", Shay Mitchell, Brenda Song and Kat Dennings in 'Dollface.' Dollface 's loudest calling card will be its surreal fantasy sequences that realize metaphor into kooky, trippy scenarios. Other reality-bending moments include a FOMO game show called “Should She Go Out?,” a dealership for “new and pre-owned dudes,” a chasm opening under a brunch table and a full-on “Wizard of Oz” episode. Much of “Dollface” and its critique of contemporary womanhood is barely skin-deep, but it has such a good skin care routine it’s hard to mind. A literal cat lady (with a really terrible computer-graphics cat head) drives up in a bus to retrieve her and other recently dumped women. "Younger"!). When Jules asks if she should warn him so he doesn’t also contract feelings, the doctor bursts out laughing. Would “Dollface” be better if it were meaner, or if it were nicer? There's also a cat lady (voiced by Beth Grant) who is literally a large cat in a dress who, uhhh, honestly, I don't know what she does, but she's around a lot to dispense advice, possibly representing Jules' future, I guess. Part of the problem is the writers' choice to manifest Jules' insecurities and struggles through fantasy sequences that are neither fantastical nor consistent enough to work. (Aaron Epstein/Hulu). The creativity is there, but the depth is lacking, and the frequent hyperreality (episodes average two of these sequences) comes and goes without ever really saying anything.

Do you lack even basic human empathy or a sense of acceptable social boundaries? Jules’s boss is dippy, her ex-boyfriend is worthless, her pets are named after “Entourage” characters.
The story of Dennings' Jules is actually a pretty familiar one, and it's what gives the show much of its kick: Dumped by her boyfriend of five years, she realizes that she's lost touch with all of her girlfriends, having abandoned them while in the throes of couplehood. The world of the series is heightened to the point of absurdity, like a bunch of sponsored Instagram influencer posts brought to life in all their unreality. It raises its hand as if it has something to say on a bunch of relatable topics -- friendship, post-breakup blues, feminism -- but then just lists the topics. "Jane the Virgin!" material, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a good time. The story’s endorsement of companionship is earnest, but most of the friendships seem unhealthy, and the show pulls away from meaningful intimacy. "Dollface" won't be everyone's cup of tea, but one suspects a portion of the audience will be enamored with it. Read Next: Adele Hosting ‘Saturday Night Live’ Next Week With Musical Guest H.E.R. Dollface Review: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Friendship. Jules is a cipher, which is kind of the point of the series, but makes her a boring and at times annoying anchor for the show. There's nothing about that synopsis, on its own, that sounds particularly objectionable – in fact, there are glimmers of what an insightful show about female identity this series could have been every so often in the 10-episode season.

