When Candy Magnolias returned for Season 4 on the 2025 TV schedule, I used to be extremely longing for a number of issues. I needed the romantic present to noticeably up its drama from the considerably disappointing Season 3. I wanted to see Helen and Erik lastly get collectively for actual. And, at the back of my thoughts, though I didn’t say it out loud or write about it, I actually needed one thing for Dana Sue that hadn’t been current for her character for the reason that first season.
So, let’s have a look at a facet of the small city romance (and about Dana Sue particularly) that’s been bugging me for the reason that sequence began. First, although, I am going to begin with some causes I do love the sequence.
Look, I Really Love All Of The Range On Candy Magnolias
One of many causes that I and lots of different followers with a Netflix subscription can’t wait to binge the entire dramatic happenings in Serenity, South Carolina each time a brand new season of Candy Magnolias arrives is due to how various the city is. There are characters who give us LGBTQ+ illustration like Isaac, vital characters who symbolize a large socioeconomic vary, from Maddie, Helen and Dana Sue’s comparatively well-off households to somebody like CeCe, whose household is working class.
After all, there are additionally the townsfolk who come from a number of racial and ethnic backgrounds and present a large spectrum of human bodily range in different methods. This consists of Dana Sue, who’s one of many three titular characters and likewise exhibits followers some a lot wanted dimension range that we nonetheless don’t continuously see on tv or in films (or in music for that matter, however I digress…).
Simply the truth that Dana Sue is a plus-sized girl whose story isn’t centered round wanting or needing to drop extra pounds, or her well being usually (regardless of the one episode in Season 1 the place we noticed her move out and must make some modifications due to her predisposition to Sort 2 Diabetes) is a game-changer (although it shouldn’t be by this cut-off date).
She’s a busy skilled who owned her personal restaurant the place she was the pinnacle chef till Season 4, she’s a mother, and she or he’s been allowed to have a number of life experiences over the course of the sequence, together with being flirty, courting and having sizzling, against-the-wall-sex every now and then. I really like what the present has completed with Dana Sue!
However I Actually Want Dana Sue, As The Solely Plus-Sized Character, Had A Extra Diversified Wardrobe
I gotta inform ya, this has been an enormous sticking level for me all through the present. A lot in order that, when going again to Season 1 when Dana Sue’s garments first began to trouble me, I had erased what little selection there was in her outfits. So, right here’s the difficulty; she’s in principally the identical silhouette 90% of the time. It’s both her chef uniform or it’s this:
Hear, I’m not knocking this look usually. It really works, and she or he’s by no means regarded unhealthy on the present. However, to see Dana Sue in what is basically the identical outfit (floaty gown with a belt and floaty sleeves) however in several colours and patterns (And typically full size! Or perhaps with a distinct neckline!) on a regular basis is only a nonsensical disgrace.
Additionally, can we please get her some new belts? Anybody who isn’t plus-sized and notices style would suppose that there are solely two belts that massive girls all around the world simply move round like The Sisterhood of the Touring Waist-Cinchers, and y’all…That. Ain’t. IT!
Clearly, I do know nothing in regards to the behind-the-scenes stuff that has gone into this determination making course of. For all I do know, Dana Sue’s portrayer, Brooke Elliott, is extra comfy in that look than some other and prefers it. All I need is for there to be far more sartorial selection to go well with the spunky, attractive woman that we’ve come to know Dana Sue as. I really feel like Season 4 trended in an upward course, so I’ve hopes that if Candy Magnolias returns for a fifth go-round, issues shall be even higher!