At the end of the 90s, postfeminist series like \u201eSex And The City\u201c were considered as feminist and progressive. Today it\u00b4s different. The HBO series \u201eGirls\u201c refers to Samantha & Co.; also four woman in New York (but in their mid twenties). The stories are also all about love, job and friendship in the Big Apple, but while \u201eSex And The City\u201c set a high standard for women (skinny, successful, exciting sex life), the protagonists in \u201eGirls\u201c are dealing with problems like unpaid interns, bad paid jobs, high rents, frustrating relationships with men, bad sex and weight problems. Which might appear boring and frustrating at the first glance, gives you fun and identificational potential at the second. To be a girl in a big city in your mid twenties isn\u00b4t always fun, and \u201eGirls\u201c puts that straight. Maybe \u201eGirls\u201c is capable to tell about womens life that good, because the creator is a woman. Lena Dunham (creator, director writer and main character of \u201eGirls\u201c), is in her late twenties and got a lot to tell.<\/p>\n
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Also the series \u201eOrange Is The New Black\u201c focuses on women. They are black, white, criminal, funny, old, big, dangerous, homo- and transsexual. The story tells about a white middle-class girl, who gets overtaken by the past and has to go to the jail. First she is shocked, but gradually gets to know the different characters and becomes friends with them. The series is about friendship and love, rivalty and tensions among women. Jenji Kohan, the Showrunner of \u201eOrange Is The New Black\u201c is a sreenwriter, producer and director and well known for the series \u201eWeeds\u201c, which she also created. In this series, the protagonist, a widow, starts dealing with weed, to assure her livelihood.<\/p>\n
In the series \u201eHow To Get Away With Murder\u201c, Viola Davis plays a shady professor and defense lawyer who gets involved into a murder case with her students and becomes a suspect herself. The creator: a powerful woman named Shonda Rimes, who created and produced \u201eGreys Anatomy\u201c and Private \u201ePractice\u201c with her own company \u201eShondaland\u201c. Since 2012 she is shooting the series \u201eScandal\u201c in which the main character is a woman called Olivia Pope, who is supposed to keep the White House away from scandals. Olivia Pope is a complex figure, a heroine and anti-heroine at the same time. And also the first female afro-american leading role (played by Kerry Washington) to be seen in one of the three biggest american TV stations.<\/p>\n
The series \u201eJessica Jones\u201c, based on the Marvel comic book and produced by streaming provider \u201eNetflix\u201c got created by screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg. Jessica Jones is a privace detective with supernatural forces buffeted by her alcohol addiction and depressions.<\/p>\n
\u201eUnReal\u201c is about a female tv producer, who is doing a reality show. Gradually she discovers the immoral methods of the show and starts to get a guilty conscience about it. Marti Nixon produced this series with Sarah Gertrude Shapiro, who processes her own experience as a producer. The list of female protagonists in the contemporary landscape of series goes on, the stories and characters appear more diverse and interesting than ever before, and the fact, that women are involved in the origination process, seems to play a major role.<\/p>\n
Sure there are a lot of man, creating interesting female characters, but it needs more women to tell their stories. Women are going to\u00a0 the movies as often as man do, but why are there only a few films telling their stories? The universe of american tv series is expanding and is getting bigger and more innovative. Hollywood could take a leaf out of this book…<\/p>\n
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