It's a show about three couples of a certain age navigating life, love, and everything in between. It focuses on their relationships with their partners, but just as much on their friendships with each other. Not a family by blood, but a family by choice-by friendship.
It's a fun and funny show. Nothing too deep, just something to enjoy. At least, that's what I thought at first. But it still got me thinking.
When you hit the lower end of your 30s, you imagine that life after a certain age will be dull, settled, over somehow. But this show reminds us that life keeps its complexity. You'll still hesitate to speak your truth. You'll still crave change, or comfort. There's still drama, still sex, still parties. Life doesn't stop. It just shifts. It's pretty much the same as now, maybe with more money, and hopefully, more wisdom.
It's a show about living your life, maybe in the same patient, familiar way you always have, even if that comes with its own problems. Or maybe it's about changing everything, blowing it all up and starting fresh-and that also has its problems. There's no simple way to do it. No perfect path. But the show embraces that messiness.
Tina, Steve, and Coleman are carrying the show. Their acting is light-hearted, funny, sometimes dramatic, but always feels realistic and deeply human.
Like I said, it's a fun show. I laughed out loud. More than once. And when I get older, I want to be like Danny. Maybe he's not even a great role model, but he's fun, sarcastic (he has some fantastic lines!), and he has a great fashion sense.
If you're looking for something to binge-this might just be your show.
