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The 46-year-old actress starred as Beth Boland in the series which aired on NBC for four seasons before it wascanceled last June.
Speaking to PEOPLE at a Good Eggs dinner event in Santa Monica, California, on Thursday evening, Hendricks said she felt that the network “failed massively,” when it came to “representing the kind of show that it was.” “It was quirky and weird and smart and they kind of made it just look like a sitcom,” she said.
NBC did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
After saluting the “really cool fans” who watched the series on Hulu and Netflix, Hendricks explained that NBC “told us we were going to get picked up and then two weeks later yanked it out from underneath us and took it away from us.”
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Hendricks, who is also widely known for her role as Joan onMad Men, continued, “So, we were kind of all like, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa.’ Because we loved it. We loved doing it, and [costars] Retta and Mae Whitman were like two… they still are two of my best friends and we love working together. So, every other day we send each other texts being like, ‘I miss you, I miss you, I miss you.’ But it was a little bit of a heartbreak, because we like doing it.”
When asked if she’d want to rejoin in the series if it was to be revived, Hendricks suggested she was satisfied with closing that chapter for good.
“What I wanted was for us to have one last season to tie it up,” said the star. “But I think that they exhausted their storylines. I think they started repeating themselves a little bit. And so I think it was time. LikeMad Men… We ended on a high note. I want to leave proud of it. I never want to have regrets and I feel so proud ofGood Girls. I think it was stellar from start to finish. It was done. It was good. Perfect.”
Hendricks previously opened up to thePEOPLE Every Daypodcast abouther role on the showand why she believed its overall success was due to its powerful female characters that resonate with audiences.
“No one’s a stereotype of the strong person or the weak person. We know that we are those people, all day long,” said Hendricks.
“I think that a woman can be so many different things and the more you show all those different sides to her, people respond to that as strength because it feels real,” said the actress.
source: people.com
