Mrs. America

The entire narrative is built on identity politics. Every episode focuses heavily on women's liberation, abortion rights, and LGBTQ+ issues. It uses a modern intersectional lens to critique how different identity groups were treated, emphasizing the unique struggles of queer women and women of color within political movements.

Traditional Western institutions like marriage, the nuclear family, and conservative political groups are heavily critiqued. Traditional housewives are often shown as naive or deeply unhappy. The show frames conservative family values as restrictive and paints traditional men as patronizing, controlling, or dismissive.

The show makes major changes to real-life figures for ideological purposes. Phyllis Schlafly is depicted as highly hypocritical and secretly miserable under the patriarchal system she defends, which her real family strongly disputed. The show also invents a fictional conservative character, Alice, who undergoes a progressive awakening to show the errors of conservative views.

There was significant backlash from conservative viewers, traditionalists, and Phyllis Schlafly's surviving family. They complained that the series was a biased piece of feminist propaganda that painted conservative women as hypocrites, distorted history to favor the left, and forced modern woke ideology onto historical events.

The show's key creative team has a very strong history of promoting feminist and progressive themes. This includes creator Dahvi Waller, who has an 82 score, and multiple writers and directors with high scores who are known for their advocacy of diversity, intersectionality, and female-centered stories.