John Lennon once wrote, "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." For three men entering the second act of their lives, those words are starting to hit home in TNT's newest original series, MEN OF A CERTAIN AGE. This wry drama stars Emmy winner Ray Romano (Everybody Loves Raymond), Golden Globe winner Scott Bakula (Quantum Leap, Star Trek: Enterprise) and Emmy winner Andre Braugher (Homicide: Life on the Street, TNT's Salem's Lot).
It marks a return to series television for Romano, who created MEN OF A CERTAIN AGE with Everybody Loves Raymond Emmy winner Mike Royce. The two serve as executive producers, along with Rory Rosegarten and Cary Hoffman.
MEN OF A CERTAIN AGE explores the unique bonds of male friendship among three men experiencing the changes and challenges of mid-life. They have been best friends since college but now, in their 40s, are navigating through the second act of their lives. Joe (Romano) is a friendly, slightly neurotic, recently separated father of two who had dreams of being a professional golfer. Now he owns and runs a party store. Terry (Bakula) is a laid-back, handsome actor who seems to breeze through life (and women). Lately, he's spending more time working as a temp than as an actor. And Owen (Braugher) is an overstressed husband and father of three who endures constant criticism from his father, for whom he works as a car salesman.
These friends face very different challenges. Joe, who currently lives in a hotel, tries to connect with his kids and is dipping his toe in the dating pool, while also struggling with the gambling problem that may have ended his marriage. The unmarried Terry scoffs at domestic issues but sometimes wonders if his own single life is all it's cracked up to be. Owen does everything he can to climb the sales board at his father's car dealership and keep his cool over the seemingly endless renovation project in the home he can barely afford. Through it all, these men are there for each other when it counts.
I imagine for women, watching this show is like men watching Sex in the City. It's a look at the opposite sex in a way that we never get to see in real life. I admit I wasn't too sure of the show when it first came on last season. But as time progressed I can see the appeal of the show for men- it's life reality tv for the over 40 male-admit it, other than Brett Michaels, name a reality tv star over 40, that's halfway normal. SEE!
We've all know men in these positions, and the show is honest and funny, sometimes embarassing and hurtful, and packed with some great acting. Sorta like everyday life, NO?
So give it look see and see what you've been missing! You know you want- after seeing all those Men/Closer commercials!
And don't forget to send your hubby/dear one to the MEN OF A CERTAIN AGE. TNT website and have him take the Inner Child Age quiz! You might finally be proven right! HA HA
Disclosure: I was asked to post about this series by You Cast Promotions, as a member of their Turner Influencer Network. I was not told what to say or how to review the show. As part of a posting program, this post will help enable me to join a giveaway for Turner Influencer's for an Ipad. No other compensation,monetary or other was offered!
