And it's making my laugh my azz off. This is real life and real history sorry but women are just as amazing and outspoken as men.
5 Reviews
Incels are hating this
barthamilton16 April 2020
Cate Blanchett absolutely rules this one
dfloro17 April 2020
Almost every single second of this first episode is Cate Blanchett, and if you didn't already know it (and if you didn't, atsa matta wid-U?), she's a fantastic actress. Schlafly is clearly going to be portrayed in this as a multi-layered, morally complex and ethically conflicted character, and who's to say she wasn't? I suspect it took all this time to get this fictionalized account made because, had it been attempted while she was alive, as a trained attorney, she would have fought it in the courts in perpetuity.
Good performance by Blanchett
dcmackdon16 April 2020
This is the show I was waiting on, and this episode. Phyllis Schlafly was a woman with a strong voice and refuse to back down and they did get that right. From what I understand, she was grass roots campaigner and she was personable with her supporters, they do show that. I was little confused about how they portrayed her marriage, one minute her husband is respecting her, even smirking at a guy who made a quip at her and his look was funny and the next she's tired and he doesn't respect that. Good performance but as usual I have to be skeptical of the writing since Schlafly is not alive to give her full accounts and knowing her daughter has spoken out against this show. Nevertheless, I can't wait to see the rest with Blanchett.
Phyllis
Prismark1012 July 2020
Mrs America wants to examine the grass roots movements of conservative America led by its women.
In this this case the reactionary activist Phyllis Schlafly (Cate Blanchett.)
After failing in a bid to run for congress. Phyllis seizes an opportunity. The battleground is the the Equal Rights Amendment bill. It has bipartisan support but the prospect of women being drafted to the army, men getting alimony sets her against it.
The first episode sees Phyllis going head on against the feminist movement.
The first episode has a balancing act. After all Phyllis Schlafly has a wealthy and privileged lifestyle where her husband can provide for everyone. She is not in a situation where both the man and the woman need to work just to pay the bills.
It is trying to show Phyllis to be appealing to the audience even if they disagree with her views. She was essentially anti everything, the place for a woman was in the home, be a mother and a model wife.
However Phyllis has her own political ambitions, it means coaxing her husband. Dealing with lecherous men such as Phil Crane and those who look down on her, the political meeting where she is asked to take notes.
The first episode was colourful with a funky soundtrack. Although set in the early 1970's it opens with a song that was released in 1976 and featured in Saturday Night Fever. It got me confused.
Blanchett got the balancing act right. She makes Phyllis appealing and persuasive to the political grouping that chime with her views.
In this this case the reactionary activist Phyllis Schlafly (Cate Blanchett.)
After failing in a bid to run for congress. Phyllis seizes an opportunity. The battleground is the the Equal Rights Amendment bill. It has bipartisan support but the prospect of women being drafted to the army, men getting alimony sets her against it.
The first episode sees Phyllis going head on against the feminist movement.
The first episode has a balancing act. After all Phyllis Schlafly has a wealthy and privileged lifestyle where her husband can provide for everyone. She is not in a situation where both the man and the woman need to work just to pay the bills.
It is trying to show Phyllis to be appealing to the audience even if they disagree with her views. She was essentially anti everything, the place for a woman was in the home, be a mother and a model wife.
However Phyllis has her own political ambitions, it means coaxing her husband. Dealing with lecherous men such as Phil Crane and those who look down on her, the political meeting where she is asked to take notes.
The first episode was colourful with a funky soundtrack. Although set in the early 1970's it opens with a song that was released in 1976 and featured in Saturday Night Fever. It got me confused.
Blanchett got the balancing act right. She makes Phyllis appealing and persuasive to the political grouping that chime with her views.
Fun and great performances
cruise0118 April 2020
3.5 out of 5 stars.
Cate Blanchetts performance is great. She delivers. Playing a character starting a women's movement in 1970s. Decent political story that is trying to be fun. Great performances. Fun direction. But decent script.
Cate Blanchetts performance is great. She delivers. Playing a character starting a women's movement in 1970s. Decent political story that is trying to be fun. Great performances. Fun direction. But decent script.
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