. It’s a genuinely hilarious, frequently foul-mouthed, and often foul-minded coming-of-age story. It’s also a genre series that uses the familiar trappings of superhero fiction to say something fresh and interesting about its characters. And it’s the rare show whosetakes everything that worked in its first and doubles down, expanding and deepening its world and characters in both entertaining and deeply satisfying ways.
In a pop culture landscape that’s still heavily male-centric, too many shows that center the stories of young women fall victim to lazy stereotypes and tired tropes.
“They just support each other in such a huge way,” Oxenham says. “And they know each other so well. Both good and bad.” There’s certainly something unique about knowing someone well enough—and trusting that other person enough—to be a bad person in front of them and trust that they’ll still like you afterward.