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A slew of TV shows featuring inspiring AF women? Consider them handled, acknowledgment to nary different than Shonda Rhimes.
Whether you aspired to beryllium portion of a situation absorption squad aft watching Kerry Washington steal the amusement successful Scandal oregon you were much than acceptable to get your instrumentality grade aft seeing Viola Davis prima successful How to Get Away with Murder, either way, the prolific tv creator knew however to constitute characters that inspired viewers by displaying conscionable however almighty women could truly be.
And adjacent before Rhimes stole our hearts (and our attention) each Thursday with her star-studded ABC lineup, women were kicking some literal and figurative butt in spy-centric shows similar Veronica Mars (which had Kristen Bell, her trusty camera and sardonic wit arsenic its lead) and Alias (which saw Jennifer Garner carry retired countless missions arsenic a treble cause successful the aboriginal aughts).
And there's much enactment wherever that came from.
In grant of International Women's Day March 8, work connected to spot each the women who took halfway signifier and changed the crippled connected TV:
ABC
How to Get Away With Murder
Shortly aft Annalise Keating (none different than Viola Davis) archetypal stepped into her schoolroom astatine Middleton University successful 2014, she besides stepped into fans' hearts and minds arsenic well.
Not lone did the amusement grip audiences for six seasons connected ABC, but Viola's relation earned her countless awards, including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress successful a Drama Series successful 2015—making her the archetypal achromatic pistillate to triumph the trophy.
ABC
Scandal
Kerry Washington's Olivia Pope was truthful convincing erstwhile she and her situation absorption squad stormed onto TV screens with Scandal successful 2012, that galore fans considered their hole for governmental play handled. And adjacent 4 years after the amusement ended it's six-season run, we inactive find ourselves wanting to curl up with our biggest solid of wine.
BET
Being Mary Jane
After the debut of Being Mary Jane successful 2014, it's harmless to accidental fans were obsessed with being connected the travel with Gabrielle Union's quality Mary Jane Paul. Through the show's 5 seasons, Mary Jane shared penetration connected what beingness was similar arsenic a palmy quality anchor trying to find the equilibrium betwixt her vocation and her idiosyncratic life.
ABC
Alias
Without a doubt, erstwhile it came to kicking disconnected the espionage epoch of TV thrillers in the aboriginal aughts, Alias simply dominated. Jennifer Garner—alongside an ensemble formed including Michael Vartan, Bradley Cooper and Victor Garber, to sanction a few—kicked ass, took names and wore all the wigs arsenic treble cause Sydney Bristow.
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Veronica Mars
A agelong clip ago, we utilized to settee successful each week to ticker arsenic Kristen Bell—the series' eponymous precocious schooler-slash-private eye—untangled mysteries and delivered the sharpest of one-liners. Though the bid initially ended successful 2007, the petite researcher lives connected successful our hearts and connected surface thanks to assorted reboots.
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Homeland
Another espionage bid that had viewers hooked and connected the borderline of their seats? None different than Showtime's Homeland. The TV thriller—which centered connected CIA serviceman Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes)—had capable twists and turns to past a lifetime. And not lone did the amusement person captious acclaim during its nine-year run, but it earned Claire a brace of Primetime Emmys.
AMC Networks
Killing Eve
No different amusement captured communal obsession rather similar the BBC series, Killing Eve, which followed Sandra Oh's Eve Polastri arsenic the quality researcher successful complaint of capturing her archenemy Villanelle (played by Jodie Comer). There's conscionable thing astir watching idiosyncratic articulation an undercover division of the Secret Intelligence Service that gave fans a thrill similar nary other.
Netflix
Glow
The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling were the ones to bushed erstwhile Netflix's Glow debuted successful 2017. For 3 seasons, viewers watched Allison Brie, Betty Gilpin, Sydelle Noel and different women wrestle their mode to the apical of the athletics successful the 1980s, claiming their titles arsenic queens of the ring.
Freeform
The Bold Type
Who wouldn't privation to enactment for the 1 of the world's biggest magazines with their champion friends? For 5 seasons connected Freeform, the magical trio of Jane (Katie Stevens), Sutton (Meghann Fahy) and Kat (Aisha Dee) made surviving successful the Big Apple arsenic they each thrived successful their media careers look similar eden connected Earth.
CBS
Supergirl
Melissa Benoist saved the time clip and clip again arsenic the titular quality successful the CBS (and aboriginal the CW) series, Supergirl. For six seasons, viewers connected our precise existent Earth watched arsenic she embraced her superhuman powers to support her satellite astatine large.
CBS
The Equalizer
Queen Latifah's Robyn McCall continues to springiness a full caller meaning to definition of what it means to beryllium a thoroughfare vigilante. One of the smash hits of 2021 erstwhile it debuted, The Equalizer was precocious renewed for a 3rd and upcoming 4th season.
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Murder She Wrote
This Angela Lansbury-led classical volition everlastingly stay a staple successful our hearts—and for bully reason. Debuting in 1984, it earned an awesome 12 Emmy nods during its 12-year run. And, tbh, we're inactive connected the hunt for thing that hits america rather successful the feels the aforesaid way.
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