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Medium, Battlestar Galactica, and Bones since they have both strong female and male characters
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Battlestar is fairly revolutionary in its depiction of gender roles and the dynamic between the sexes. Medium is also refreshing, and i appreciate how loving and refreshing their marriage is for television, but I do find the husband to be a little feminized and unbelievably understanding, and he is written in a way that caters to how women wish men would behave, and not how men actually behave. The show is still very much about Alison, and hubby is there simply to support her. But yes, it is a nice, fairly honest, and refreshing depiction of a modern loving marriage. Bones is an example of a subcategory of procedural cop drama where you have a brainy, attractive every woman who runs the show, and you have a sexy, macho, but not to sharp tough jock sidekick to help her out and provide the brawn to her brains. Gosh could that be a female fantasy???
