A Complicated Nostalgia for Mary Tyler Moore
Briefly

To those of us who grew up in the wake of second-wave feminism, Mary Tyler Moore is a powerfully evocative figure.For this group, watching the HBO documentary Being Mary Tyler Moore may prove an emotional experience, conjuring nostalgia of two distinct types: the gentle sort involved in remembering a beloved star of the past, and a more painful nostalgia provoked by recalling a time when womanhood seemed to beckon with new, liberating possibilities, and feminism seemed on a steady path forward.
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