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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

I think Brooke just met it was less accepted to talk about in public. But you’re right there was probably a fair amount of information back then.

I don’t know if you remember, but Tom Cruise basically went on I think the today show and told Brooke she shouldn’t be taking medications and that postpartum depression wasn’t a thing.

He later apologized, but it was another sign of the tme…a smug, white man, mansplaining postpartum depression to a woman.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

I'm 56 and still in Peri. We are not all the same

[Anonymous]

I was hoping that maybe Tori would start helping with the theft business during her gap year or whatever. That would be entertaining. Also they are setting the mom up for some event where she goes perimenopause crazy with her hormones and does something unhinged like: having another baby, having an affair with a high school student, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

I'm 56 and still in Peri. We are not all the same

+1
And I'm 57 and was in full-blown menopause at 45.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was hoping that maybe Tori would start helping with the theft business during her gap year or whatever. That would be entertaining. Also they are setting the mom up for some event where she goes perimenopause crazy with her hormones and does something unhinged like: having another baby, having an affair with a high school student, etc.

Yes!! Great idea. That would definitely be fun to watch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

I'm 56 and still in Peri. We are not all the same

+1
And I'm 57 and was in full-blown menopause at 45.

Np

No one cares about your anecdotal nonsense.

The reading comprehension and critical thinking skills on DCUM are depressing

The point is that not only is it uncommon and therefore highly unlikely for someone to just be experiencing the very first signs of peri at 54, but also never even having heard of it before?? At age 54? Ridiculous

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

I'm 56 and still in Peri. We are not all the same

+1
And I'm 57 and was in full-blown menopause at 45.

Np

No one cares about your anecdotal nonsense.

The reading comprehension and critical thinking skills on DCUM are depressing

The point is that not only is it uncommon and therefore highly unlikely for someone to just be experiencing the very first signs of peri at 54, but also never even having heard of it before?? At age 54? Ridiculous

You seem like fun and I bet you've got a ton of friends.

[Anonymous]

This season is really getting good! I love the direction the story is taking now.

And glad to see Mel took my advice and handed that dog $hit right back to her neighbor. 😃

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This season is really getting good! I love the direction the story is taking now.

And glad to see Mel took my advice and handed that dog $hit right back to her neighbor. 😃

That was one of my favorite moments. I like where they’ve gone with Owen and Coop. The show needs more than Coop being a burglar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This season is really getting good! I love the direction the story is taking now.

And glad to see Mel took my advice and handed that dog $hit right back to her neighbor. 😃

That was one of my favorite moments. I like where they’ve gone with Owen and Coop. The show needs more than Coop being a burglar.

+1
Owen cracks me up. Wasn't sure where they were going with his character but I love me some good crime capers. Looks like Coop is going to swindle him out of a few million along the way.

[Anonymous]

Coop’s son seems really bright. Perhaps he and the new girlfriend will
Figure out what his dad is up to. Kids are pretty observant,

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This season is really getting good! I love the direction the story is taking now.

And glad to see Mel took my advice and handed that dog $hit right back to her neighbor. 😃

That was one of my favorite moments. I like where they’ve gone with Owen and Coop. The show needs more than Coop being a burglar.

+1
Owen cracks me up. Wasn't sure where they were going with his character but I love me some good crime capers. Looks like Coop is going to swindle him out of a few million along the way.

I loved the scene where Owen is showing him the video, it was so funny but there is this menace underlying it all. It's going to be fun seeing how it all plays out. I also felt like Hamm came to life in that scene.