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- TV Land
- Feb 24, 2015
- TV Land
- Feb 24, 2015
Summary 40-year-old Liza (Sutton Foster) returns to the working world as single mother with the help of a makeover from her best friend Maggie (Debbie Mazar), she passes herself off as a 26-year old and lands a job as an assistant to marketing executive Diana (Miriam Shor) and becomes friends with 20-something Kelsey (Hillary Duff) in the comedy...
- TV Land
- Feb 24, 2015
- TV Land
- Feb 24, 2015
Summary 40-year-old Liza (Sutton Foster) returns to the working world as single mother with the help of a makeover from her best friend Maggie (Debbie Mazar), she passes herself off as a 26-year old and lands a job as an assistant to marketing executive Diana (Miriam Shor) and becomes friends with 20-something Kelsey (Hillary Duff) in the comedy...
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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95% Positive
19 Reviews
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5% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
75
95% Positive
19 Reviews
19 Reviews
5% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Younger is an entertaining and heartwarming series and one fans of Bechdel-busting television should seek out.
For those of us 40 and older, it’s a bit of a hoot watching Foster navigate these waters, from learning how to use Twitter to deciphering texts IRL (in real life) to explaining away those crow’s feet, among other things that aren’t mentionable in a family newspaper. But it’s the personal relationships--with the hunky Tortorella and with Duff--that hold the most interest here.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 76 User Ratings
7.7
83% Positive
63 Ratings
63 Ratings
3% Mixed
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14% Negative
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 76 User Ratings
7.7
83% Positive
63 Ratings
63 Ratings
3% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
14% Negative
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
I binged this show. I am not going to type a load of paragraphs about my feelings for this show. I will keep it short. The writing is excellent, the acting is tremendous, the actors are gorgeous, the cinematography and wardrobe are out of this world. Whilst watching this show, I escaped my reality and delved into a world of wonderful fantasy that is eerily reality; I laughed and I cried. One of the best shows I have watched in my lifetime. I liked that it was fast paced, edgy, and the script kept to reality, nothing far-fetched. Love it!!
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SEASON 1
Younger sells it through Foster’s agile charm and its refusal to make any of its characters into punching bags. (TV Land sent out the full season for review; I’ve seen five episodes.) Like its protagonist, the ideas behind Younger have been around the block a few times. But it doesn’t show its age at all.
The writing is sharp, funny, surprising and also very true to the characters Star has created. As funny as it is, it’s actually more mature than the writing on “Sex and the City.”
Foster makes for an energetic and engaging lead, never missing a beat; the rest of the cast is equally snappy-snippy, thanks to scripts and story lines that keep everyone prancing along like trained poodles.
Inevitably, there are stereotypical aspects on both sides of the age gap--from the flakiness of Kelsey’s contemporaries to Diana too often coming across as a bitter scold--but the series seldom pitches so far across those lines as to be unable to find its way back.
Younger is fine. But in a TV universe of ever more scripted series, it also feels unessential, which is exactly what original programming today cannot afford to be.
Why are people determined to make Sutton Foster a star? She is fine as an actress, but I don't understand trying to build this show around her singular appeal. In addition, this is a tough concept to swallow. She is a nice looking woman, but it's hard to imagine anyone thinking she could pass for 26. This feels like a real stretch for a show concept, and the first two episodes reinforced that idea.
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SEASON 1
I'm surprised that a show so offensive, stilted and, frankly, lame doesn't have a single professional critic who noticed. The straw man of the pariah status and uncoolness of women in their forties is hard enough to swallow, but what's worse is that in the service of this straw man, half of the conversations on the show address age. Who does that? It's an exhausting watch. Critics should have more integrity than this.
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SEASON 1
Getting past the ridiculous premise, expect at some point in every ad lines about genitalia or sex. Writers-watch Frasier & ELR to learn comic writing.
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SEASON 1
Despicably awful show that somehow creates an idea that millennials are a deciding force, when most of them are struggling with college debt and mediocre careers. The whole "OMG I'm 40, what's a twitter" premise is so demeaning to any age, it's pathetic, and Sutton Foster is so cardboard that no one would notice her or her age. I don't know how things like this get passed any production team.
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