I think it's on Bravo.
I hate the show. It is very well done and acted.
But I was a young business woman in those days. The show accurately portrays how badly women were treated then whether they were workers, wives, or girlfriends. I found even 15 minutes of the show painful to watch.
Women have come a long way and we have a lot more work to do before we get true equality.
in this case, the fact that you hate it is a testament to how good it is!
i didn't experience those times myself, and even i cringe a lot. pretty incredible that it was such a relatively short time ago, the mindsets in the workplace were so archaic.
initially, i wondered if a period show like this could work. the issues addressed were the issues of yesteryear, after all. but what i thought would make the show predictable and irrelevant to today's viewers is exactly what makes it so compelling. sometimes we need to see the issues of another time under a microscope, storytelling usually deals only with the issues and struggles of today. but you learn a lot about our current circumstances, and in general, by seeing things that people dealt with in the past. and we might THINK we're past most of them, but occassionally, the things they address make you think twice...
i find the fact that so much was swept under the rug and simply NOT addressed makes for very interesting storytelling. the more questions, secrets and cultural resistance a character has, the more compelling his/her story. also, on the flipside, the fact that some things were categorically accepted, like the questionable treatment of women, creates a lot of friction, like im sure it did in reality. it's just that we have the luxury of seeing further into these characters, the image of 'everything is ok' is blown, we're not at arms length, a distance from which a facade can be easily kept up.
too bad we've only got 3 more episodes, then no more until next summer!
last episode was great though, lots of great revelations and turning points.
