This year's field of Emmy-nominated actresses across both the comedy and drama series categories offers a refreshing twist on the old behind-every-great-man axiom: Alongside many of these great leading ladies is another great woman.
A growing crop of television's top-tier series are fueled by increasingly compelling, complicated, codependent and often clashing female relationships, whether playing them for laughs or mining them for dramatic gold.
On the comedic side, there's Jen (Christina Applegate) and Judy (Linda Cardellini), the mismatched, homicidally inclined, in-too-deep-together duo of Dead to Me; The Marvelous Mrs.
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