“Gossip Middle-Aged Woman” The privileged premenopausal women of Manhattan’s Upper East Side learn that Serena van der Woodsen is back in town the way they learn all the important news in their lives: from Gossip Bitch’s anonymous posts on the Nextdoor app. Rounding out the group is Jessa, a devil-may-care bohemian whose confidence masks her fear that her friends will find out that she bought a breezy linen blouse at Eileen Fisher. student and the only person in her class eligible for an A.A.R.P. Marnie, divorced and living in the same apartment that she rented in her twenties, craves someone to fill the emptiness-as long as it isn’t her cousin Shoshanna, an N.Y.U. Hannah, with her already full plate, wants a boyfriend who stays out of her way. “Middle-Aged Women” An exhausted writer and her three best friends, all of them in their fifties, try to make sense of what’s left of life after three fucking decades in New York. “Do you already have a movie deal, or is it Netflix?” She presses a button that she installed under her desk after the last six dudes showed up, and a trap door opens under the screenwriter’s feet, dropping him into a pit of vipers. “What, another male writer sensationalizing violent crimes against women?” she says. Listening to his pitch, Lisbeth yawns, the wasp tattoo on her neck flexing loosely. ![]() ![]() “The Middle-Aged Woman with the Dragon Tattoo” A Swedish screenwriter, claiming to be investigating the case of a missing woman, seeks help from a fifty-year-old computer hacker, Lisbeth Salander. After the conductor ignores her complaints about being subjected to a daily millennial lovefest, she makes a sign that says “ IT WON’T LAST, ASSHOLES,” and holds it up every time she passes the lovebirds. “The Middle-Aged Woman on the Train” Commuter Rachel Watson catches daily glimpses of a seemingly perfect couple from her train window. ![]() Mass-media companies, adept at anticipating trends-or at least catching up to them and cashing in-have been busy preparing an exciting range of original TV programs, books, and movies that offer new perspectives on what it means to be “a woman of a certain age.” Here’s some of what we have to look forward to this fall: As a new wave of women step into their mid-centuries, it’s a striking moment of exposure for women over 50, who are taking commanding roles across American culture.- Wall Street Journal.
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