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The first episode of rob the supermarket where Annie Spraised for her forthright portray- season 2 airs Sunday, March 3, on works, but when they end up with al of fed up, angry women in “Good NBC. far more money than they anticipat- Girls.” Bans came up with the idea The titular “good girls” are three ed, they find themselves in the mid- for the NBC dramedy during the earnest working moms who are at dle of a money-laundering opera- 2016 U.S. election, and she wanted the ends of their ropes, struggling tion run by local gangsters. to capture the pervasive sense of in- with financial strain and a host of Though the raucous intrigue of justice that many people seemed to personal troubles. Beth Boland the plot is enough to suck you into a be feeling. The producer and writer, (Christina Hendricks, “Mad Men”) TV binge fest, “Good Girls” is more whose previous credits include has mentally checked out of her than just a heist comedy. The charac- “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Scandal” and marriage to cheating husband Dean ters make conscious decisions to “The Family,” recalls in an interview (Matthew Lillard, “Scream,” 1996). break away from their old lives, and with The Lily that she told her moth- Dean, meanwhile, has led their fami- they let everyone in their paths er she “wanted to write something ly into debt that leaves them on the know that they will no longer be tak- that was fun and entertaining, but verge of losing their house. Beth’s en advantage of. When Annie’s boss also empowering, and speak to sister, Annie (Mae Whitman, “Par- figures out that she was one of the those women out there who feel like enthood”), is a single mom strug- robbers and attempts to blackmail they’ve been backed into a corner.” gling to make ends meet for her her into sexual favors, for instance, With three lead actresses who 11-year-old daughter, while being he ends up hogtied in the treehouse deliver both a tight-knit on-screen sued for custody by her ex. Their in Beth’s yard. When an entitled relationship and the steely determi- close friend, Ruby (Retta, “Parks and teenage boy injures himself at Ru- nation necessary for their characters, Recreation”), is a chronically mis- by’s work and tries to coerce a de- Bans has accomplished just that. An treated waitress desperate for the grading apology from her, she in- unapologetic comedy about three funds to treat her young daughter’s stead gives him a piece of her mind downtrodden mothers who take kidney disease. and promptly quits. These are three thoroughly ordi- their fates into their own hands, the At their wits’ end, the women de- Mae Whitman as seen in “Good Girls” show has been declared timely and cide that being law-abiding subur- nary women who, faced with mounting abuse, decide they would on set, because most of the time, ev- was last seen entering her house to lately, she has to shoot either Rio authentic by many critics. A year af- ban moms is not working out for rather join the criminal underbelly of eryone is tense from the stress of find that disgruntled crime boss, Rio himself, or Dean. their suburban world than remain their characters’ high-stakes predic- (Manny Montana, “Graceland”), “Good Girls” has consistently de- on its surface with the odds eternally aments. has beaten her husband. He gives livered fierce wit, bingeable intrigue stacked against them. In an inter- “Good Girls” has a sharp wit that Beth a gun and tells her that if she and righteous female fury. Don’t breathes life and authenticity into its view with Variety, Hendricks said wants to be the hardened criminal miss the premiere of season 2 when that it’s important to her that the characters: Annie cracks sarcastic it airs Sunday, March 3, on NBC. show resonates with the cultural comments as the women blunder that she’s been pretending to be mood surrounding the #MeToo their way through a plan to pay movement. “It’s not preachy,” she $500,000 back to a street gang, and noted, “it’s understanding and ac- Beth pours a dram of whiskey into a cepting, and still ... in complete sup- sippy cup. These are moments that port of how people are feeling right make their unrealistic circumstances now.” just a little bit relatable. The humor of the show walks the Bans says that the upcoming sea- line between being cynical when the son will pick up fluidly from where situation calls for it, but also making the first one left off, which is cause light of disastrous hijinx. 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