Aquick tally of the coolest series on TV right now, includes some pretty amazing female characters; Glenn Close's Gloria Allred-on-steroids lawyer Patty Hewes on FX's Damages; Holly Hunter's self-destructive detective Grace Hanadarko on TNT's Saving Grace; Mary McCormack's relationship-phobic witness protection marshal Mary Shannon on USA's In Plain Sight; Edie Falco's substance abuse huffing emergency room nurse Jackie Payton on Showtime's Nurse Jackie and Toni Collette's multiple personality-having suburban mom, Tara Gregson on Showtime's United States of Tara.
And most of them have one thing in common: They turn the concept of a typical female character on its head.
This is a thought which came while I was powering through preview DVDs of In Plain Sight, Nurse Jackie and United States of Tara. Showtime was nice enough to send critics a complete collection of each show's second season, though the episodes themselves only began to air last Monday, and USA gave out this week's debut episode of McCormack's show.
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