The most sustainable change is happening behind the camera. Creators like Shonda Rhimes (who cast 63-year-old Viola Davis as the lead in How to Get Away with Murder ), Marta Kauffman ( Grace and Frankie ), and Michelle King ( The Good Fight ) are middle-aged or older women greenlighting their own stories. When old women control the purse strings and the writers’ room, the characters on screen become messier, funnier, more sexual, and more human.