TV Shows

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…

Madeline “Matty” Matlock (Kathy Bates, 76) comes out of retirement to join a prestigious law firm, deploying her apparent frailty and dotty-grandmother presentation as a…

The battle over the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s, centering on Phyllis Schlafly (Cate Blanchett) and the feminist leaders who opposed her — Gloria…

Frances McDormand is magnificent as Olive Kitteridge — a prickly, brilliant, difficult older woman whose life unfolds in a small Maine town. An unflinching portrait…

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…

DCI Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) is a brilliant detective who fights institutional sexism, alcoholism, and her own relentless ambition across seven instalments spanning 15 years.…

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…

Behind-the-scenes drama about the creation of a Broadway musical based on the life of Marilyn Monroe. Anjelica Huston plays Eileen Rand, a formidable producer in…

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…

Mary Ann Singleton (Laura Linney, 54) returns to San Francisco and to 28 Barbary Lane — and to Anna Madrigal (Olympia Dukakis, 87), the beloved…

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…

Gillian Anderson plays Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson — a composed, sexually confident, professionally ruthless woman in her 40s hunting a serial killer. A rare portrayal…

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…

When a Madoff-style financial scandal wipes out her savings and destroys her reputation overnight, attorney Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski) is forced to rebuild her career…

After her husband, a state’s attorney, is imprisoned following a sex and corruption scandal, Alicia Florrick returns to work as a litigator at a Chicago…

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…

The beloved baking competition that features contestants of all ages — including many women in their 50s, 60s, and beyond who become fan favorites. A…

Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel brought to life with harrowing immediacy. A warning about the fragility of women’s rights and bodily autonomy — deeply relevant in…

Based on Nancy Mitford’s beloved novel, two best friends navigate love, war, and society between the wars. Lily James and Emily Beecham are dazzling as…

Eight senior celebrities in their 60s and 70s travel to India and other locations to explore what retirement abroad might look like, navigating culture shock,…