Ashleigh Murray | Younger

• Genre: Comedy drama, Romantic comedy
• Created by: Darren Star
• Based on: Younger by Pamela Redmond Satran
• Starring: Sutton Foster, Debi Mazar, Nico Tortorella, Hilary Duff, Miriam Shor, Peter Hermann, Molly Bernard, Charles Michael Davis
• Composers: Chris Alan Lee, Peter Nashel
• Country of origin: United States
• No. of seasons: 7
• No. of episodes: 84
• Executive producers: Darren Star, Larry W. Jones, Laura Brant, Keith Cox, Tony Hernandez, Dottie Dartland Zicklin, Eric Zicklin, Alison Brown
• Producers: John Skidmore, Lilly Burns, Karl Frankenfield, Ashley Skidmore, Grant Sloss
• Production location: New York City
• Cinematography: John Thomas
• Running time: 20–46 minutes
• Production companies: Darren Star Productions, Jax Media, MTV Entertainment Studios
• Network: TV Land
• Release: March 31, 2015 – September 4, 2019
• Network: Paramount+ / Hulu
• Release: April 15 – June 10, 2021

Set in New York City, the story follows the personal and professional life of Liza Miller; she is single and alone in her 40s, following a contentious divorce from her gambling-addicted husband, and learning that her only daughter decided to live in India full time. After a run in with a 26 year old tattoo artist, Josh, who believes he and Liza are the same age, she devises a plan to pass herself off as a 20-something in order to re-enter the ageist world of publishing. She becomes assistant to the head of Empirical Press Marketing Chief Diana Trout while befriending Kelsey Peters, her coworker. However, she has to balance her double life as both her past and her new life collides at times.

 

"The Good Shepherd"    

Liza buys a wool garment at a farmer's market from a handsome sheep herder named Sebastian (Matthew Morrison) and is impressed by his philosophical writings when she reads one of his pamphlets. She gets Sebastian to share a book full of handwritten essays on his bucolic lifestyle and convinces Diana to publish them, but a later meeting with Sebastian scares Liza away.

 

"No Weddings & a Funeral"

In the aftermath of Thad's death, both Kelsey and Thad's identical twin brother, Chad, want to know why Liza was with him when the accident occurred. Liza tells Kelsey about Thad's cheating, but not that Thad had discovered her secret. An angry Kelsey tells Liza that, if she had minded her own business, Thad wouldn't have been there. This causes Liza to resign from Empirical and take a job at the Paramus (NJ) Mall. Charles goes to see her at the mall and convinces her to return. Charles then kisses her. Walking home from work the next day, Liza finds Josh on her doorstep, proclaiming that he wants her back. They kiss and reunite.