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Browse - Most popular shows featuring: midlife crisisx
Happyish
On his birthday, Thom Payne gets the gift of insignificance and also a new boss. He suspects his ED pills are interfering with his anti-depressants, leaving him with neither happiness nor... happiness. In a culture that reveres youth - a culture he helped create - Thom needs to figure out what his purpose is now that he's halfway to death and nobody cares what he thinks. Because in a world where any Kardashian is trending up, perhaps the wise among us would heartily embrace trending down.
Gary and His Demons
Gary & His Demons is an animated comedy that centers around 45-year-old Gary. He's tired. His hairline is receding, he wears horn-rimmed glasses and he's just chased his final demon before his long-overdue retirement. But Gary soon discovers that his boss has again failed to find his replacement and Gary will be forced to keep fighting demons for eternity. But nothing can change Gary's fate. He's the chosen one, whether he likes it or not.
Maron
Marc Maron stars as a fictionalized version of himself in this new sitcom.
The Change
Linda, a 50-year-old working class married mother of two, is having an existential crisis. Who is she? What is she? Is this it? Convinced she's got early onset dementia after forgetting what a shoe is called, Linda's GP informs her it is, in fact, the menopause. Feeling invigorated and empowered by this information, Linda decides to claw back some of the time she's spent doing 'invisible work' over the years (not all 3.5 million minutes, just 131,500 of them) to do something for herself... for a change.
Significant Mother
In this series, budding Portland restaurateur Nate's world is turned upside down when he comes back from a business trip to find his lothario best friend and roommate, Jimmy, is now dating his recently separated mother, Lydia. To make matters worse, Nate's previously disinterested dad, Harrison is now determined to win Lydia back and isn't afraid to use Nate to get what he wants. Stuck between his family feud and his best friend's first serious relationship, Nate's "new normal" forever changes his relationships with his parents, and severely handicaps his own dating life.
Mad Dogs
A group of four fortysomething friends travel to Majorca for another mate's retirement party and are met with betrayal and murder.
Us
Douglas Petersen is blindsided when his wife Connie tells him that she's not sure she wants to be married to him anymore. Agreeing to still go on their planned family grand tour of Europe, Douglas vows to win back the love of his wife and repair his troubled relationship with their son Albie. Adapted by David Nicholls from his hugely popular novel of the same name.
The Best Man: The Final Chapters
Based on the eponymous film franchise, the series will catch up with Harper, Robyn, Jordan, Lance, Quentin, Shelby, Candace, and Murch as relationships evolve and past grievances resurface in the unpredictable stages of midlife crisis meets midlife renaissance.
Sally4Ever
Sally4Ever follows the life of Sally, a soon-to-be promoted marketer who, for 10 years, has lived a comfortable and dull suburban life with David. But on the night he asks her to marry him, Sally has a crisis and embarks on a wild affair with Emma, a seductive, charismatic, boho actress, singer, musician, poet and author.
Before Sally knows it, Emma has moved in, rearranged the furniture and her life. Is this really what Sally wants, or has she made a mistake?
Last Hero Inuyashiki
Inuyashiki Ichirou is down on his luck. While only 58 years old, his geriatric looks often have him written off as a pathetic old man by the world around him and he's constantly ignored and disrespected by his family despite all that he's done to support them. On top of everything else, his doctor has revealed that he has cancer and it appears that he has little time left in this world. But just when it seems things couldn't get any worse, a blinding light in the night sky strikes the earth where Ichirou stands. He later wakes up to find himself unscathed, but he soon starts to notice that there's something... different about himself. However, it turns out that these strange, new changes are just what Ichirou needs to take a new lease on life and now it seems like there's nothing to stop him from being a hero worthy of the respect that he never had before... unless, that is, there was someone else out there with these same changes...
On the Verge (2021)
In a pre-Covid Los Angeles, four friends in the midst of a midlife crisis try to juggle their family life and their professional life. For Justine, French chef in a trendy restaurant, Anne, an overwhelmed stylist, Ella, with her three children from three different fathers, and Yasmin, who is trying to get out of 12-year-old maternity leave, the daily is a number one. 'balancing act most often rock'n'roll!
Cucumber
8 part series that follows 46 year old Henry and his boyfriend on a disastrous date night. Russell T Davies, famous for his work on Channel 4's 'Queer as Folk' will write the series alongside accompanying E4 show 'Banana' and online series 'Tofu'.
Bliss (2018)
Bliss follows the complicated double life of Andrew, a successful travel writer who, through extenuating circumstances, finds himself living between two sets of wives and children whose existences are unknown to each other.
Andrew, in a constant state of moral crisis, must find a way to balance his time and energies between his wife Kim and teenage daughter, while travelling back and forth across Bristol to his other family, wife Denise and their teenage son.
As Andrew's two worlds become ever harder to contain, so does his sanity. And he finds himself going to increasingly drastic lengths to protect the two families he loves.
Stuck
Dan and Carla are at a cross-roads. Dan has been recently made redundant, while Carla is wondering whether this is all she can expect from life. Add their age gap to the mix, and the re-emergence onto the scene of Carla's ex-girlfriend Maya, and it's no wonder that they're feeling stuck.
