Has the TV series actually aged and represented women better than the Cameron Diaz/Drew Barrymore/Lucy Liu movies

http://hillplace.blogspot.com/2011/09/reassessing-charlies-angels-35-years.html

But, if you can look past it, this was one of the few successful TV shows or movies in the 1970s where the lead characters were almost exclusively female, in a decade where male “buddy” stories dominated the big and small screens. Throughout the different cast permutations, the Angels were always depicted as mature, sophisticated, women. They were never whining, squealing, cutesy, “girls.” (Despite Charlie’s gently condescending reference to them as “three little girls” or “three beautiful girls” in the opening credits, depending on which season you are watching.) The “Charlie’s Angels” movies produced by Drew Barrymore were much more troubling because the big-screen Angels were more often the victim of sexual innuendos, trashy costuming, humiliating situations, boring boyfriends, and adolescent giddiness than their TV counterparts ever were. The Barrymore Angels were "empowered" in so far as they were willingly exploiting and degrading themselves. Ironically, the TV Angels, produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg, were comparatively much more dignified.

Unlike most movies and shows centering on women, the series always depicted the Angels as competent, cooperative colleagues. It avoided the cliche of portraying female colleagues as being competitive with each other. The focus for the TV Angels was almost never on their personal lives, but on their work.