Dusty Somers

There’s a tension within “Suffs” that isn’t fully grappled with: How do you reconcile the gains of an inspiring, important feminist victory with the reality of its shortcomings? That the 19th Amendment was effectively only a victory for white women sits on the show’s margins, explicitly acknowledged in a halfhearted epilogue and perfunctorily dramatized with the inclusion of Black civil rights activists Ida B. Wells (Danyel Fulton) and Mary Church Terrell (Trisha Jeffrey).