Spring has arrived and with it a new bunch of possibilities, but with it comes a price, timing, clock is ticking and no way to go back so as they say, we are not getting younger, so we better start doing stuff and stop planning, more doing and less talking right? Because when you less realize you will be a middle age and even is not the end of the world things start changing, new perspectives will come and also new regrets or new challenges. But also a clash of generations will arise and it's been a while since last time we felt such a big gap between generations, from the millennials and the generation X. How things have changed in just a decade or two? How one or the other are dealing with the same issues from two very opposite and different points of view? Well if you really want to know and start some actions about it while having a fun time, this is for you: "YOUNGER" (2015-current), a refreshing comedy show, that has launched it's network TVLand to new horizons thanks to it's increasing popularity where generations have found a place to relate to while having a fun time and some romance but mostly exposing this clash of generation and age crisis that concerns basically to everybody that when young want to feel like grown ups and mature people and middle age ones just want to look and feel young again. Why can't we have it all?
The story follows Liza, a recently divorced woman, looking to take back her career now that her daughter is going to college and she finds herself in a life that is not what she had for the last two decades. Sadly, once she goes back looking for a new opportunity, she realizes that there are no more option for her after she's being just a mom and no her experience is past due for the current market, one that has suffer a make over from technology and a high demand from young people looking for the same opportunities with more updated information and tools to face the challenges and demands out there. So what's left for those that are not fresh from college or young anymore? Well before giving up she decided to use her looks in advantage. Once she can pass by a 26 year old woman, thanks to some make up and wardrobe update, her confidence gets a boost and finds an opportunity as an assistant or an editor in a well known publishing company. And things can't go better for her. Everyone loves her at the office. Her boss loves how things are done with this old fashion touch and a very professional style, like old school, she feels energized and confident as things are coming back and not feeling rusty anymore is definitely pushing her career forward very fast, which starts to make thing crumble as it's all based on a lie. She is not a young girl but a middle age woman, and she is not acting like her new best friend and co worker, she's more mature and she is not partying anymore.
But living a lie is no fun. But what can you do if have no other option. And basically you are proving you are worthy and capable but just because a number or a paper doesn't say so you have to settle? But usually one lie brings more lies and from the sudden it has become a snow ball coming down hill. And when is fun watching it from the outside definitely not so much when you are the one inside. As she soon realizes when all she wanted is to go back to work and re take a career that she left to become a housewife. But this new image and life is bringing the best out of her. And soon she will find love again. Not that she was looking for it but that's how it always happen, the less you look after it, it will come to you, but for her will come in form of a young artist, that owns a tattoo store and is trying to become a musician playing with his band at any gig possible to get some attention of the industry. And even this young folk is so different from her, that's exactly what makes it work for both. They complement each other at the same time that challenges them to try new things. For her, to embrace an adventurous and energized side that most grown ups forget to settle on a comfort zone and for him, to put his shit together and his feet on the ground but at the end they love each other and make a good couple, until truth may surface. Would you still love someone if there is something not real about that person that won't change anything but still was a lie? Or is it ok to lie if for a good reason or there's a good explanation about it?
So all the fun about this show is to join Liza and her friends in her struggle to find love, be successful, look glamorous and enjoy life while she embraces this new phase of her, mixing her past life with her roommate and best friend, a lesbian business woman of her age that is the only one that knows the truth and what's going on with her, and her new life at work, with her new friend and colleague, a young girl struggling with that hunger for success and lack of experience but full of knowledge about what to do and not knowing how to do it.Her boss, another woman of her age that actually likes her for her attitude not knowing that might be an age relation to that. And also she'getting some attention from her widowed boss,one of the owners of the company that sees her potential and also feels some sort of attraction to her but not b her looks but her maturity and shared commons. How many times we close doors because feeling too old for trying new things? And why we like to judge by a number, being labeled as a check list that must be follow by order according to the number on our ID? Who says we can't do otherwise? And why older people can't do stuff that young people like, but they can and are pushed to act like grown ups? How many things we can learn from each other if we get the chance to open our minds and change our attitudes towards age, if comes just to the number. It's all about how you represent that number, right?
Even the light ton of the show makes you feel like watching a funny teenage drama, the current issues that you see very subtle managed by all it's characters, makes it the perfect excuse to expose how these so called millennial generation faces hings like relationships in an era where a smartphone is more value than a friend or were communication is based in emoji's and things come as easy as they go, these young folks don't know how to deal with stress and commitment as the past generations did and turning the table we can appreciate how close minded was society regarding race, gender, social status when now it all seem and are treated the same opening the market to globalization and new ways for business, and social behavior has evolved the same way any sci fiction movie we grew up with did. So no matter what destiny has awaiting for Liza and her new gang, we can't but relate to any of them and keep rooting to make it through lies when lives are expose through social media in a way that there's few room for secrets but at the end everything is a big fake stage that we created to show the world the best of us and the one we want to become, and at the end that's what youth give us, a full stack of possibilities that we need to take action on instead of just contemplate and become in a new, fresh, reloaded version of us even the number keeps going up.
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