Our decades-long romanticization of found families helps explain the freshness of a TV series like “Rain Dogs,” a tragicomedy that understands how volitional bonds can be just as toxic as familial ones.
Television loves found families: the broods of urban singles , the gradual coalescence among dissimilar roommates , the incestuous intimacy between co-workers , and, more recently, the chosen families that make queer survival possible . Our decades-long romanticization of surrogate clans helps explain the freshness of a series like HBO/BBC’s “Rain Dogs,” a tragicomedy that understands how volitional bonds can be just as toxic as familial ones.
“Rain Dogs” spans eight half-hour episodes, during which Costello and Iris bounce around nearly as many residences, including council housing and a women’s shelter. On its face, the show bears many similarities to “Maid,” the 2021 Netflix adaptation of Stephanie Land’s memoir about an impoverished single mother who escapes an abusive relationship and runs into bureaucratic hurdles to economic relief.
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