TV shows about and/or for women

Looking for TVTV shows about and/or for women

Posted December 5, 2020 by Radical_beans [speaking as mod] in Television

There have been a few threads on this topic, so we've put together a central thread.

Make suggestions here for TV shows or documentaries that centre women: women as main characters, women's stories/experiences, women's history docs etc. Or just shows that don't have men as the central focal point. If you can note the genre too that would also help.

Here's a compiled list from the existing threads so far with the show, genre and where to find it. If some of these are wrong let us know! It will be updated periodically:

Broad City [Comedy]: Comedy Central; Hulu; NowTV
Call the Midwife [Drama; History]: BBC; Netflix
Can You Hear Me? [Comedy; Drama]: Netflix
Derry Girls [Comedy]: Channel 4 (UK); Netflix
End of the F_ing World [Adventure; Comedy; Crime]: Channel 4 (UK); Netflix
Fleabag [Comedy; Drama]: BBC; Amazon Prime
Gentleman Jack [Drama; History]: BBC; HBO
Glow [Comedy; Drama]: Netflix
Good Girls [Comedy; Crime; Drama]: Netflix; Hulu; NBC
Grace & Frankie [Comedy]: Netflix
I am Not Okay with This [Comedy; Sci-Fi]: Netflix
Insecure [Comedy; Romance]: HBO
Killing Eve [Action; Adventure; Drama]: BBC; Hulu
Most Beautiful Things / Girls from Ipanema [Drama; Romance]: Netflix
The Queen's Gambit [Drama]: Netflix
Trinkets [Comedy; Crime; Drama]: Netflix
Tuca & Bertie [Animation; Comedy]: Netflix
Undone [Animation; Drama; Fantasy]: Amazon Prime Video
Unorthodox [Drama; based on true story]: Netflix

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DaughtersOfLilith

December 5, 2020

(Edited December 6, 2020)

I'll add Jane the Virgin. Comedy. Netflix. Soapy, but tongue-in-cheek about it. I've never seen a show with such a great, complex mother-daughter-grandmother relationship running through every season. There are complicated female friendships, where conflicts get resolved by talking and crying on the bathroom floor, which I find very relatable. There are complex story lines about immigration, a character gets cancer and goes through chemo (which I've never seen portrayed in TV that way), and a number of other things I don't hear talked about.

I hate that all the women have to look perfectly done up all the time in that Hollywood way, and there's some other problems with it from a feminist lens. But all in all it's a really sweet show with complex female characters who have complex relationship with each other, and I love to see that.

Edit: apparently my word of the day is "complex".

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December 5, 2020

Yesss this show is so good!!! It's on my rewatch list.

10/10 recommend, it'll surprise you!

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Posted December 5, 2020 by Radical_beans

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