Middlehood

We don't get enough family comedy-dramas centered on middle-aged women. Yet we're often the heart and soul of everything that happens. MIDDLEHOOD is a great series about how you reinvent yourself in middle age, and how your family is the backdrop for that process. Plus it's hilariously funny: immigrant parents, entitled kids, old traumas replaying themselves - and secrets everywhere. It's amazing how all those roads lead us back home. It's like a mix of Modern Family and Better Things, I happen to know it's going to be shown at an event with "Adolescence," as an example of how you can show life emerging in middle age with humor and grace. Welcome aboard, Generation Jones and GenX - this is the show for you!

This show fills the void of intelligent, family centered drama. MIDDLEHOOD is a series about a true American family, with background cultures, secrets, and desires serving as interesting and important plot points. Not since Thirtysomething has there been such an honest look into family through the lens of a specific generation. MIDDLEHOOD focuses on the unique challenges of caring for children and parents, without losing self in the process.

Beautifully written and acted, director Michele Palermo has created a series that helps us understand and love our own families of origin as well as the big human experience.

Must see TV!