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Woe is marriage: ‘Until the T-Shirt Dries’ is a meandering take on middle-class ennui

Woe is marriage: ‘Until the T-Shirt Dries’ is a meandering take on middle-class ennui

japantimes.co.jp 24.09.2026 10:32 8 views
A melodramatic narrative with a ruminative core, the TBS series' constituent parts fail to come together in a satisfying way.

[Editor’s note: This article contains spoilers for “Until the T-Shirt Dries.”] Marriage, as depicted in “Until the T-Shirt Dries,” is less a partnership than a stage for performing a part sanctioned by mainstream society. In the TBS drama, women smile, accommodate loved ones and keep the peace, even as their private desires threaten to rupture the lives they have built. That makes the show’s eventual turn toward female agency potentially fascinating.

Unfortunately, the narrative spends so little time understanding the women at its center that this symbolic gesture never feels entirely earned.

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