This decade may have sucked in so many ways, but at least it’s been great for TV. And so many of the best shows of the past decade have been about women, made by women, and popular with both women and men.
A quick poll of the Mamamia office came up with a definitive list of the 20 best TV shows of the 2010s for women. Here they are.
20. Workin’ Moms
Catherine Reitman drew on her own experiences to create this Canadian sitcom about four friends who are all struggling with being working mothers. There’s sex, drugs and lots of breastmilk.
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Dead to Me, a Netflix series that everyone watched then promptly forgot, is higher than Girls? That show was a cultural phenomenon. And Greys Anatomy started in 06, it wasn’t even popular in this decade. But Mad Men isn’t here? Or GoT?
What have most of these series got to do with "defining the decade for women"? Just because the main characters are women in most of them, doesn't make it a series that defines anything for our gender. Some, like The Handmaid's Tale, are appropriate for the title this list - but most aren't.