I have totally underestimated Prime series! I was sick one day and totally caught up on my Tivo'd shows and decided to browse Prime series. I ended up binge watching all 10 episodes over two days. This show, story line adaptation and cast was AMAZING. I hope this gets picked up again.
... View MoreThis series is a breathtaking departure from today's "sad excuse for content". The actors were very well cast. Genevieve Angelson is "brilliant" and so easy to watch. I just can't say enough about her! Anna Camp is always a joy, and this role allowed her to showcase more of her talent. It was also cool to see Hunter Parrish. He did a solid job here, and was so good in Weeds. I hope to keep seeing all of these wonderful actors in more and more, well written productions.The story highlights many of the struggles of women in this country, to simply be treated fair. When viewed with a younger audience, they would continue to ask "if the comments and behavior, was being exaggerated, to tell the story"?I must say it is a remarkable telling of a part of our history. And 40+ years later, the beat goes on ... as women today are still not given equal rights.But this story reminds us that "Good Girl's REVOLT!"
... View MoreI think the program shows younger women what a past generation has won for them and rights, like equal pay, that are still to come.Young women need to realize there are still fights to win so the program needs to continue to show women they need continue to demand more.Many older women have spent their entire lives fighting for the ability to have the same jobs as men and the same pay for the those jobs. I am excited that "Good Girls Revolt" tells the story of how women of another generation fought so for these rights so younger women could enjoy equal jobs and hopefully equal pay. It used to be that medical school or law school classes had one or 2 students in a class and now they are 60% women. We need to continue to educate this generation with shows that both entertain them and inspire them to action. i came to the show for its politics but stayed because i became so invested in not only their cause, but their personal awakenings and how complicated their lives became once they decided they needed and deserved MORE. i am looking forward to seeing how their lives evolve once their demands are on the table and above the radar in Season Two. Please give us more!!!
... View MoreMy wife and I watched all 10 episodes starting the day they became available on Amazon Prime, it took us about 5 days to complete the series. We had other watching to do!The first episode establishes the thrust of the show, a young Norah Ephron is hired to work for News of the Week magazine and when she is told she can only do research for the men writers, and she would get no chance to write herself, she quit.This gradually energizes the rest of the talented but stifled female staff of researchers, they want the opportunity to earn the better jobs, and the better salary that goes along with it. But the man in charge is an old-fashioned publisher and doesn't agree that women should get the chances.The girls eventually get advice from a lawyer who informs them that what the magazine is doing is illegal, works with them to file an EEOC complaint. Through all this there are relationship issues among the staff.What I like best is the reality of the work climate in the late 1960s and the early 1970s. It is the same time period I started my career and females really were held back. It was an issue that had to be overcome and eventually was. This show depicts that. The down side is all the build-up ends when the 10th episode ends, we have no clue what all the reactions were and what the resolution would be for the girls at News of the Week. Presumably there will be a season 2 that takes up where this one leaves off. My favorite is cute, almost 30 Genevieve Angelson as Patti Robinson who was the main driving force within the office. Anna Camp is good as Jane Hollander, bright and hard-working and at first not on-board until she is snubbed. Chris Diamantopoulos is good as Finn Woodhouse, the boss.
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