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Here we have another in the long line of 'female empowerment' movies so popular with fashion-minded Hollywood these days.

Now, I think it is quite appropriate and desirable to showcase realistic female capabilities. However, I think it is getting to the point of fantasy and revisionism when we insist that 'women can do anything that men can do, but better' and try to prove that with manipulation, exaggeration and simple fiction.

So we have an example here of ALL the top air force pilots being women. Of course they are, dear. Another comical example we have is the recently released series Special Ops: Lioness, with the female protagonist physically outperforming navy seals. Of course she can, dear.

PS. I am a (realistic, I think) middle-aged woman.

After watching utter rubbish passed of as TV series for some years now, it is so refreshing to see something as good as this.

I am not a wine buff (far from it) but this did not detract one bit from the appeal of the series.

Great writing, with a coherent, and sometimes even profound, storyline, superb direction and great acting. The most disappointing thing about the series was that it had to end.

Watched this a few days after we watched the series called Minx. Well, this is as good as that is bad!

Of particular appeal was the sensitive and realistic treatment of cultural differences between France and Japan.

Almost a perfect viewing experience.

This sort of rubbish is becoming very common in TV series these days. Grab a 'fashionable' idea (male privilege and female victimhood will do very well these days), get some mediocre writers and directors, throw in some known talent in the acting sphere and voila - a TV series.

Now there is one last element in the equation, which is particularly necessary if you have a suspicion that the series might be revealed to be a fraud - shock value! Now this can be excessive violence or swearing, or nudity. (Better if it is explicit male nudity because that still seems to have some shock value.) And this series goes for male nudity. It was called 'tasteful' by some critic or defender of the show. If exactly the same series was put to air with the same level of explicit female nudity I wonder how 'tasteful' it would be seen by our (now so very politically correct) Hollywood or professional critics.