The Good Fight Is Quietly the Most Feminist Show on Television
With its frank, point-blank discussions about everything from race to maternity, the CBS All Access spinoff of The Good Wife leaves no stone unturned.
For ambitious women, it’s an historically good time to get pregnant. Maternity benefits are only getting more generous, and companies tout increasingly “family-friendly” policies. But it’s still pretty crummy. Nothing hurts a woman’s earning power more than having a baby, and pregnancy discrimination isn’t going away. Earlier this month, new moms filed suits relating to the latter against Netflix Inc. and mega law firm Jones Day.
Not long ago a smart young lawyer might opt out rather than deal with the inflexible demands of the partner track. That decision, in fact, was the basis for the plot of CBS’s long-running legal drama The Good Wife. Its streaming-only spinoff, The Good Fight, offers an alternative.