The character-driven Girl, Woman, Other is engaging mainly because of its attention to detail, which is a major characteristic of this year’s great shows: Characters like a nonbinary social media influencer and an ambitious grocery-store employee, who might be treated like stock clichés in lesser hands, are given the luxury of a full story in Girl, Woman, Other-no easy feat, given that each chapter spans roughly forty pages. All twelve of Evaristo’s characters-there’s London-based black lesbian playwright Amma and her headstrong, unapologetically progressive aspiring-journalist daughter Yazz, as well as Amma’s best friend Dominique, who is trapped in an abusive relationship-overflow with irrepressible humanity. Still, the prospect of seeing Evaristo’s work on-screen is particularly exciting because of the specificity of the worlds she describes.
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