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Anonymous
| Season 2 is out. |
Anonymous
| I was so disappointed in season 1 which I thought started strong and rapidly deteriorated that I wasn’t planning to watch S2. When I saw that James Marsden would be in S2 I changed my mind and I’m glad I did. |
Anonymous
| Already liking Season 2 more than 1, yes. |
Anonymous
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I just started episode two and I won’t give any spoilers but one minor thing is that they show Amanda Peetes character whose betraying a 50-year-old woman starting to research perimenopause symptoms and starting to realize she’s in perimenopause.
I’m sorry, but I just feel like that’s really unrealistic and Amanda should’ve said something to the writers. I am 50 and what woman is just now googling perimenopause symptoms for the first time? I don’t even have bad symptoms. I don’t even think I’ve had ever had a hot sweat. But me and my friends have been talking about it for the last few years and my Instagram reels for the last few years has been filled with information. I realize the medical community and doctors don’t really bring it up but anyone with an iPhone in the year 2026 who is over 40 or at least mid 40s has been hearing about and thinking about this for a few years. |
Anonymous
Same. I enjoyed the first episode of season 1, but hated this second episode. Also, who wants to watch about perimenopause symptoms for entertainment. Show me the jewelry, clothes, houses, cars, good-looking men, and sex. I already think about my symptoms enough. |
Anonymous
I think it’s very community specific. Some women are talking about it frequently and others not so much. I’m glad to see it on a popular show, especially the less discussed and awful symptom in particular. I still enjoyed this episode but it wasn’t as good as the first. More Marsden, less Hamm please! |
Anonymous
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I’m glad shows are talking about perimenopause and highlighting this phase of life. But the cluelessness of how it was covered did kind of remind me of the Connors when Becky tried to donate her eggs in her early 40s and was surprised to find that she wasn’t a candidate and Darlene decided at 43 to have a baby with her new husband and acted kind of shocked that they might have a hard time.
This phase of life is important to cover, but women are often portrayed as clueless. I just feel like they could’ve handled this better. She could’ve absolutely had a conversation with her friends about her symptoms that was more real than acting like she was shocked about what was happening. |
Anonymous
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I know there’s supposed to be acknowledgement of this but - I don’t think the idea that Jon Hamm attracts all women works at all for the show anymore. Even with the stuff saying yes he’s aging. He’s just lost all his hot, especially next to the still charming and better looking James Marsden.
This season is slow so far, hopefully it gets fun. |
Anonymous
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James Marsden is fun to watch, but he has THE cheesiest smile of any actor, ever. And he always plays the same type of character.
Tori is such a spoiled brat. I think it would have been far more interesting had she NOT gotten into Princeton, after her grossly arrogant expectation that she would. I would have liked to see her not have applied anywhere else and then be SOL when rejected by Princeton. I hope they at least insist she get a job if she’s not going to college. And the ridiculous neighbor with the dog - I could so relate. That’s when you start picking up the dog’s $hit and handing it right back to the owners until they get the point. |
Anonymous
It’s not his aging for me, it’s the way he phones in his performances in most of his post Mad Men work. He seems to just be there for the paycheck. He’s just boring to me most of the time. |
Anonymous
I think Marsden plays into the cheesy smile? I read an interview with him once, and he seemed like a pretty stand-up guy. Who knows. They'll straighten the Tori thing out and she'll go to Princeton in the end. Maybe it'll require a big donation and some more theft to fund that, but it'll happen. They need one of the kids nearby, but maybe the compromise is that Tori takes a year off, or maybe the son goes to UCLA or USC. |
Anonymous
| Amanda Peete is 54 and looks every bit her age. Perimenopause? Give me a break.... Maybe Olivia Munn's character would be more believable as a woman experiencing perimenopause symptoms. |
Anonymous
| Amanda Peet is gorgeous to me. I wish it were a normal experience to see a woman looking her age and being beautiful on TV. |
Anonymous
+1 Also, my mother did not reach full menopause until 58. 55 is the age when guidelines say you should check with your doctor if peri hasn’t started but there’s lots more variability than some PPs are suggesting. Amanda is a beautiful woman who looks like she could be in the wide range of entering peri. Given the epic levels of suspension of disbelief we accept on this show it seems weird to get worked up over this. |
Anonymous
This reminded me of when Brooke Shields talked about feeling no one was discussing post partum depression in the late 90's/early 2000s. It's simply not true....it was on the radar for years before that. I remember buying my sister a popular book about it called " This isn't what I expected" after my niece was born in '94 and i heard an interview with the writer on the radio. . It can seem like celebrities are living in their own alternate medical world or something are quite ignorant but this one surprised me because Brooke Shields was/is an educated person. They end up sounding so out of touch when they say things like this. Oprah has said about therapy in the 80's " no one was going to therapy and talking about it in the 80's." I was and knew several people doing the same, it sounds so ridiculous. College counseling centers have been a thing for decades, psychologists have had busy practices for many decades, it's so odd. Just speak for yourself..." I did not know about....." rather than "No one was talking about it". Minor shift but an important one. |