If there is one thing Mrs. America is hell bent on showing its audience, it's that feminism is complex, messy, and extremely divisive among women — too discordant to even result in much progress.
It's a slippery hill to die on, but the new FX on Hulu series aims to chronicle the modern history of feminism in the U.S. with all its jagged imperfections.
And it often does so, even more boldly, through the eyes of the late Phyllis Schlafly (Cate Blanchett), the conservative, middle-aged white homemaker/author/hopeful politician hailing from Illinois.
It is, as the kids say, a choice. Created by Mad Men's Dahvi Waller, Mrs. America follows Schlafly's journey beginning from the early 1970s after losing her second campaign through 1980, when her
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