If largely undeveloped, primary conceits.Ĭreated by former Jane by Design and Ghost Whisperer producer Emily Fox, Hindsight opens in 2015 with 43-year-old Becca Brady ( Laura Ramsay) on the eve of her second wedding. Is more than circumstantial: both are fairly straight-ahead genre series ( Drop Dead Diva, light legal drama, and Hindsight, soap opera) with ambitious, It turned out that the overlap of Hindsight with Diva Up to its final episodes, but I can still honestly say that my ironing always got done. I am still shaking my head at the painful twists and turns the show took leading Diva fit that bill perfectly, though it admittedly shifted from a genuine guilty pleasure toĪ embarrassed ambivalence for its last, increasingly improbable, two seasons. Premiered in January, and ended its 10-episode season at the end of March, but I confess I only tuned in recently, intrigued by its time-travel premiseĪnd (I should admit) looking for a light one-hour series to fill the "show to watch while I fold my laundry" gap still left open since Lifetime's Drop Dead Diva ended its 6-year run last summer. Year, but if you haven't watched them yet, Younger is the one to catch up on before its new season begins early in 2016. Both shows have already finished their short first seasons and both were renewed for next Lens of some moments of surprisingly pointed social commentary. ![]() The first is essentiallyĪn escapist prime time soap with a fantasy flourish, and the second a comedy/drama that delivers laughs and poignant moments of self-discovery, through the Both series tells stories of 40-something women facing up to theĬhoices they've made, and who – through varying circumstances – suddenly find themselves living lives of women in their mid-20s. ![]() Today, I'm writing about two midlife showsįrom across the gender divide, VH1's Hindsight and TV Land's Younger. Sure, Thom is played is played by the 49-year-old Steve Coogan, but it was enough to give this Gen-Xer pause. It began (for me) with Showtime's Happyish, whichĮstablished quickly, with a bittersweet birthday party around his kitchen table, that its depressive protagonist Thom Payne was celebrating 44 exhausting But 2015 seems to be the season of the midlife reversal. Is always there to eagerly remind me) but aside from a rapidly greying beard and a still growing list of chronic aches and pains, I have only rarely found ![]() I know how old I am (and if I forget, Facebook Brian Kerwin and Laura Ramsay in Hindsight, on VH1.Īpparently I'm due for a midlife crisis, or at least that's what television is telling me – loudly.
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