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Posted by benny, Thu May-21-20 12:22 PM
tbh i had subzero interest in a Phyllis Schlafly (fuck her and her ilk forever) bioseries at first, but seeing Boden/Fleck involved and Cate Blanchett always bringing the goods make me give it a shot. And actually it's so much more engaging than I expected. The show spends time with a lot of different people (Gloria Steinem, Shirley Chisholm...), so it's not just about Schlafly. And it manages to show a range on the topics without bothsidesing equal rights. It gets quite bittersweet if not depressing when you start noticing the parallels of the anti-ERA movement with the bad-faith industrial complex that have buttressed the conservative world for the past 30-40 years. But things don't get preachy or overly grim, just clear-eyed.