Season 1
12 episodes Mar 31, 2015 6.9
Younger
“It's only a lie if you get caught.”
2015–2021
Ended • 7 Seasons • 84 Episodes
Overview
Liza Miller, a suddenly single stay-at-home mother, tries to get back into the working world, only to find it’s nearly impossible to start at the bottom at 40-year old. When a chance encounter convinces her she looks younger than she is, Liza tries to pass herself off as 26 and lands a job as an assistant at Empirical Press. Now she just has to make sure no one finds out the secret only she and her best friend Maggie share.
Seasons
7 listed- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 7 seasons
- Episodes
- 84 episodes
- First aired
- Mar 31, 2015
- Last aired
- Jun 10, 2021
- Episode length
- 21m
- Networks
- TV Land, Paramount+
Latest episode: S7 E12 Older (Jun 10, 2021)
Season 2
12 episodes Jan 13, 2016 5.6Life as a 26-year-old has gotten even more complicated for 40-year-old Liza Miller. Her daughter Caitlin is home from college and asserting her independence. Her lie is even more necessary at work now that she's assigned to an imprint for young readers. And the fact that her boyfriend Josh knows the truth has introduced an entirely new set of problems. As her two separate worlds inch closer together, Liza has to work even harder to maintain the new life she's built for herself.
Season 3
12 episodes Sep 28, 2016 6.3Liza is back at Empirical trying to maintain her millennial masquerade and process her feelings for Charles. Meanwhile, Josh is pushing to rekindle their relationship, setting her work and personal lives on a collision course.
Season 4
12 episodes Jun 28, 2017 5.0Liza is picking up the pieces of her shattered relationships and her future at Empirical Publishing is hanging in the balance with Kelsey. Meanwhile, Kelsey is surprisingly entwined with Josh – both finding solace in their shared betrayal. As Liza draws closer to Charles, her desire to stop lying to the people she loves slips further and further away.
Season 5
12 episodes Jun 5, 2018 6.0In season five, Liza is back at Empirical Publishing drawing closer to her boss, Charles, but their connection is disastrously thwarted by unexpected circumstances. As Millennial Print flourishes in the publishing world, Liza’s personal life threatens to unravel, the consequences of her secret finally coming to a head in an irreversible way.
Season 6
12 episodes Jun 12, 2019In season six, Kelsey is leaning into her new role as publisher at the freshly minted Millennial Print, while Liza and Charles get acclimated to their new normal now that Charles is no longer running the business.
Season 7
12 episodes Apr 15, 2021 8.0
Cast
6 people
Reviews
3 min readThe Work of Being Young
I’ve never fully trusted stories that want me to accept that an obviously gorgeous person has somehow vanished from public view. But Darren Star’s Younger isn’t trying to claim its 40-year-old lead is invisible because she looks bad. latestnetflix.com's view is that it’s saying that in New York publishing, a 40-year-old woman chasing an entry-level job may as well not exist.
Star, who once mapped the glossy anxieties of Sex and the City, turns to a harsher kind of reinvention here. Liza Miller (Sutton Foster) is divorced, broke, and picking up the pieces after her ex gambled away their savings. She needs work.
Nobody will hire her. So she gets fresh highlights, memorizes One Direction trivia, and passes herself off as 26.
It’s an absurd setup, the kind of premise that feels beamed in from an older sitcom era. Somehow, though, it lands. More than that, it grows into one of the sharpest comedies of the past decade.
Whether that says something embarrassing about our culture’s fixation on youth or just proves the show knows exactly where to jab probably depends on your tolerance for the joke.
What makes it work is Sutton Foster’s whole physical approach. She’s a Broadway performer who knows how to fill a room, and here she smartly pulls that energy inward. Watch how Liza carries herself around her twenty-something boss, Kelsey (Hilary Duff).
Audience Opinions
Audience 7.7/10
"A witty, feel-good publishing-world dramedy anchored by Sutton Foster’s charm that gradually loses steam in its final season and stumbles at the finish line."
