I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about middle-aged women. At 54 I’ve been one of them for at least a decade. And we middle-aged women are on my mind because it feels like every television show that I’ve been enjoying, there we are. We can point to a lot of terrible things happening in the world, but to have our pick of brilliantly conceived and executed television featuring interesting women of a certain age to choose from is something to put in the Good News Bucket. (You don’t own a Good News Bucket? You need to get one. Mine is half full. That’s how I roll.)
It also feels a bit revolutionary. This is not television specifically made for middle-aged women to watch. No AI algorithm could come up with the subject matter for these shows.
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