Contradict- and conflict-centered scenarios, complicated and contradictory Mrs. Americans, a snapshot of surging and whirling social context of that age in the US. Just as the caption said, they are not fighting for rights but power. The performances are wonderful, especially that of Cate Blanchett! That's a performance of a master level.
Just from the angle of the series itself, every single Mrs. America are respectful and worth depicting. Undoubtedly among them Phyllis Schlafly stands out. You can define her as an anti-feminist, for how great the lengths she was willing to go to defense the interest of her faction, or, rather, the interest of her own. You can also consider her as "another type of feminist", as one title in the newspaper stated in episode 8, for her extraordinary leadership along with outstanding intelligence, bravery and determination.
In fact, what the series want to convey to us is that after nearly two decades of fighting, none of these Mrs. Americans are real sense of beneficiaries-the feminists' elite group's dissolve has been hardly ever followed by campaigns in such a big scale as that in the 1970s, while some anti-ERAs had to face the facts that they used to consider as smoke bombs of their rivals and fiercely attack-just like one of thousands of monotonous dinners Phyllis had to prepare when she failed to be nominated by President Reagan. And above all, there are still many people in desperate need of equality, who, however, still have difficulty just making their voice heard.
Just from the angle of the series itself, every single Mrs. America are respectful and worth depicting. Undoubtedly among them Phyllis Schlafly stands out. You can define her as an anti-feminist, for how great the lengths she was willing to go to defense the interest of her faction, or, rather, the interest of her own. You can also consider her as "another type of feminist", as one title in the newspaper stated in episode 8, for her extraordinary leadership along with outstanding intelligence, bravery and determination.
In fact, what the series want to convey to us is that after nearly two decades of fighting, none of these Mrs. Americans are real sense of beneficiaries-the feminists' elite group's dissolve has been hardly ever followed by campaigns in such a big scale as that in the 1970s, while some anti-ERAs had to face the facts that they used to consider as smoke bombs of their rivals and fiercely attack-just like one of thousands of monotonous dinners Phyllis had to prepare when she failed to be nominated by President Reagan. And above all, there are still many people in desperate need of equality, who, however, still have difficulty just making their voice heard.