‘The Janes’ is a look into the past—but its mind is on the future

First conceived in the wake of Brett Kavanaugh’s controversial confirmation to the Supreme Court in 2018 and set to debut on HBO just weeks—or perhaps a matter of days—before that same court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, The Janes couldn’t be more timely (and it was already timely when it was one of …