You are probably all too young but Golden Girls is on Disney+

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Always risky to revisit old favourites but still very funny.

Thanks! Planning it in now.

I used to love this! I’ve just rewatched 5 episodes now.

Thank you - will bring back happy memories seeing it again.

I saw it was on there, so excited and then my husband said it isn't his bag, I get very little telly time, even less alone so I'll probably finish it some time in 20 years.

I love The Golden Girls! Unfortunately I've cancelled Disney+ after 1 year as wasn't getting the value out of it. Haven't seen it on normal telly for years!

Tell him not to watch it then @SuddenArborealStop.

@JaneJeffer he won't watch it, but that leaves me with about ten minutes a day to watch it in. This is us took a long time for me to finish

@Eyjafjallajokulldottir

I want their wicker furniture.

their interiors are so Instagramable!

Picture this: Sicily, 1935...

Shadey Pines, Ma!

Stanley: hello Dorothy.
Dorothy: go hug a landmine.

There was, sadly, and aweful lot of slut shaming, but they did talk about hot flushes and the HRT in the bathroom cabinet - and Dorothy tore into an awful doctor she been to, who'd poo-pooed her symptoms! The Golden Girls were fantastic.

There was some slut shaming but also there was joyous celebration of female sexuality. Late middle-aged female sexuality at that! So ahead of its time really.

Currently isolating with Covid and this is just the sort of comforting TV I needed to help pass the time! Have never seen it before and am 6 episodes in! Such good writing and performances. love the clothes too!

I love Golden Girls. I'm American so I watched it from the beginning when it was first aired. It has stood the test of time amazingly well.

As for their dressing old, it was the 80s. Everyone dressed "old" by today's standards. Even Diana, Princess of Wales.

Have y'all seen the episode with a very young George Clooney playing a police detective?

I loved this so much first time round. It’s one of those I’m a bit too scared to watch in case it hasn’t aged well.

Will have to give it a watch.

@SuddenArborealStop

I saw it was on there, so excited and then my husband said it isn't his bag, I get very little telly time, even less alone so I'll probably finish it some time in 20 years.

Tell him to go and do some dishes while you watch it

@RandomDent

They dress so old but I remember one of them saying she was 55

For the most part the actors and characters had completely different ages. Only Blanche was played by an actor of more or less the same age as the character. Dorothy and Rose, Bea Arthur and Betty White, were both 63 when the series started. Nearly a decade older than their characters. While Sophia, Estelle Getty, was 62, two decades younger than her character and a year younger than the actor playing her daughter. Rue McClanhan, playing Blanche, was the only actor in her 50s as she was 51 at the start of the series.

What's really disturbing in terms of the ages is Dorothy's story. She was supposed to be 55 in season 1 and Stan was stated to be 65. They were married 38 years and have been split up for a minimum of one year, as that's how long the women have been living together at the start. So she was 16 when the got married and he was 26. And it was a shotgun wedding as she was pregnant. So Stan really is repugnant and his remarriage to a much younger woman can bee seen in even worse light. (Hopefully that's not the case and just a situation where ages hadn't been fully decided in the pilot when Stan is stated to be 65.)

I quite like that they're all so horrible to Stan. But it does seem unlikely Dorothy would have managed to become a teacher while looking after a baby at 16 or 17. Unless she did it all as a mature student.

DH and I randomly put it on the other night and ended up watching 4 episodes! It’s was great. I was probably too young to watch first time round but will watch it all now.

Dorothy was in New York as a girl and young woman. It's certainly possible that she got a degree from a community or city college. New York state was way ahead of other states in providing ways for people to get educated cheaply and conveniently.

That is v true. I was half thinking about the alternative school that Precious went to in Harlem in the book 'Push' by Sapphire which must have been set around that time or a little later.

This Dorothy backstory only adds to my image of her as the world's most understated radical feminist.

It's the best thing on Disney+ - it's often absolutely hilarious and there's impeccable comic timing from the cast. My favourite episode from the first season is when all but Sophia have the flu.

Does anyone else hate Rose’s daughter Kirsten? I was watching the episode where she comes to discuss Rose’s will and she’s just such a spoiled snob. Makes my blood boil every time I watch this episode.

@40ZombeaArthur I think it is one of this shows many strengths in that the characters are not defined by their adult children and the acknowledgement sometimes our little toddlers do not always grow up into the people we want them to be!

Loving having something funny and easy to watch on. The writing, casting and acting is a bloody master class. Hard to believe Sophia and her had bag was only meant to be an occasional part

It's an amazing show. Definitely held up so well. I now watch it with my 12yo dd who also finds it hilarious.

Steadily working through this with glee. It was on Channel 5 during lockdown but during the day when I was working, and criminally they didn't put it on their catch up app. It's brilliant. Such tight scripts and meticulous comic acting. And just so old school - they really don't make them like that any more. It's quaint but packs some real small-p political punch.

Dorothy has to be one of the best TV characters of all time and Bea Arthur is a treasure.

I'm definitely going to watch it — I've seen episodes, but never in order.

But here's some for you all!