Where are TV’s antiheroines?

The New York Times

Sure, there are antiheroines like Olivia Pop, Carrie Mathison and Patty Hewes, but “the two groups are separate and unequal,” says Mike Hale. “Troubled female protagonists are more likely to be defined by two things: their spousal and mothering skills and, closely related, their levels of guilt and fear,” he says. “They spend a lot of time fretting and apologizing. In truth, the women are seldom truly anti. The makers of television are still, for the most part (the occasional Claire Underwood or Cersei Lannister aside), unwilling to go all the way — to create a female character who freely practices evil and is, at least in dramatic terms, celebrated for it.”