In the words of perpetual queen Leslie Knope–“it’s only the best day of the year!” And we are here to celebrate it with some of our favorite female friendships on screen right now. Women supporting women is everything we love and stand by. It’s everything we want to see in any film or TV show we’re watching. It’s everything we want to read about it. Women leaning on each other, women caring about each other, and women fighting for each other is something that always deserves to be celebrated, and something we’ll scream about yearly. Grab your drink of choice then reach out to your best girls and scream about your favorite fictional friendships with them. It’s time well spent, we promise.
Flynn and Julie Molina Julie and the Phantoms
At its core, Julie and The Phantoms is a series about friendships. It’s a series about loss and grief, and it’s a series finding the people who’ll know you better than you know yourself. Flynn and Julie know each other so well, there is no one without the other. There are often a lot of female friendships on TV that could cater to younger audiences, but nothing has been like what we’ve seen with Julie and Flynn because no two characters have had to experience what they do. Losing a parent is hard, and having to watch your best friend lose a parent and not know what to do about it is also something that we don’t talk about. How do you comfort that person? How do you stand beside them and help them through the darkness they’re facing. You listen. It’s that simple; the steadfast loyalty between Julie and Flynn—the understanding that the other will always be there speaks so much louder than anything else. There’s a reason Flynn has poems written about her because no one has stood by Julie’s side the way Flynn has, and no one has believed in Julie the way Flynn always will. To watch these two go through life together, be there for one another and support one another has been one of the main reasons why the series is so special. And to know that this is just the beginning is a gift on its own.