INDEPENDENT LENS: “WONDER WOMEN! THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICAN SUPERHEROINES”
PBS, 10:00 p.m. ET
This new documentary is fairly lightweight, like a comic book – but, like a comic, there’s plenty of subtext and symbolism to be found if you look for it. Interview subjects discussing the role of Wonder Woman, and other female heroines, through pop-culture history include Lynda Carter, who played the Amazon on TV in the 1970s, and Gloria Steinem, who selected the comic-version Wonder Woman as the cover of the first issue of Ms. magazine that same decade. Trace the lineage, from the 1940s Wonder Woman to the more modern Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Xena: Warrior Princess. For a full review, see Eric Gould’s Cold Light Reader. Check local listings.