(Aaron Epstein/Hulu) That sums up “Dollface” as a whole, too — its fantasies aren’t fanciful enough to compel us, and its reality seems perpetually elided. (The entire first season arrived Friday on Hulu.) More: Disney+ to Apple TV+ to Netflix: All the major streaming services, ranked. I devoured the first six episodes in a gleeful blitz, though the subsequent four slowed considerably. Dollface book. Madison exaggerates the maturity level of her friends to impress her older boyfriend with a formal dinner party. Now alone and with no identity of her own, Jules seeks to reconnect with her pre-Jeremy friends, who have all moved on with their lives and aren't keen on reconnecting their BFF pendants with someone who ditched them for a dude. Dollface spends all of its time showing the hardships they face as they try to rebuild their friendship, but without ever defining what their friendship was in the first place (perhaps their friendship is based on taking pictures together if the montages are any indication); there are no moments of them being good friends except for an occasional apology and a declaration of, "We're friends again!" Viewed most generously, the show’s form follows its story: Jules might be seen as running from herself, and the show similarly tries to escape any scene that says something about her and her friend group. Shay Mitchell, left, and Brenda Song play friends and frequent dispensers of advice, much of it terrible. Show full articles without "Continue Reading" button for {0} hours.
It's a story about friends who, as far as we can tell, should absolutely not be friends, and not in an incisive or subversive way like You're the Worst redefining romantic comedy by putting two selfish disasters together. Review: ‘Dollface’ Aims for #Squadgoals but Comes Up Short. By Tim Surette @timsurette Nov 14, 2019 9:30 AM EST. She’ll need to use protection — “hooking up with at least two other people” — and stay away from the guy for a few weeks. The core dynamic between Madison and Jules seems to be Madison criticizing Jules' decisions and telling her how to live her life, and then getting mad at Jules when she finally finds her spine and tries to give Madison advice or an honest opinion. Yes, the show can feel like a watered-down “Man Seeking Woman” and “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” but there are worse things to be. One often-roasted TV trope here in the TV Guide offices is female friendship that devolves into catty fights between besties over the same guy or the same goal or the same shoes, turning what should be wholesome camaraderie into shrieking name-calling and shattered wine glasses. Izzy (Esther Povitsky) rounds out the friend group as the least-believable human, a woman so insecure and directionless she pretends her name is "Alison" at work to get in with two genuine Alisons. At the same time, she's prone to flights of fantasy, which includes regular visitations by a cat-faced lady (Beth Grant), offering a glimpse of her potentially lonely, single future. Review by Brian Lowry, CNN. Jules has to hold a chasm together as it splits apart. Do you dress every day like you just walked off a New York Fashion Week runway? TV Review: ‘Dollface’ With Kat Dennings This post-breakup odyssey, starring Kat Dennings, leans heavily on quirk, forsaking character in the process. Even Jules’s work at a startup — a chance for a show seemingly interested in cultural commentary about this precise moment — feels hazy, with her parody of a hard-driving #girlboss (Malin Akerman, who’s been allowed to be much better elsewhere) too strange to say anything comprehensible about the workplace in 2019 but too dull to work as outsized comedy. “No. Shay Mitchell, Brenda Song and Kat Dennings in 'Dollface.' Kat Dennings stars as a woman negotiating a breakup, neglected friendships and the occasional advice-giving, bus-driving cat. Apart from the fantasy sequences, "Dollface" has little in the way of compelling character work. The comedy stars Kat Dennings as Jules, who we meet mid-brunch as she's getting unsympathetically dumped by her boyfriend of half-a-decade Jeremy (Connor Hines). Read 354 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Stella and Izzy literally take a backseat to Madison in Jules' life, but they seem like a better fit for Jules' friendship -- even though they're also prone to meddling in her life and thinking they know what's best for her. The cleverly executed cameos  (Dave Coulier, Macaulay Culkin) and tossed-off lines (“the heir to the Capri-Sun fortune”) point toward a welcome prickliness, but the show can’t quite stick to those guns — if it did, Jules would realize how vacuous her existence is. “Feelings are always a risk whenever you are sexually active,” the doctor warns her.

Together they spend most of their time explaining to Jules how the world works. “Dollface” seems designed to be Instagrammed. The characters could — should — look at one another and ask, “Why are we friends?”; I should ask the show the same thing. In recent years, roles for women and writing for female characters have gotten much better, but even with the darling Playing House or the progressive The Bold Type or the through-thick-and-thin Broad City, honest female friendship still doesn't get its due on TV. In one of the better early moments, the trio go to a club, a sequence that explains -- for every guy who has ever wondered -- why women make a point of going to the bathroom together in such locales. Unfortunately, it's as thin as the supposed friendship between Jules and Madison. Do you go to brunch every Sunday? But after 10 episodes of Dollface forcing Jules and her best friend Madison (Brenda Song) to give friendship another shot, you'll be rooting for them to unfollow each other on Instagram or whatever people do these days when they're over someone. The series, created by newcomer Jordan Weiss, follows Jules (Kat Dennings), a woman who, when dumped by her boyfriend of five years, realizes that she has allowed herself to be subsumed into his life – living in his apartment, socializing with his friends – over the course of the relationship, and feels adrift and alone without him. Dollface premieres Friday, Nov. 15 on Hulu. Jules thus goes about the task of reconnecting with her pals Madison (Brenda Song) and Stella (Shay Mitchell), an accomplished name-dropper, who aren't exactly eager to welcome her back.


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