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Just started watching Nikita and Lost Girl. Both are a little B-grade but also have stuff you just don't see in tv normally. (nb these are my initial opinions, which may change later)

They have competent sensible slightly woobieish kickass female leads in their late twenties(*) who have been given their deadly abilities without their will(**) but refuse to be pushed around by the powerful forces that put them in that position. The secondary lead is a spunky Ukranian girl from the wrong side of the tracks(***).
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Also, I am playing Echo Bazaar. It's a silly-but-witty browser text based RPG like Kingdom of Loathing, but with a Lovecraftian steampunky setting plus a commitment to diversity. Lots of fun. I am playing a person of indeterminate gender who has written 400 stanzas about mushrooms, seduced an artist and his model, and is currently trying to find a devil that has absconded from Hell. There is apparently a social aspect but I haven't figured that out yet.

(*) Interestingly, the actresses are in their thirties.
(**) There are male superpowered characters who angst about their powers and wish for a Normal Life, but it does seem to happen more consistently to women :/
(***) Admitedly, in one case it's the actress and the other it's the character, but as the descendant of working class Ukrainian immigrants to North America I'm counting them both.