Big Little Lies Media Analysis

This media analysis will define the gynosocial truth about female relationships in the TV show, “Big Little Lies” (2017). The friendship of Madeline Martha Mackenzie (Reese Witherspoon), Celeste Wright (Nicole Kidman), Bonnie Carlson (Zoe Kravitz) and Jane Chapman (Shailene Chapman) define the mutual bonding between women under the threat of misogynistic males. The end of the TV show promotes the interconnected loyalties of women that have been abused by men, since they unite to protect Bonnie after killing, Perry Wright (Alexander Skarsgard). This plot resolution defines the more likely outcome of women that unite to protect each other from male violence in the home. These gynosocial aspects of the TV show are important factors that bring forth a tendency for …show more content…
The gynosocial aspects of this TV series provide an important insight into the realities of female empowerment in the Unite States. Celeste’s struggle against her husband, Perry, accumulates around the violence and sexual aggression of males in American society. Violence against aggressive males by women has a historical precedent that goes against the premise of this show being a “fantasy” for American women. The history of the American feminist movements, the Dahomey women warriors, and other aspects of feminist empowerment are very realistic aspects of female unity against patriarchal misogyny. “big Little Lies” depicts the ability of women to unite against a common threat through cooperation and organizational intuition. The women of Big Little Lies provides an important example of an instance in which women cooperate to achieve the common goal of ending the threat of Perry’s violence against female members of this particular group. Certainly, this TV show devolves the idea that feminist empowerment is a “fantasy” that can only be interpreted within the feminist