Lust
The trio have all been friends since school. When they find out that one of them is conducting a government survey dubiously dubbed 'Make Sweden Sexy Again', they are intrigued. Is good sex - or the lack thereof - impacting the health of Swedish women over 40?
MILF of Norway
MILF of Norway follows Lene, a woman in the middle of midlife crisis who unexpectedly becomes an internet porn star.
Girlfriends (2018)
For life-long friends Linda, Sue and Gail, the years have flown by, yet their lives seem more complicated than ever. When Linda's husband Micky vanishes from a cruise ship on their wedding anniversary Linda suddenly finds herself on her own for the first time in nearly 30 years. Widowed and out of her depth she turns to her old friends Gail and Sue for support, who each have their own problems to face...
Hold the Sunset
For Edith, life is pretty good. She's been a widow for some years now, but her children live locally and drop by regularly, and she enjoys daily visits from Phil, an old boyfriend who now lives across the road.
Phil dreams of marrying Edith, and the pair of them upping sticks and moving abroad to the sunshine. But after months of turning him down, on the happy day Edith finally says "yes", there's a knock on the door - and there on the step, with a large suitcase, is her 50 year old son Roger. He announces that he's left his wife, his kids and his good job at the bank, and come home in an attempt to find his lost happiness again. And in a blink, to Edith's dismay and Phil's fury, all dreams are on hold.
Sensitive Skin
This bittersweet half-hour series is the story of Davina, a woman of a certain age and her long-time husband Al attempting to change their lives. The couple have sold their comfortable family home and moved downtown to an ultra-modern condo, in a conscious effort to keep relevant, and begin again. Unfortunately, that's exactly what happens.
Mother and Son (2023)
When his widowed mum, Maggie, sets fire to the kitchen, recently single Arthur Gbeme moves back into the family home. As he tells it, he has "put his life on hold" to care for his mum, but the truth is, there isn't much to put on hold. A former nurse, Maggie used to be a firebrand - a renegade. But since the death of her husband, Maggie has been... a little off.
Don't Forget the Driver
A dark comedy set in sunny seaside Bognor Regis. It explores what it means to live, work and parent at a point when the entire UK population is having to come to terms with the changing colour of their passports.
Coach driver and single dad Peter Green leads a life of ordinary routine; clip on ties, limp packed lunches, vehicle checks, roundtrip coach journeys ferrying church groups to donkey sanctuaries and Japanese tourists to Canterbury Cathedral.
Green is at full stretch just about coping with his disaffected daughter Kayla (bored to a state of almost total inertia in a place that has nothing for her) and Audrey, his mum, whose life is rapidly descending into confusion and fear. The discovery of a dead body on the docile Bognor shoreline and an unsettling meeting with a new arrival in town throws Green's life into chaos - a lost soul in need of assistance, who he could help. But will he...Can he?
Age Before Beauty
Married to Wesley for 25 years, Bel has spent the last 18 years as a homemaker and mum to their twins, but having just waved them off to university, now has a void in her life. Enter Teddy , brother-in-law and long-time best friend, begging her to step in and rescue the family business - a down-at-heel beauty salon in Manchester's Northern Quarter.
Like Bel, it could do with a bit of a face-lift. And possibly a clear-out, since it employs her high-maintenance family: mother Ivy-Rae, sisters Leanne, Tina and Heidi.
Into the mix comes beautiful 20-something Personal Trainer Lorelei who seems to have caught Wes's eye... can Bel reconcile the demands of her business, her warring family and the problems in her marriage?
Strangers with Candy
This show follows Jerri Blank, a 46-year-old woman. After 32 years of living on the streets, drug dealing, prostitution, and doing time in prison, decides to pick up her life exactly where she left off, at Freshman year in High School. She also decides to move back home with her father, along with her stepmother and stepbrother.
She is back at Flatpoint High School, somewhat trying to do her best, but only ends up in crazy situations. Two of the most recognized teachers are Chuck Noblet, Jerri's bitter History teacher, who also has a secret relationship with Geoffrey Jellineck, Jerri's kinder Art teacher and somewhat adviser. There's also the overly stern Principal, Onyx Blackman, who sometimes also seems to have it in for Jerri. Jerri must also face problems with the more popular kids, whom she is desperate to fit in with. But she does have a small circle of friends, though she sometimes mock them, especially her Filipino friend Orlando. Though her problems as a street whore are over, new problems are just beginning.
Semi-Detached
Each episode of Semi-Detached plays out in real time and follows a perennial loser called Stuart as his life goes down the pan in a suburban cul-de-sac. All Stuart wants is a quiet life as a wedding DJ but his family seems to have other ideas. On top of barely coping with a (much younger) partner April and a new born baby, Stuart also has to look out for his jailbird brother Charlie and his promiscuous, drug-taking Dad Willie. Then there's the ex-wife Kate, who lives across the cul-de-sac with their teenage daughter Madonna and Kate's husband Ted who thinks he's better than Stuart because he sells fish to sushi restaurants.
Doctor Cha
Twenty years after leaving her medical career, a housewife returns as a first-year resident - struggling to find her footing in a job full of surprises.
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