![]() “Getting put in a wood chipper,” Ruby replies. Glass half-full? The latest crisis subsides, the women keep earning. In the scene they filmed this early February morning, Annie, a cashier in the middle of a custody battle, and Ruby, a former waitress with a gravely ill daughter, were huddled over a laptop, drinking coffee out of matching mugs while they searched homicide reports and debated best-case and worst-case scenarios. On a soundstage here, where the show films its interiors, you can wander through the women’s houses, appreciating the ordinariness of the rooms - the collectible pottery, the bulk-bought animal crackers, the moisturizer on the night table - and the outrageousness of the situation. That first felony triggers others, and soon each woman has to keep the lid on a life of crime while cutting chicken patties into star shapes and getting the children to school. 26 on NBC, they’re tugging on ski masks and holding up a Fine & Frugal. But a few minutes into the series, which debuts Feb. Hendricks’s Beth, Retta’s Ruby and Mae Whitman’s Annie are three mothers overwhelmed with financial worries and domestic crises. Hendricks spoke while hurrying to a table read for an episode of her new series, “Good Girls,” a comedy-drama about three women with an unusual approach to self-determination. ![]() “I’m not saying go rob a grocery store to get your power back,” she said. ![]() ATLANTA - Christina Hendricks wanted to be clear.
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