{"id":1169,"date":"2026-07-26T13:14:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T13:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2026-07-26T13:14:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T13:14:39","slug":"the-small-screen-seduction-of-the-middle-aged-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=1169","title":{"rendered":"The small-screen seduction of the middle-aged woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<section><p>The starkest contrast between two summertime TV hits about women navigating midlife\u2019s challenges shows up in the way its leading ladies handle themselves in the kitchen. For Jennifer Garner\u2019s Hollis Shaw, the influencer around whom \u201cThe Five-Star Weekend\u201d revolves, the kitchen is her happy place and moneymaker. Within moments of the series\u2019 opening, she\u2019s sliding a pie in the oven and futzing over tiny tarts and meringue kisses to photograph for her Hungry with Hollis followers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=1165\">Trump\u2019s foreign policy enters its decadent, desperate end stage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hannah Waddingham\u2019s \u201cRide or Die\u201d assassin, Judith Burton, earns her pay quite differently: She kills the world\u2019s worst people. To her, the kitchen is an arsenal; in the premiere, she beats two men silly with a stock pot, a skillet and several dinner plates. Later, her best friend, Debbie Claybourne (Octavia Spencer), is shocked to discover that Judith stores a submachine gun in her oven.<\/p>\n<p>Both series meet a cultural moment many middle-aged women would call miraculous, and pharmaceutical and cosmetic corporations would describe as profitable. No generation of 40- and 50-somethings has been as extensively catered to as Gen Xers and geriatric Millennial ladies, for whom hormone replacement therapy, along with the secret ways of retinol, hyaluronic acid serum and collagen therapies, have been normalized.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Every TV show is selling us something: \u201cFive-Star Weekend\u201d markets the expectation of how women should age well and politely.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>There comes a point at which a woman realizes she\u2019s a lot closer in age to Diane Keaton in \u201cSomething\u2019s Gotta Give\u201d than Amanda Peet, and she\u2019s OK with that. Remember which one got to smash Keanu Reeves\u2019 doctor?<\/p>\n<p>In this economy, though, not many people can afford a house in the Hamptons or Nantucket. But we can vacation vicariously with Hollis and her friends Dru-Ann (Regina Hall), Brooke (D\u2019Arcy Carden), Tatum (Chlo\u00eb Sevigny) and Gigi (Gemma Chan) to the place Dru-Ann virally nicknames \u201cwhite person clam island.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1167\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/120d6ac1e06bfaa4c3eb268e06d6632e-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/120d6ac1e06bfaa4c3eb268e06d6632e-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/120d6ac1e06bfaa4c3eb268e06d6632e-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/120d6ac1e06bfaa4c3eb268e06d6632e-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/120d6ac1e06bfaa4c3eb268e06d6632e-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/120d6ac1e06bfaa4c3eb268e06d6632e.jpg 1692w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><span>(Greg Gayne\/Peacock)<\/span> Regina Hall as Dru-Ann, Jennifer Garner as Hollis, D\u2019Arcy Carden as Brooke, Chlo\u00eb Sevigny as Tatum in \u201cThe Five-Star Weekend\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe Five-Star Weekend,\u201d based on Elin Hilderbrand\u2019s novel, is currently topping Peacock\u2019s list of most popular series because of its breezy familiarity; we\u2019ve spent time with these women in past summers, dating all the way back to \u201cBig Little Lies.\u201d You should know the formula by now. They have enviable wealth and careers, except for one who\u2019s relatively less well-off than the rest. A tragedy or a mystery that brings everyone to a seaside locale; here, the sudden death of Hollis\u2019 husband sends her sailing off to her family home on Nantucket, where all the interiors are as creamy and dreamy as a Nancy Meyers film. And there must be romance, represented in Hollis\u2019 conveniently single high school sweetheart, played by the perennially foxy Timothy Olyphant.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody\u2019s hiding something from themselves and their host, who has planned all their fun with a pathological degree of anal retentiveness. There is a spa trip and fancy dinner at a restaurant and behind it all, lurking silently, a cancer scare.<\/p>\n<p>If the \u201cFive-Star\u201d crew were to meet \u201cRide or Die\u201d duo Debbie and Judith at a pub, they\u2019d have war stories to swap. Debbie is a politician\u2019s wife who sidelined her career aspirations to support his ambition to be Prime Minister. She gets him within spitting distance of Downing Street just in time for her husband to dump her.<\/p>\n<p>You think that\u2019s bad? How about this: Hours before that happens, Judith\u2019s younger handler Sam (Calam Lynch) invites her to retire over lunch, suggesting that her recent 50th birthday might have made her a little psychologically unstable. \u201cMy mum turned 50 last year,\u201d he shares, \u201cand she went absolutely insane!