TV Shows

Pamela Adlon writes, directs, and stars as Sam Fox — a single actress-mother raising three daughters while navigating Hollywood, aging, menopause, desire, and her eccentric…

Judi Dench leads an extraordinary ensemble of older British actresses — including Eileen Atkins, Imelda Staunton, and Julia McKenzie — in this BBC adaptation of…

The lives of an aristocratic family and their servants in early 20th century England. Features Maggie Smith’s Violet Crawley — an elderly woman of ferocious…

Police Sergeant Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire) is raising her teenage grandson in the Calder Valley while quietly carrying the weight of her daughter’s death —…

Celia (Anne Reid) and Alan (Derek Jacobi) are childhood sweethearts who reconnect in their 70s via Facebook after decades of separate lives. Their adult daughters…

Kate Winslet plays a middle-aged small-town detective in Pennsylvania investigating a murder while navigating family dysfunction, divorce, depression, and her own limitations. A meticulous, unglamorous…

A Cuban-American single mother veteran raises her family across three generations. Rita Moreno’s Lydia is a revelation — an older woman whose sexuality, vanity, and…

Amy Adams plays a reporter returning to her hometown to cover a murder, unraveling her own trauma and her mother’s toxic influence. A disturbing, beautifully…

Three women discover they are half-sisters when their fertility doctor used his own sperm. A darkly funny and moving drama about family, identity, betrayal, and…

Bridget Everett plays Sam, a woman in midlife returning to her small Kansas hometown, grieving her sister and trying to find her footing. A tender,…

A media dynasty implodes as aging patriarch Logan Roy refuses to relinquish power. Sarah Snook’s Siobhan is a brilliant, compromised woman navigating a world designed…

The sweeping dramatization of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign. Later seasons follow Elizabeth as an older woman dealing with family crisis, political pressure, and aging with…

A widow uproots her dysfunctional family to the Greek island of Corfu in the 1930s. A warm, funny portrait of a woman reinventing her life…

Julian Fellowes’s HBO period drama set in 1880s New York, where young Marian Brook moves in with her old-money aunts — the formidable Agnes van…

Skilled craftspeople restore cherished heirlooms brought in by members of the public. A deeply moving show about memory, family history, craftsmanship, and the emotional weight…

Three generations of women work as divorce lawyers in London — navigating their own marriages, family secrets, and competing loyalties. Over three acclaimed series, Abi…

A Los Angeles family is upended when their parent comes out as transgender in later life. A pioneering, imperfect show that opened conversation about gender…