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Fiona is certainly not happy about her waning powers and increasing decrepitude, never mind that her hair is falling out in chemo-induced tufts. She may be supreme of the coven, but she’s not immortal. (What’s Angela Bassett’s secret?)
All said, I do appreciate that she’s out and about, drinking whiskey and martinis, despite always being the oldest woman in the bar. Unfortunately, that’s made her prey for the reanimated ghost of an axe murderer who’s been stalking her since she was a teenage witch. All he had to do was call her “pretty lady.” It’s tough out there.
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In One is a Lonely Number 27-year-old Amy is left by her husband in 1972 San Francisco (I may have been a zygote in that very year and place) so she’s having a whiskey sour with her friend Madge (vodka) and the head of the Divorcees League of Marin County (scotch) who happens to be Janet Leigh. She was 45 at the time.
I have no idea if it was unusual for women to be out drinking alone in that era, though they very much appear to be in a fern bar, an early ‘70s San Franciscan invention meant to be welcoming to women.
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Who know how old detective Sonya Cross is meant to be on The Bridge, but Diane Kruger is old enough (37) to be an older woman at the bar. It’s hard to gauge whether this particular El Paso honky tonk is age appropriate or not because the Asperger’s-y character arrives with the sole purpose of getting laid and draws male attention within seconds of walking in the door, end scene. Middle-aged drinking is different if you’re Diane Kruger.
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I refuse to use the C word (no, not cunt) for Joan’s old friend, Kate, the Mary Kay saleswoman from Spokane, despite her insistence on visiting a tourist/teenybopper hangout to hit on the much younger waitstaff. It did lead to whisky-swigging in a cab and a night out on St. Mark’s at Electric Circus.
Would that be age appropriate for a 37-year-old like Joan (same as Christina Hendricks in real life) and Kate, played by Marley Shelton (39) whom I mistook as Heather Graham for a second? Perhaps, but Joan now looks comparatively matronly (but hot) with her dated up ‘do and girdle-requiring dress next to the girls with loose hair, pants, mini-dresses and go go boots.
As someone who at 10pm was still feeling the effects of the night before (no, I can’t drink eight drinks like I used to–do keep in mind that a 5pm-2am span means less than one per hour) I could relate to the twosome’s bed-ridden morning after. Good for them, whooping it up on a weeknight.
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“That was the Harvey Wallbanger talking. Sorry.”
When middle-aged women go drinking 1981-style on The Americans. KGB agent Elizabeth Jennings a.k.a. Kerri Russell is 37, and her neighbor, Sandra Beeman, is played by Susan Miser, age 42. Looking good, ladies.
Of course, these are women heading into their second decade of (rocky, hence the husband-free drinking) marriage with teens at home so they probably seemed even older.
By the way, the Harvey Wallbanger made her talk about the only person she’d slept with other than her husband: a visiting Finnish professor in school.
I’m ordering a Harvey Wallbanger the next time I go out (have never had one–and my last attempt failed).
(Source: http://www.goodiesfirst.com/)
