The true beauty of streaming, besides the seemingly endless abyss of content that it offers, is the depth and breadth of its content. First it was cable TV that extended the limitations of what we could watch on TV. Then came pay TV. Now, with streaming, content creators have been allowed to explore any genre, travel any realm, break from any traditional storytelling format. Gone are the days when shows were limited to the half-hour sitcom or the one-hour drama all in the same familiar format. Now, any show can be anything to anyone, each show with the same chance of being a hit with a huge following or finding a cult following with a niche audience.
When I watched Baby Reindeer on Netflix last year, I felt like I was watching something I would or could have never seen on mainstream television ten years ago. It was something so bold, so different, so fascinating and disturbing, which is probably why it became so culturally engaging. I literally couldn’t stop watching. 
I felt the same with another show I just stumbled upon, called Such Brave Girls, which can be found on Hulu. This show will not find an audience the way Baby Reindeer did, that’s for sure, but it most definitely is a show I would never have found on mainstream television twenty years ago, probably not even ten or five years ago.
Such Brave Girls is a British comedy that was released in December 2023, and I’ve never seen anything like it. It is about a single mother, played by Louise Brealey, and her two teenage daughters, played by real life sisters Kat Sadler and Lizzie Davidson, who are left bitter and angry after their father abandons them. But the more you get to know the mother and sisters, the more you understand why he left. These people are the worst. Narcissistic, toxic, selfish—the word dysfunctional was invented for this family. But in the same way we enjoyed watching Seinfeld because we loved watching awful people continually be awful, Such Brave Girls is magnificent in its toxicity—and the only target they make of their own humor is themselves.
I cannot stress enough how cringe this show is, but I also cannot emphasize how hard you will laugh, if cringe comedy is your thing. If you are one of those people who recognize that Succession is actually a comedy, if you loved Death of Stalin, if you loved Veep, if you loved War of the Roses, then Such Brave Girls is the show for YOU.
The writing is brilliant, the performances are insanely good.
Here’s just one line I managed to write down, as an example:
Daughter to mother, while at the funeral home: “Are we going to heaven?”
Mother: “There’s no point, we wouldn’t know anyone.”
Such Brave Girls is six short, perfect episodes of terrible people being narcissistic and painfully awful, but it is so refreshing to see television this good, this different, this bold, this daring and this confident. And I’m so happy to see it’s been renewed for a second season. I can’t wait.
Season one of Such Brave Girls is available on Hulu.