Like Homeland, it’s closest cousin in the world of prestige dramas, new drama The Honorable Woman places a powerful-but-unstable woman in the midst of one of the great geopolitical crises of our time. While Homeland’s Carrie Mathison tries to preempt terrorist plots in the aftermath of 9/11, the woman at the center of this latest drama, Nessa Stein (played by Maggie Gyllenhaal), has the power to mitigate the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. For all their critical thinking skills, both protagonists are volatile and psychologically distressed, leaving viewers worried they might fall apart at any moment. With so few representations of powerful women on television, it is a curious coincidence that those that do make an appearance are so often on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
Posted on: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 00:22:51 +0000
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