December Talking Meme: The stories of Liza Winters and Abby Isaacs (Manhattan)

Among of its many virtues, Manhattan has this: enough female characters so that none of them has to bear the burden of being The Girl, i.e. the sole presentative of women in the narrative, whose actions and story are therefore read as somehow standing for the writers' opinions about all women, instead of simply the story of one particular woman. Liza Winters and Abby Isaacs are two of several, and thus each of their stories can be taken on its own value.

( Their stories are of course spoilery for the first season of MANHATTAN )