Freeform’s Single Drunk Female takes a stark look at the morning after
Photo: Elizabeth Sisson/Freeform The shows that defined a version of “millennial” life in the 2010s were all about letting women behave badly: Girls, Broad City, Shrill. Women in their 20s, liberated from tradition and expectation by diminishing job prospects and out-of-control housing prices, could finally do whatever they wanted. They drank, they fucked, they did drugs, they hopped from one low-paying job to another while sharing an apartment with a revolving cast of roommates.
The show plays with long-standing cultural scripts we have around alcohol and its abuse. We still imagine drinking too much as a lonely thing, something that older people do alone at home to cope.
What makes recognizing alcohol abuse so difficult, particularly in younger people, is that it’s so normalized. When everyone you know is drinking to the point of blacking out every weekend, how are you to know when your behavior slides into too much? When showrunner and writer Simone Finch began writing the pilot, based on her life, she didn’t yet know that she was an alcoholic. “It was very much, ‘Haha, she’s a hot mess. This is so funny,’” Finch recently told the Boston Globe.
Single Drunk Female is also the first show to seriously tackle a generational shift around drinking. More and more millennial women are going sober, coining new terms like “sober curious” and testing their relationships to drinking without identifying as alcoholics. Some have coined millennials “Generation Sober,” but perhaps it’s Gen Z whose diminished drinking habits mark a “turning point” for the booze industry.
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