Anti-heroines rule in misnomer ‘Good Girls’

seventies, arrived a year too early for the #MeToo wave; its unjust cancellation remains a sore point and a lesson that goodness does not always prevail, even when it’s touted in the name of the show. Circumstances sometimes ask us to be bad.

That’s the basic premise of NBC’s engaging, fed-up-with-sexism crime caper, (premiering Monday), which uses the word “good” in a bluntly equivocal sense, referring to three suburban women (why girls?) who possess the easily ascribed attributes of their natural habitats. In the first episode, they are typified and reduced to basic characteristics so their complications can be saved for later.

The first one, Beth Christina Hendricks), is a devoted wife and stay-at-home mom who has just learnt that her car dealer husband Dean (Matthew Lillard) has been cheating on her and frittering away their life savings.

The second is Beth’s sister, Annie

Mae Whitman), a cash-strapped single mom who provides a safe space for her tweenager, Sadie (Izzy Stannard), to explore gender fluidity. The third, Ruby

Retta), is a hard-working wife and mother facing the staggering healthcare costs of her daughter’s kidney disease.

The women, whose prior idea of a fun get-together was watching

hatch a scheme to rob the grocery store where Annie FALL FROM GRACE: Retta as Ruby Boland and Mae Whitman as Annie M