Exoticalot
People are voting emotionally.
Tymon Sutton
The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.
Quiet Muffin
This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
Marva
It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
tmcaleer-00129
It was difficult to believe no one picked up and continued to run this great series highlighting what WAS when there are so many absolutely mindless inane series that drone on and mentally strip mine our American brains.Given additional time, the writers might have also had opportunity to magnified many OTHER changes that occurred a mere few years prior to 1969. During THOSE times there were so many inequities which in today's light might be considered third world oppression of half the population.This series had me reflecting back to a few things from that era that immediately come to light ...mandatory high school curriculum: all girls were required to take home economics, sewing, office procedures and typing classes with the assumption we would never go on to college even though we were pursuing college prep classes.women required permission from their husband to apply/obtain a credit card or desiring a separate bank account.working women were unable to obtain a loan without their husband's permission or, if single, it necessitated securing a co-signer. If a co-signer was secured, the interest rates women paid were nearly double that of their male counterpart.to obtain birth control, women were required to be married AND have their husband's permission.women lost their job if it was discovered they were pregnant, working women hid their pregnancies with girdles until they began to "show".all men were in management with "his girl" sitting outside his office.advances/passes, touching/grabbing were never reported due to fear of job loss and labeling as a trouble maker.outspoken women were commonly and publicly criticized, jeered and labeled when speaking out against the inequity or if they expressed any personal thought or self-authority.Bizarre right? .... well, this was really not all that long ago ...
joerichards
This is one of the best series I have ever seen. The stories it covers, the dominant of which being that of feminism, are as important today as the time of the story itself. The casting and performances are fantastic. It's perfectly executed and just a beauty to watch.The lead female roles offer a range of characters which allow for some beautiful performances. It is also refreshing to see the balance of male and female partial nudity, rather than nudity being on the part of the female only.The irony of an all-male board within a media company canceling a show about male dominance in the media industry. This is one of those shows whose importance should be all that we need to renew it.Well done to all those involved in the creation of this series, keep it up.
janeholtzgibbs
I 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!!!
TxMike
My 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.