PositiveBookforumMuch of the book hovers in an uneasy territory between bigging up every teeny advance in how women appear on TV and anxiously logging the frustrations of those who make these shows ... It’s difficult to tell from Press’s book just how naughty or nice you have to be to get something on the air without too much debilitating compromise. There’s a breathlessness in the report that [Shonda] Rhimes and [Jill] Soloway have provided childcare for their staff that makes clear how rare that must be ... My real hope is that the slow power shift Press documents will eventually make possible a creative transformation that fully justifies her optimism.