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The funniest part of that conversation is when Sam labels Judith a WOACA, a Woman of a Certain Age, pronouncing it as if he were Fozzie Bear punctuating a joke in an old-timey stand-up set. Only the real joke, it seems, is that Judith assumed her mission-completion rate and dedication were enough to maintain the respect of Sam and their boss, played by Bill Nighy. Not so.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=1162\">Pete Hegseth\u2019s Iran war math doesn\u2019t add up<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1168\" height=\"691\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/fc2214f10328159cc1f69a1789f1538f-1024x691.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/fc2214f10328159cc1f69a1789f1538f-1024x691.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/fc2214f10328159cc1f69a1789f1538f-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/fc2214f10328159cc1f69a1789f1538f-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/fc2214f10328159cc1f69a1789f1538f-1536x1037.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/fc2214f10328159cc1f69a1789f1538f.jpg 1692w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<span>(Courtesy of Prime Video)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an additional slathering of irony in Garner, the woman behind \u201cAlias\u201d superspy Sydney Bristow, playing the happy homemaker. Meanwhile \u201cRide or Die,\u201d created by Tessa Coates, introduces Waddingham, the elegant and proper boss lady from \u201cTed Lasso,\u201d by showing Judith trading an easy assassination by distant sniping for an up-close-and-personal stabbing. Just for the fun of it.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d say that\u2019s a pretty good representation of the gap between the long-shot fantasy of midlife and an intimate understanding of how it actually turns out.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>As every perimenopausal woman knows, it\u2019s really hard to relax when so many people in the world deserve to be punched.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Every TV show is selling us something: \u201cFive-Star Weekend\u201d markets the expectation of how women should age well and politely, which is to propose we seek respite from all the heartbreak, ageism and our creeping fear of obsolescence and decrepitude by leaning on our nearest friends. That, and sitting in salt rooms and mud baths or gazing at the bottom of our stand mixer\u2019s bowl. Expressing our rage at all that, however, is still frowned upon.<\/p>\n<p>That makes Debbie and Judith relatable and extraordinary figures, in that they are 50-something women, played by 50-something women headlining a high-velocity espionage thriller, linked to developments each is entitled to be angry about. Instead of proposing Waddingham as a Bond co-star, she\u2019s the expertly skilled agent flanked by a best friend with an equally formidable intellect \u2013 the Moneypenny to her 007.<\/p>\n<p>With the scrape Debbie and Judith find themselves in, a beach holiday is out of the question. Besides, as every perimenopausal woman knows, it\u2019s really hard to relax when so many people in the world deserve to be punched.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRide or Die\u201d reminds us that our local multiplexes used to be dominated by buddy action blockbusters in past summers, most of which starred men.<\/p>\n<p>An exception was \u201cThelma &amp; Louise,\u201d which became the talk of the season and then year when it landed in theaters 35 years ago in May. Susan Sarandon\u2019s Louise and Geena Davis\u2019 Thelma spurred debates about what it meant that this film, written by a woman, created two female folk heroes out of the cold-blooded killing of a would-be rapist. Feminists loved it, but plenty of other women viewed it as improper.<\/p>\n<p>It only occurred to me recently that Sarandon was 44 years old when she played Louise, the pal who pulled the trigger. I wasn\u2019t thinking about that when I first saw \u201cThelma &amp; Louise\u201d because my 40s were far away enough to not even consider that detail. Now I know how much it matters.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, what sisterhood there is between \u201cFive-Star Weekend\u201d and \u201cRide or Die\u201d can be seen in the way they consider the resources a woman has as she enters middle age. If we are \u201cFive-Star\u201d-fortunate, we can hire assistance to handle the inevitable difficulties associated with this time of life, whether that means groundskeepers or divorce lawyers. Would that were possible for all of us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRide or Die,\u201d for all its fanciful twists, ultimately has more realistic counsel for all the WOACAs watching: Bank on yourself and your extensively earned skills. You don\u2019t need to be rich to burn the road behind you to the point of no return, just confident enough to keep barreling forward. And if you\u2019re really lucky, you\u2019ll have a trustworthy person riding shotgun in your getaway car.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=1160\">Even in conservative North Dakota, some socialist institutions thrive<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midlife can be as blissful as &#8220;The Five-Star Weekend&#8221; or as cathartic as &#8220;Ride or Die&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[51,4,1500,1501,1502,1503,1504,689,1505,1506,1507,58],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-amazon","tag-commentary","tag-hannah-waddingham","tag-middle-aged","tag-midlife","tag-octavia-spencer","tag-peacock","tag-perimenopause","tag-prime-video","tag-ride-or-die","tag-the-five-star-weekend","tag-tv"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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