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Christina Hendricks, Retta and Mae Whitman on what it means to play 'Good Girls'

LOS ANGELES - In the thick of the increasingly frenetic haze of the 2016 presidential campaign, writer-producer Jenna Bans landed on an idea for a TV series. She had been absorbed by every development in the news cycle, and she says one thing stood out to her: the treatment of women.

"Maybe this is naive, but I remember calling my mom, who is a lawyer in Minnesota, and having this conversation where I was like, 'I just can't believe all of this sexism I'm seeing is so overt,'" Bans recalls. She was referencing the now-infamous "Access Hollywood" tape from 2005, in which Donald Trump was heard making lewd comments

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