Good Girls Revolt
A new ’60s show
Leave it to Amazon, the internet superstore and savvy purveyor of the forward-thinking, Emmy-nabbing hit Transparent, to bring us a fresh and new look at a well-worn era. Set in the late ’60s, Good Girls chronicles a rebellion in the bullpen of a hit magazine where the cultural revolution and “women’s lib” movement had yet to penetrate. While the women at the center of this revolution are fictional—with the exception of a conspicuously placed Nora Ephron—the story of this shake-up is not: In 1970, the overlooked and unsung women at Newsweek filed a lawsuit.
Despite the fact that the show is set in the past, the ironic idea that the news is the last place to get with the times is painfully resonant today. And a woman’s struggle to have a personal and professional life is, unfortunately, evergreen. So, as you root for these heroines of the past (played incredibly by Genevieve Angelson, Anna Camp, Erin Drake and Grace Gummer), the real-life women of the present and future are never too far from your mind. Oh, and Good Girls has all of the sex, style and class of Mad Men (minus the network restrictions) to boot!
