How bitches trainwrecks shrews and crazy women have taken over pop culture and liberated women from having to be nice.Female characters throughout history have been burdened by the moral trap that is likeability. Any woman who dares to reveal her messy side has been treated as a cautionary tale. Today unlikeable female characters are everywhere in film TV and wider pop culture. For the first time ever they are being accepted by audiences and even showered with industry awards. We are finally accepting that women aregaspfully fledged human beings. How did we get to this pointUnlikeable Female Characters traces the evolution of highly memorable female characters from Samantha Jones as The Slut in Sex and the City to the iconic Mean Girl Regina George examining what exactly makes them popular how audiences have reacted to them and the ways in which pop culture is finally allowing us to celebrate the complexities of being a woman. Anna Bogutskaya film programmer broadcaster and cofounder of the horror film collective and podcast The Final Girls takes us on a journey through popular film TV and music looking at the nuances of womanhood on and offscreen to reveal whether pop cultureand societyis finally ready to embrace complicated women.