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This post originally appeared on the Heroes & Heartbreakers<\/strong> Blog on March 7th. Click here<\/a> for the original post.<\/p>\n

Since then, season two ended March 23rd. Did I call it or what? Between Josh coming back and Charles' kiss, we have the perfect romantic conflict cued up for season 3 with “Team Josh” and “Team Charles.” I love this show, especially since it confronts the issue of romance between a younger man and an older woman, who is sexy, smart, and the anti-cougar…just like Jillian.<\/p>\n

One of the things my husband and I do together is find shows and binge-watch them\u2014On-Demand is our passport to a world of discovery. In early January, we stumbled across Sex in the City <\/em>creator Darren Star\u2019s new series,Younger<\/em><\/a>. I was a huge Sex in the City<\/em> fan, and convinced my husband to give it a try. The show features an older woman\/younger man romance with a significant age gap, a relationship set-up of particular interest to me. Why? Stay with me to find out.<\/p>\n

Though dubious, my husband agreed to watch the first episode. That\u2019s all it took. We were both hooked, binge-watching the entire first season in one night and gearing us up for Season Two.<\/p>\n

<\/a>\"Hillary<\/p>\n

Hillary Duff and Sutton Foster in TV Land's Younger.<\/em><\/p>\n

Coined a \u201cdramedy\u201d by Hillary Duff, who plays Kelsey Peters (friend and co-worker of main character Liza Miller),Younger<\/em> raises real problems in an often hilarious way. The storyline centers around Liza Miller, a divorced 40-year old New Jersey housewife, who poses as a 26-year-old in order to fight the ageism she finds in publishing. She\u2019s trying to reenter the workforce after staying home to raise her now college-aged daughter, Caitlyn. Lucky for Liza, she has a natural, fresh, young look which, paired with a creative makeover from her friend Maggie, allows her to pass as a millennial. No surprise, she\u2019s hired as an assistant to 40-something, elitist Diana Trout at Empirical Press. However, Liza soon makes fast friends with Kelsey, a 20-something on her way up, which makes the job bearable.<\/p>\n

But looking 26 and being 26, as Liza finds out, are two very different things. Liza not only has to pretend to be a millennial, she needs to understand how to be one. Between social media, personal grooming, hip vocabulary, and dating, she enters a new and vibrant world in an effort to support herself and her daughter.<\/p>\n

One night at a Brooklyn bar, Liza meets 26-year-old tattoo artist, Josh, who tries to pick her up, thinking she\u2019s a woman his age. The fact that he\u2019s mistaken her for someone younger is not only flattering; it\u2019s the impetus behind her journey.<\/p>\n

Josh is hot with a capital \u201cH.\u201d He\u2019s the right mix of sexy and adorable, but it takes some thought on Liza\u2019s part before she takes him up on his offer.<\/p>\n

The show, even though written as a comedy, quickly dredges up our age biases as it applies to romance and veers into the dreaded \u201ccougar\u201d territory. Liza\u2019s daughter is appalled when she spies Liza kissing Josh, and decides to go live with her father.<\/p>\n

A fourteen-year age difference between an older man and younger woman barely raises eyebrows, but done in reverse draws all kinds of criticism. In the \u201cTruffle Butter\u201d episode (Season 2, Number 5), Liza\u2019s 40-ish New Jersey friends\u2014a married couple\u2014discover via her daughter\u2019s Instagram account that mom is dating a much younger guy. So they show up at the Brooklyn bar where Josh\u2019s band is playing to check him out. Before the night is over, they invite Liza and <\/em>Josh to their New Jersey home for dinner. Though Josh is world-traveled, he\u2019s never been to New Jersey. But curious about Liza\u2019s life before Brooklyn, Josh says, sure, why not?<\/p>\n

READ THE REST HERE…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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