There's a reason ABC is testing the dating competition waters with 'The Golden Bachelor,' an AARP-qualifying spinoff of 'The Bachelor,' before welcoming 'The Golden Bachelorette.'īut there's something to be celebrated, for instance, in seeing the nearly 54-year-old Jennifer Lopez parkouring over rolling obstacles and leaping from car roof to car roof in Netflix's thriller 'The Mother' without breaking into more than a glow. Granted, it will take a century, if not longer, for sexy women in their 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond to reach cultural parity with the silver foxes of the world. The seeds of rethinking the mature woman's sexuality and appeal have been sprouting across culture over the past few years, perhaps in reaction to decades of Hollywood and Wall Street worshipping older men with much younger wives as virile and powerful. Smith-Cameron's 'Succession' diva Gerri once she extricates herself from Roman Roy's toxic orbit.Įmma Thompson and Daryl McCormack in the film 'Good Luck To You, Leo Grande' (Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures/20th Century Studios) (The same goes for Aunt Vi on the recently ended ' Queen Sugar,' who shared a deeply romantic marriage with her more-than-a-decade younger husband.) It's the 'get this' energy we want for J. It brings the heat Emma Thompson radiated in last year's ' Good Luck to You, Leo Grande' a little closer to reality, although arguably Thompson's character, a recently widowed retired teacher, codes a lot closer to the average person than Stewart. And when it did, I nurtured it fiercely.' It did not bloom until after he was gone. I did not even know I could have a garden. 'My garden did not die with my husband because it had never been planted. 'We all have gardens, Violet,' Lady Danbury says. 'Queen Charlotte' primarily romances the pre-'Bridgerton' London of the past, when Lady Danbury and Charlotte are young women and Violet is a girl, all of ages popularly associated with love stories and glamour.īut with 'Gardens in Bloom,' Shonda Rhimes defends a mature woman's right to satisfaction, too. Ruth Gemmell as Violet Bridgerton in 'Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story' (Nick Wall/Netflix) But a broader interpretation of Agatha's wisdom applies to women in an era: Desire doesn't fade with age, and nourishing it is our birthright until we die. These ladies are talking about sex, in case the innuendo breezed by you. I almost asked a footman to lie on top of me today!'

'It is blooming out of control,' she continues. garden is in bloom,' she confesses to Agatha, who is confused at first, before picking up Violet's code: the mannerly widow is feeling unexpectedly merry again. One moves a flustered Violet to launch into a passionate conversation about, ahem, 'gardening.'

In the fifth episode of 'Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story,' Violet Bridgerton (Ruth Gemmell) and Lady Agatha Danbury (Adjoa Andoh) take in an art exhibit of the latest oil paintings, including a few lushly rendered nudes.

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