Still Watching: Mrs. America - Eps. 1-3 with Cate Blanchett

Still Watching

Vanity Fair

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4.2 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Joanna Robinson and Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair are Still Watching: Mrs. America, the FX on Hulu miniseries about the debate over the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s. This week, Joanna and Richard introduce the Mrs. America, and cover the first three episodes of the series: “Phyllis,” “Gloria,” and “Shirley.” This podcast includes three special guest interviews: Uzo Aduba talks about portraying Shirley Chisholm at an important moment for women of color. Cate Blanchett discusses the complexities of portraying conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly. Dahvi Waller, writer of the first two episodes and creator of the show, discusses portraying the important moment in the second wave feminist movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Please join me, welcoming, Billis Clark Day.
0:04.0	They say that women are like teabags.
0:09.0	You don't know their strength until they get into hot water.
0:14.0	We need to talk about the threat of the women's liberation movement.
0:19.0	So let me be clear, I am not against women working outside the home. That's my choice.
0:25.0	What I am against is a small elitist group putting down homemakers.
0:31.0	They want to create a sex neutral society which will mean that women are
0:36.3	going to find themselves with two full-time job. Though you need to tell your
0:41.0	senators you want them to vote no on this equal rights amendment
0:46.1	so we can have a country that we are proud to leave our office.
0:51.1	Hello and welcome to the first episode of still watching Mrs America.
0:55.0	I'm Varnie Fair, senior writer Joanna Robinson.
0:58.0	And I'm Vanity Fair Chief Critic Richard Lawson.
1:00.0	If you were just joining us for the first time on a still watching podcast, what Richard and I like to do is pick a television show that we are currently watching closely obsessing over and sort of discuss it in minute detail in a week by week basis.
1:13.3	We have opted to overlap right now
1:16.8	our coverage of the HBO series Westworld
1:18.8	with the FX on Hulu series Mrs America just because we were so excited about Mrs America
1:26.0	and we couldn't wait we didn't want it to pass us by so here we are to talk about
1:32.1	this great new show.
1:34.0	Richard, what has peaked your interest the most
1:37.0	about this series, Mrs America?
1:40.2	Well, I mean, I think the cast primarily is really exciting.
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