives — as meaningful but sometimes fleeting relationships that can eventually dissolve because we have no language, script, or social expectation for how to seriously integrate friendships into our adult lives.

Claws Is A Love Letter To The Proud, Strip Mall-Fabulous American Woman

What makes Claws special is that the fashion is true to life. These women aren’t aspirational in the traditional sense; their clothing is largely accessible to any woman who might choose to seek it out. But that’s the genius of the show’s intentional costume design.

As extravagant as these women’s fashion choices are, they never feel out of place because the characters move through the world as though they belong. While they lean into their new identities as criminal overlords, they also lean into their authentic selves: They reclaim the invocation of “trashy” as a descriptor and turn it around on itself, signposting that they will always be vamps and never give up their big hair and rhinestones.