New Comedies Have Women in Mind: New at Reason

'American Housewife'“The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul, is: ‘What does a woman want?'” A sitcom, dude. Three of them, written by and oriented toward women, debut this week. But if you’re seeking some sort of gender epiphany, this may not be the right milieu: Sisterhood may be powerful, but it definitely isn’t commonality.

ABC’s American Housewife—the lone new broadcast show this week as the deluge of fall premieres slows to a trickle—is at once the most conventional and the funniest of the three. Television Glenn Garvin examines the comedy, along with the dreadful Divorce and somewhat melancholy Insecure.

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