These days, empowered women are far from a rarity on television, thanks to shows like Desperate Housewives, Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, and, currently, NBC’s Good Girls. Which is not to take anything away from those that pioneered the way before, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Ally McBeal, Murphy Brown, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer among them. But there definitely seems to have been a line drawn in the sand beginning in 2004 with the debut of Desperate Housewives, which has continued to this day, becoming even more pronounced over the years. And what many of those shows have in common is writer/producer and creator of Good Girls, Jenna Bans. “So many writers sort of write what they know,” Jenna offers in an exclusive interview, “and I think, for me, obviously I’m a woman, but it’s also been a happy accident that I’ve been on these shows...
- 4/20/2018
- by Ed Gross
- Life and Style
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