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Female friendships have been a television mainstay for nearly as long as there hasbeentelevision.
Lucy and EthelsI Love Lucyhigh jinks hit CBS in 1951, within a decade of the networks creation.
Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrences real-life friendship shone through on the innovative sketch-comedy seriesThe Carol Burnett Show.
Dead to Me, the first season of which premiered in 2019, also started off with troubled unions.
Each series asked viewers to engage with its world on its own terms.
And as Allison and Patty grew more defined, their friendship did, too.
InKevin Can F*** Himselfs second season premiere,Mrs.
Once Allison and Patty, and Jen and Judy, found each other, how could they part?
The irony here, of course, is that this interdependence is born out of death.
Patty is unmoored, and Inboden adds an edge of despair to all her interactions with other people.
Pattys admission that now that Im left here without her, I dont feel better off.
So thats whatKevin Can F*** Himselfdoes.
With him gone, they can be themselves.
Theyve grieved, plotted, and fibbed.
Theyve confirmed what they dont want out of life, and with whom they want to cut ties.
Theyve navigated the murky morality of whether their actions were justified, and accepted the toll of their actions.
