Six writers reflect on their favorite onscreen friends and their own real-life relationships
Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: HBO, Hulu In television as in dating, we come for the romance but stay for the friendship. The best TV friendships make us nostalgic for old friends, teach us about our current platonic relationships, and inspire us to seek more, different, and deeper connections. Sure, most of the time they’re mindless fun, but with the characters below, they can also be a mirror that reflects back our own friendships and shows us the things we can’t see on our own.
PEN15 released its last season in December. I miss the show the way I missed my friends between our shared classes in middle school. It’s not like it’s been gone that long; it’s not like I can’t see it again pretty much whenever I want.
No onscreen friendship illustrates the raw pain — and the transformative potential — of those contraction periods more than Insecure’s Issa and Molly . Tension grows silently between these two best friends from college as Molly’s career takes off while Issa struggles to get her own venture off the ground. It breaks through to the surface when Molly accuses Issa of ginning up drama in her romantic life, then explodes when Issa violates the boundaries Molly set around a serious relationship.
Between Arabella and Terry, the mantra “Your birth is my birth, your death is my death” serves as a reminder of the importance of their friendship, and the series spends as much time developing their relationship as it does any romantic one. Not at all clean-cut, their development as best friends reveals that they will always be at the forefront of each other’s lives, and the show flashes back in later episodes to their friendship as teenagers.
Taissa and Shauna from Yellowjackets Photo: Michael Courtney/SHOWTIME A lot has been said about the toxic friendship between queen-bee Jackie and wallflower Shauna on Yellowjackets. But now that Jackie’s dead, I’m absorbed by the budding friendship between Shauna and Taissa . Precrash, they were Jersey enemies: Shauna disapproved of Taissa, whose cutthroat cruelty on the soccer field ended in a weak teammate busting open her leg.
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