Women of the Week

It’s been a busy couple of weeks for the Nice Girls! As we catch up on our TV viewing, here are our latest Women of the Week picks from March so far…

Nominated by Christie: Carol Kane as Mindy Markowitz on Hunters (Amazon Prime)

I want to give a shoutout to Carol Kane from Hunters, which dropped as a series last month on Amazon Prime. If you only ever knew her as a comedienne (like me), Hunters shows a whole new side of her acting ability. She’s funny but she’s also tough, smart and her emotional range is amazing. One episode in particular, “The Jewish Question” had me nearly in tears. Her performance is tender and heartbreaking.

Nominated by Christie: Marina Sirtis as Deanna Troi in Star Trek: Picard (CBS All Access)

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Marina Sirtis in the Star Trek: Picard “Nepenthe” had such a nuanced performance. She slipped from tender mother figure to therapist so fast you barely realize it. You can tell she’s not playing the same Troi, that tragedy has touched her family and she was greatly affected by it. Again, another performance that nearly brought me to tears within the first 15 minutes of the episode, “Nepenthe”.

Nominated by Ange: Mandy Moore as Rebecca Pearson on This Is Us (NBC)

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This season of This Is Us has really been Moore’s season to shine. In many episodes, we often forgetting the fact that this is one 35-year-old actress playing a character in three different stages of her life and last week’s episode was no different. We saw Moore as a 40-something-old mother going on a family holiday to New York for the first time, then as a widow in her early 50s trying to take baby steps in moving forward with her life (not that she looks it, but when you do the maths of the characters and how old they’re supposed to be, it’s true!) to a woman in her 70s struggling to come to terms with her declining health. The scene where elder Rebecca finally makes it to The Met and gives her sons a poignant speech about how she always thought she’d have more time but now she’s running out of it, in particular was a beautiful yet bittersweet scene to watch.

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