You’ve likely heard of superhero fatigue, but I’d like to add another kind of fatigue moviegoers and show-watchers are experiencing; the strong female protagonist.
It seems lately you can’t walk into a theater or turn on a show without the lead character being a woman smarter than everyone else, more skilled than everyone else, or having some advantage that shames everyone around her, especially the men. These characters are usually two-dimensional and about as exciting as watching paint dry. They’re infested with groan-inducing one-liners and are supposed to look stoic but just come off looking emotionless and lacking any personality.
Bizarrely, Hollywood can’t stop making these characters even though films that sport these badass female protagonists bomb time after time. What’s worse, is that these showrunners and writers will look at the criticism and proclaim that the only…
