I know my response is six years late but I just saw this series on Netflix.
I'm 66 years old so I am fully aware of how career women have been treated since I first went to work as a professional programmer / graphic designer (yes, TWO careers). i was 12 and it was 1960.
The character, Tennison, that Helen Mirren played is not worthy of respect except for the fact that she 'always gets the perp', eventually. The writers made her a rather predictable character slash slut. Maybe in the first 1-4 series, but after that she was a
GROWNUP WOMAN. Typically, in MY experience, women over 45 who were sluts in their younger years are NO LONGER playing that game. They've been there done that and not so likely to pick MARRIED men to *beep* Why not? BECAUSE WE ARE ADULTS NOW and have far more empathy than we may have had in our 20s-30s.
By the time Tennison is portrayed in Series 6, when she's 54 years old, it's bullcrap that she'd have slept with a younger coworker, someone who REPORTS to HER.
Writers, you do a MAJOR DISSERVICE FOR WOMEN IN THE WORK WORLD, PARTICULARLY THOSE WHO WEAR BLUE (COPS i MEAN, SINCE THAT may be an american term). Women are acknowledged by even the American Medical Association (a notorious male chauvinist organization) that WE ARE SMARTER THAN MEN. By 'women' I mean GROWNUP women, over 45 or thereabouts.
I'm ashamed how writers portray women and men in character studies, in particular. But then again most tv writers are immature, emotionally unbalanced people with not a lot of brain power, so I guess their 2-dimensional portrayals of characters is to be expected. SAD. REALLY.
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