The Waves: Middle-Aged Women Are Getting Their Due on TV
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The Women in Their Fifties on TV
It has been really interesting watching the actressis now pretty aged from when we first saw them on our screen as these characters in the late nineties. It's interesting and weird, and i'm having a lot of complicated feelings about watching them as women in their fifties,. That was one of my first thoughts when i was watching the pilot, is, they look old. They have gray hair. They've had plastic surgery. And we just don't normally see that on t v. We don't see t v shows focused on 50 something women.
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