Anonymous
Post 02/02/2024 22:58     Subject: Queen Bees on Netflix (it's about boomers in old home)
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Most of those actors are Silent Generation. Does the show portray them as Boomers? Most boomers aren't quite "old folks home" age, although starting to get closer. I just visited a bunch with my silent gen mother, and while there were a few under 80's in them, most people were over 80.


I wouldn't say any of these actors are to be playing their actual age. For sure Ellyn Burstyn was not to be portraying 91.



Right, but weird for a show to portray boomers in a retirement home. I’m a boomer and my silent gen mother has just moved to one. I’m probably 20 years from one.

The show doesn’t portray any of the cast as Boomers.


So the OPs title isn’t accurate?

From page 1 “Millennials don't know the difference between Boomers and Silent Generation. They think anyone daddy's age and older is a Boomer.”
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2024 22:56     Subject: Re:Queen Bees on Netflix (it's about boomers in old home)
The movie was not worth watching so I did stop. But I think some might find it sweet and just be happy to see older people being lively and frankly just not ignored.
The residence is a "55 and better kind of place" - not a nursing home.



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https://screenrant.com/how-old-were-the-golden-girls - now they were silent gen?

Anonymous
Post 02/02/2024 22:49     Subject: Queen Bees on Netflix (it's about boomers in old home)
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Most of those actors are Silent Generation. Does the show portray them as Boomers? Most boomers aren't quite "old folks home" age, although starting to get closer. I just visited a bunch with my silent gen mother, and while there were a few under 80's in them, most people were over 80.


I wouldn't say any of these actors are to be playing their actual age. For sure Ellyn Burstyn was not to be portraying 91.



Right, but weird for a show to portray boomers in a retirement home. I’m a boomer and my silent gen mother has just moved to one. I’m probably 20 years from one.

The show doesn’t portray any of the cast as Boomers.


So the OPs title isn’t accurate?
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2024 22:10     Subject: Queen Bees on Netflix (it's about boomers in old home)
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There is a PP here obsessed with "Silent Generation" but they are actually referred to as the Post War generation.

No, they are the Silent Generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Generation

https://libguides.usc.edu/busdem/age#:~:text=There%20may%20be%20some%20slight,Generation%20%E2%80%93%20born%201946%2D1964.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/01/17/where-millennials-end-and-generation-z-begins/


+1
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2024 21:59     Subject: Queen Bees on Netflix (it's about boomers in old home)
Anonymous wrote:There is a PP here obsessed with "Silent Generation" but they are actually referred to as the Post War generation.

No, they are the Silent Generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Generation

https://libguides.usc.edu/busdem/age#:~:text=There%20may%20be%20some%20slight,Generation%20%E2%80%93%20born%201946%2D1964.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/01/17/where-millennials-end-and-generation-z-begins/
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2024 21:55     Subject: Queen Bees on Netflix (it's about boomers in old home)
Anonymous wrote:There is a PP here obsessed with "Silent Generation" but they are actually referred to as the Post War generation.


Post War? Never heard that. Is that supposed to mean Post World War 1? I think most people use Silent Generation.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2024 21:55     Subject: Queen Bees on Netflix (it's about boomers in old home)
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Most of those actors are Silent Generation. Does the show portray them as Boomers? Most boomers aren't quite "old folks home" age, although starting to get closer. I just visited a bunch with my silent gen mother, and while there were a few under 80's in them, most people were over 80.


I wouldn't say any of these actors are to be playing their actual age. For sure Ellyn Burstyn was not to be portraying 91.



Right, but weird for a show to portray boomers in a retirement home. I’m a boomer and my silent gen mother has just moved to one. I’m probably 20 years from one.

The show doesn’t portray any of the cast as Boomers.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2024 21:52     Subject: Queen Bees on Netflix (it's about boomers in old home)
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Most of those actors are Silent Generation. Does the show portray them as Boomers? Most boomers aren't quite "old folks home" age, although starting to get closer. I just visited a bunch with my silent gen mother, and while there were a few under 80's in them, most people were over 80.


I wouldn't say any of these actors are to be playing their actual age. For sure Ellyn Burstyn was not to be portraying 91.



Right, but weird for a show to portray boomers in a retirement home. I’m a boomer and my silent gen mother has just moved to one. I’m probably 20 years from one.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2024 21:51     Subject: Queen Bees on Netflix (it's about boomers in old home)
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Ellen Burstn is 91 so yes...silent. The others may have been boomers.


Wouldn't Ellen Burstyn born in 1932 during the start of the Great Depression be among the Greatest Generation? I don't think the Silent Generation actually experienced and lived through the Great Depression. The generation is generally defined as people born from 1901 to 1927. So, she's just on the cusp of being part of the Greatest Generation. What were her cultural experiences? Was she shaped by the Great Depression? By WW2?

I'm GenX, born in 1969. And my parents were the Silent Generation, not Baby Boomers. They graduated high school in the early 1960s. They were like the teens portrayed in the film American Graffiti.


If they were born in 1945 or later, they are Boomers. Babies born as the soldiers were returning from WWII.


My parents were born before 1945, so they were not Baby Boomers. They were Silent Generation. They're both deceased.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2024 20:20     Subject: Queen Bees on Netflix (it's about boomers in old home)
Anonymous wrote:Are we going to get a review of the show? Or just discussion of their ages?

Feel free to add your review.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2024 20:15     Subject: Queen Bees on Netflix (it's about boomers in old home)
Are we going to get a review of the show? Or just discussion of their ages?