Mrs. America dramatises the 1970s fight over the Equal Rights Amendment from both sides of the barricade: the women campaigning to write equality into the US constitution, and Phyllis Schlafly, the conservative organiser who built a movement to stop them.
What is Mrs. America about?
The series follows the decade-long campaign to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment and the countermovement that rose up against it. At its centre is Phyllis Schlafly, a conservative activist whom her supporters nicknamed 'the sweetheart of the silent majority', who turns a kitchen-table newsletter into a national grassroots force. Opposite her stand the leading figures of the women's liberation movement, and each episode shifts its focus to a different player while the ratification count ticks forward state by state. Rather than treating the outcome as settled history, the show frames the amendment as a live contest of persuasion, organising and personal sacrifice, with both camps convinced they are the ones protecting American women.
About the cast
Cate Blanchett heads an unusually deep ensemble that also includes Rose Byrne, Uzo Aduba, Margo Martindale, Tracey Ullman, Elizabeth Banks, Sarah Paulson and John Slattery. Because the structure hands several of these performers an episode built largely around them, the series plays less like a single star vehicle than a relay of character studies, with the political argument carried by faces rather than speeches.
Context & significance
Mrs. America is a 2020 biographical drama produced between the United States and the United Kingdom, directed in rotation by Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, Amma Asante and Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre. Episodes run around fifty minutes. The series arrived while the Equal Rights Amendment had returned to public debate, and it drew wide praise for treating its conservative subject with curiosity rather than caricature. Within the K-Time catalogue it sits alongside other historical dramas about political movements and ranks among the more strongly reviewed limited series on the service.
Watching Mrs. America on Ktime
Mrs. America streams on K-Time with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so you can hear the dialogue in Farsi or follow the original English performances with subtitles. This page is free to read; to watch the episodes, log in with a K-Time account. The whole interface is in Farsi and designed for Persian-speaking viewers living abroad.