David Farnor | On 08, Oct 2016

Amazon’s original series Good Girls Revolt arrives this month – and a new trailer gives us a taste of the Mad Men vibes that are in store.

The series, written and exec produced by Dana Culvo, charts the beginning of the women’s rights movement within a group of young women at the world’s hottest magazine (News of the Week) in 1969, who start asking to be treated fairly.

The show stars Genevieve Angelson (Backstrom) as Patti, Anna Camp (Pitch Perfect) as Jane, Erin Darke (We Need to Talk About Kevin) as Cindy, Chris Diamantopoulos (Silicon Valley) as Finn, Hunter Parrish (Weeds) as Doug, Jim Belushi (Show Me a Hero) as Wick McFadden, Joy Bryant (Parenthood) as Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Grace Gummer as Nora Ephron.

The drama is based on the cases of sexual discrimination captured in Lynn Povich’s book, The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women Of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses and Changed the Workplace. Povich was one of the female researches who, in 1970, accused the publication of sexual discrimination.

All episodes of the show will air on Amazon Prime Video on Friday 28th October.

 

Amazon’s Good Girls Revolt set for October premiere

8th August 2016

Amazon’s Good Girls Revolt set for October premiereAmazon’s Good Girls Revolt will premiere this October.

The series, written and exec produced by Dana Culvo, charts the beginning of the women’s rights movement within a group of young women at the world’s hottest magazine (News of the Week) in 1969, when they start asking to be treated fairly.

The show stars Genevieve Angelson (Backstrom) as Patti, Anna Camp (Pitch Perfect) as Jane, Erin Darke (We Need to Talk About Kevin) as Cindy, Chris Diamantopoulos (Silicon Valley) as Finn, Hunter Parrish (Weeds) as Doug, Jim Belushi (Show Me a Hero) as Wick McFadden, Joy Bryant (Parenthood) as Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Grace Gummer as Nora Ephron.

Lynda Obst, Jeff Okin and Darlene Hunt are exec producers alongside Calvo, with Don Kurt credited as a co-exec producer.

The drama is based on the cases of sexual discrimination captured in Lynn Povich’s book, The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women Of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses and Changed the Workplace. Povich was one of the female researches who, in 1970, accused the publication of sexual discrimination.

All episodes of the show will air on Amazon Prime Video on Friday 28th October, Amazon confirmed at a Television Critics Association panel. Angelson, who was present at the event, said of her role: “You can’t be a feminist before feminism,” adding that it relieave her of the burder of being a “a poster girl for this issue”.

“One of the biggest progressions is there is now a language for it,” added actress Erin Darke. “Now a woman can stand up and say, ‘I was sexually harassed by my boss.'”

“What was really fun for me about this first season is, it’s about this lawsuit, but it’s also about these women learning to become feminists,” she continued.

Chris Diamantopoulos said of adjusting to play his sexist character: “They didn’t know they were sexist. [He] was behaving in a way society condoned. By today’s standards it is highly offensive, but for this character, it was Tuesday.”

“Journalist veteran Dana Calvo gives the screenplay a convincing insight into the sexist media industry, which leaves you not only rooting for the characters on screen, but pondering how accurate some of it still could be today,” we wrote in our review of the show’s promising pilot. “The pilot’s script, though, can be too on-the-nose with its message, occasionally at the expense of character and nuance. But as the focus shifts commendably to solidarity and teamwork, there’s a lot to be said about a show that is smart, sexy and eager to treat “girls” as more than secretaries – especially one that features such a killer soundtrack and a scene openly discussing orgasms and vaginas. A classy period drama with a typing pool that isn’t afraid of men? Mad Women, it is. More please.”

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