TV Shows

A teenager with a sex therapist mother creates an informal sex therapy clinic. Gillian Anderson’s character is a perfectly drawn portrait of a single, sexually active, professionally successful woman in her 50s. Funny, frank, and refreshingly sex-positive about midlife desire.

Two amateur metal detectorists search the fields of England for buried treasure. A gentle, deeply felt comedy about friendship, disappointment, hope, and finding meaning in small pleasures. A quiet masterpiece about what matters in midlife and beyond.

A multi-generational Latinx family drama featuring three generations of women — grandmother, mother, and daughter — navigating love, identity, faith, and ambition. A warm, witty celebration of women who refuse to be diminished.

A brilliant but socially dysfunctional surgeon becomes a GP in a small Cornish village. Features multiple strong female characters including a sharp, capable headteacher love interest. Warm, witty, and a celebration of community and competence.

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 in midlife with chaos and courage — and eventually thriving.

Set on an NHS geriatric ward, this darkly funny and moving series explores aging, dying, and the staff who care for older women at the end of their lives. Compassionate, absurd, and quietly radical in its insistence on the full humanity of elderly patients.

A quirky comedy set in a rural English Women’s Institute, following a group of women of all ages — including many over 50 — navigating village life, relationships, menopause, and small-town politics with warmth and hilarity.

Ricky Gervais plays a man whose life is turned upside down when his wife dies from cancer. Despite being male-centered, the show features extraordinary portrayals of older women — including a widow in a nursing home and a wise therapist — who model grace, humor, and the possibility of joy after profound loss.

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 the unexpected bonds that form between women who need each other.

When their husbands announce they’re in love with each other, two very different women — uptight Grace (Jane Fonda) and free-spirited Frankie (Lily Tomlin) — are forced to reinvent themselves and become best friends. Seven seasons of wisdom, humor, and fierce celebration of older women’s full humanity including sexuality and business.

A Jewish housewife in 1950s New York discovers she has a talent for stand-up comedy after her husband leaves her and rebuilds her entire life. A joyful, visually spectacular story of a woman reinventing herself and refusing to be diminished.

Jean Smart plays Deborah Vance, a legendary but overlooked Las Vegas comedian forced to take on a young comedy writer. A razor-sharp examination of ageism in entertainment, the invisibility of older women, and the fury and humor of surviving in a youth-obsessed industry.

Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin navigate the indignities of getting old in Hollywood. A rare show that treats aging with both humor and dignity, addressing prostate cancer, death of spouses, and the persistence of desire and ambition in later life.

A grieving therapist breaks all the rules. Features Harrison Ford in a magnificent role as a therapist with Parkinson’s — a rare, compassionate portrayal of aging, vulnerability, and the wisdom that comes with it. Warm, funny, and genuinely moving.

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, funny, deeply human show about belonging, found family, and rediscovering yourself after loss.

An irreverent, darkly comic dramatization of Catherine the Great’s rise to power. Elle Fanning plays a woman who refuses to accept the diminished role assigned to her. A brilliant portrait of a woman seizing agency in a world designed to deny it.

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 mother. Honest, funny, and fiercely non-sentimental about the realities of midlife womanhood.