This is perhaps one of the most intelligent series I've ever seen. I wasn't sold on Mrs. America right away. I remember driving around LA seeing the billboards with a towering effervescent Blanchett as Phyllis Schlafly, wondering why the fuck would they glorify such a heinous traitor. Naturally when you cast a Hollywood A-list actor to play the lead character (who happens to be an absolute piece of trash human) and name the series Mrs. America...well you can't possibly glorify Schlafly more. The first few episodes are extremely Schlafly centric, to a disgusting degree. By some miracle, I stuck through it and man, oh man, am I so glad I did. This is curated art and the producers are mad geniuses. What is the point of creating a feminist series targeting a feminist audience? What if we created a feminist series in disguise as a conservative anti-feminist (feminist) "heroine"? A series that subtly educates. That doesn't scream in your face. A series that will draw in the modern day Schlafly followers...the conservative women who see the posters, who see the trailers, who believe this is a televised depiction of their own "kind." And that then turns on its own head. Mrs. America exposes the hypocrisy buried in these anti-feminist women. It reveals what is so obvious to the naked eye: Schlafly is, at her very core, a feminist. Contradictory, confused, and blindingly stubborn, she fights against women's freedom/rights while aggressively adapting the very freedoms she fights against into her own life. 
Sarah Paulson's character is the heart of this series. Her growth and achievement of clarity on the situation is refreshing and necessary. But it is not heavy-handed. Many women will empathize with her journey and I believe the hope of the series is to have them, even for just a moment, ask themselves, as Alice does too: I wanted to ask why we're opposing all of the feminist resolutions. We're not anti-employment, or education, or minority women. I'm not saying that we shouldn't fight for what we believe in. But shouldn't we try to find consensus about something? If we want to be taken seriously, we have to show that we are not hard-hearted. That we are not stubborn just for the sake of it. That's not Christian. I came here to defend myself. But I have to ask, who exactly is attacking us? Brilliant, brilliant, across the board. Brava, ladies.