How Aaron Sorkin Is Faithful to Lucille Ball’s Story but Fails Her Legacy
Being the Ricardos Shows Us Why It’s Hard to Get Iconic Women Right
7 min readMar 11, 2022
Long before Shonda Rhimes dominated ABC’s prime time lineup and Oprah Winfrey dreamed of OWN, there was Lucille Ball.
Ball broke barriers for women in front of and behind the camera.