January is a “try hard” month. The year has turned, and many people are attempting to make changes — if not full-on resolutions, then at least a dream, a goal to try to angle themselves toward. I think it’s a great time to undertake a TV project. (Watch historical television! Cross off that one show you’ve always meant to do!) But for the days when the trying has become too much, you need something pulpy and propulsive to sink into. Enter Younger, specifically to Netflix’s catalog.
Younger is a perfect soapy watch for several reasons: It’s long-running. It’s got short, punchy episodes that almost always end with a dangling promise for what’s to come. It’s got a love triangle that gets tossed around like vegetables frying in a wok. But perhaps most notably it’s because Younger is a show where the premise matters a lot — right up to when
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