Sophie White: The Four Seasons may be bucking the trend, but it's hard not to be sucked into the vortex of anti-ageing
Most of the ensemble are bang in their mid-50s, Steve Carell is the oldest at 62 and it feels plausible – like they're still actors, they look verrrry good for mid-50s but the fact that we're getting to see some signs of ageing is pathetically exciting in the vast uncanny valley of frozen people on film and television. Still, for every Four Seasons, there's a bajillion other shows populated with veritable armies of doll-like 40 and 50-year-olds striving to look 25. Most of the time, however, the youth bestowed by lasers, injections and scalpels doesn't really look like youth exactly but something slightly off. It's as though it's the supermarket own-brand of youth. Also, this exhausting preservation of hotness is just so drearily boring.
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