The last decade or more has seen a glut of "messy millennial women" on screen, in books, and on stages — from Lena Dunham's Girls to novels by Sally Rooney and Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag (the play and the series).
They're narcissistic women with self-destructive tendencies, who act out via unfulfilling casual sex, binge-drinking and inappropriate workplace behaviour. Their actions are often a response to a traumatic event; to feelings of pain, grief or guilt.
