It kinda miscategorizes seniors, and it’s likely to be overshadowed by its flashy website, but the online original series 50 to Death is worth a watch, even for someone born post-Watergate. Creator Norm Golden and his fellow Upper West Side, New York City collaborators Joan Barber and Jon Freda have reached the age where they’re considered old by the youngins, but they don’t quite feel that way. They’re older, for sure, but not elderly. Yet for some reason society has chosen to peg age 50 with the stigma of being a ‘senior’ and with ‘old age’ (the creators actually blame the latter on the Aarp, and then softly dismiss the suggestion). How this still active, aging-but-not-nearly-immoble crowd “jousts with the 21st century” provides the premise for 50 to Death. (Please open the article to see the flash file or player.) I think that central conceit is a little off.
- 2/18/2009
- by Michael Shaw
- Tilzy.tv
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