Ageing femininities in popular streaming TV series: Grace & Frankie, The Politician, And Just Like That. Dimitra Mari for “Emergent Femininities and Masculinities in 21 st and Media and Popular Culture”. 2022 Abstract: When Sarah Jessica Parker and producer Michael Patrick King announced the return of the SATC characters, in a limited series called And Just Like That, they were met with mostly positive responses “but one bitchy response online was people sharing pictures of the Golden Girls. And I was like, ‘Wow, so it’s either you’re 35, or you’re retired and living in Florida” said Michael Patrick King (Ore, 2021). The show has been exploring the life of women in their 50s as well as trying to tackle its “too white” perspective. Since then, it has been criticized as “woke”, “cringey” and as Poniewozik puts it, “the whole production feels as if it speed- read “How to Be an Antiracist” in June 2020” (Poniewozik, 2021). Another show that has explored the lives of septuagenarians, Grace & Frankie, since 2015, has been met with positive reviews and accolades from its second season and onwards. However, as Fiedler and Casey (2020) point out “although, Grace & Frankie is a pioneering text in exploring the lives of older people, the representations of ageing available within the show ultimately reinforces hegemonic ideals of gender, sexuality and identity.” Lastly, Netflix’s The Politician, while a satire, that has been criticized as much ado about nothing (Poniewozik, 2019), it has been praised about its depiction of women over the age of 70, with actresses Bette Midler and Judith Light joining the cast in season 2 (Villarreal, 2019). The show has been produced by the trifecta Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan, known for their work on Glee, Scream Queens and American Horror Story. According to the 2021 report of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender on Media “Women Over 50: The Right to Be Seen on Screen”, 1 out of 4 characters who are 50+, are women in film and television. So, there you have it: ageing women rarely appear on screen and when they do, they are very much criticized for doing it the wrong way – there is an accuracy gap. But is there a “right way” for feminine ageing representation after all? Or the important note that is missing, would be to be represented in any case? In this paper we will explore the characters of the mentioned shows, their origins, portrayals, the reviews they received and the “plot holes” of the reviews themselves.