I finally figured out why I don't like Frankie as much as the other three women. She has no obstacles or problems to over come. She's done everything, can do it all and does whatever she wants. Even when the rapist in season three tried to smear her by outting her relationship with the black boxer there really was no lingering problems. 

Flo wants to be doctor but she still has to work. In one episode she tries to get her boss to switch her to nights but he won't. She spends it trying to figuring out what to do. She needs her job to live and pay for medical school but can't get the schedule to work. She ends up getting it when her boss is killed. But then she's working nights, classes in the day time and still helping out at Frankie and the rest. 

Mary wants to be a cop like her dad. But it's not allowed so she has to settle for being a morality officer. She keeps trying to prove herself in hopes they'll change their minds. She competes in the race as a man but that doesn't change anything. She is often ignored or her helping other detectives don't go anywhere. Season four she's finally getting accepted by a couple detectives but they turn out to be dirty. She knows if she turns them in that'll be the end of her career. She starts out nervous and not very confident. Over the seasons we see her grow in confidence.

Trudy of course is black. She wants to make things better for herself and for her family. She's willing to put up with a jerk insurance man if it means steady income and business. Frankie doesn't want anything to do with him because he's a jerk. Trudy points out that Frankie has the luxury to turn down any job she doesn't want to do and without any worry about having to pay rent or food. Trudy gets her big achievement buying a house for her and her family. She's had offered of working for civil rights Marcus Garvey but it means moving to New York away from her family and the life she built. Either choice means has an upside and a downside. Same when she decides to leave Drake to work for the insurance company. She loves being a private detective but it's a job that can get her want she wants. But it turns out their breaking the law. 

Frankie has zero problems. She's being in the army, a spy, can shoot a gun, ride a motorcycle, she's had an affair with a married man, is a boxer, dated her boxer trainer who's black, she's dated a race car driver, etc. All with zero problems, zero conflicts and zero consequences. All which is pretty unrealistic but more importantly nothing to root for her. I spent four seasons rooting for Mary to make it as a cop, Flo as a doctor and Trudy to get everything she wants. Mary and Trudy both at the end of season four ran into something big that ruins their chances for it.  They could ignore it and get want they want or not and lose their chances at making their dreams come true.

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