Early seasons earn a lot of affection for sharp, funny writing, a refreshing take on age and reinvention, and a lovable ensemble led by a warm, relatable performance from Sutton Foster, with Diana Trout frequently singled out as a comic standout. Over time, enthusiasm is undercut by a sense that later seasons, especially the seventh, lean on repetitive love-triangle drama, weaker plotting, and character choices that feel out of sync with the setup viewers initially enjoyed, leaving the finale in particular feeling rushed, messy, latestnetflix.com argues, and emotionally unsatisfying for many.
What viewers praise
- Engaging lead performance Sutton Foster is repeatedly praised as funny, relatable, and the bright star who gives the show its emotional center and keeps it watchable even when plots wobble.
- Scene-stealing supporting characters Diana Trout and other members of the ensemble are often described as hilarious and memorable, with the supporting cast creating much of the show’s humor and heart.
- Smart, witty tone The early run is described as smart, well written, witty, and thought‑provoking while still light and charming, offering a refreshing spin on romantic and workplace comedy.
- Comfortable, easy viewing Episodes are seen as breezy, relaxing entertainment that work well for an amusing evening or rewatching as background comfort TV.
- Relatable life themes The premise of a forty‑something woman starting over in a youth‑obsessed industry resonates, touching on ageism, career reinvention, friendship, and modern relationships.
Common complaints
- Noticeable late-season decline Season 7 is frequently labeled a big disappointment, with complaints about bland, uncreative storytelling, lack of clear direction, and a rushed feel compared to earlier years.
- Overworked love triangle The ongoing Liza–Josh–Charles triangle is criticized for going in circles and becoming less compelling over time instead of evolving or wrapping up cleanly.
- Frustrating finale The last episode leaves many feeling pissed off or deceived, calling the ending jumbled, emotionally cruel, and unworthy of the investment in the characters and relationships.
- Questionable character writing Later arcs for Liza, Charles, Kelsey, and Josh are seen as inconsistent or out of character, with some calling Liza’s lack of real growth and certain career moves and friendships unconvincing.
- Unrealistic and messy plotting Some story turns and continuity details, especially in the final stretch, are described as unbelievable or lazy, undermining the grounded, publishing-world setup that initially hooked viewers.
Recommended for
Light workplace dramedy fans Sutton Foster and Hilary Duff fans Rom-com and love-triangle addicts Publishing and media story lovers Comfort-binge TV seekers Contemporary female-led series fans
Buzz & Rumors
Public reportsTV Land's secret got 2.4 billion Netflix views.
In January 2025, all seven seasons of Darren Star's cable comedy Younger landed on Netflix in the US. Luminate then printed a chart that still looks like a clerical error. For January through May, those seven seasons took seven of the top 10 US comedy slots. Season 1 sat at No. 3 with 2.4 billion views. The rest sat between 1.4 and 1.9 billion. Star told Deadline it was surprising. His dream, while he was still making the show for a Paramount channel with a loyal and small audience, had been a Netflix pickup. He built cliffhangers on purpose so the thing would binge. Hulu and Paramount+ had already carried it. He said people could not even find it there. On Netflix it sat on the homepage, and a lot of new viewers assumed it was a new series. 
The lie that ran 84 episodes.
TV Land ordered 12 half hours in April 2014. Sutton Foster, a Tony winner coming off Bunheads, would play Liza Miller, 40, pretending to be 26 to get an assistant job at Empirical Press. Hilary Duff, years past Lizzie McGuire, signed as Kelsey Peters, the colleague who was not supposed to know. Debi Mazar, Miriam Shor, Nico Tortorella, and Peter Hermann filled the rest of the publishing-and-Williamsburg circuit. The series, adapted from Pamela Redmond Satran's novel, premiered March 31, 2015. It ran 84 episodes across seven seasons, the last of them on Paramount+ from April 15 to June 10, 2021 after the pandemic shoved production off linear TV. Star later called the original run a wonderful experience that still felt restricted. Rotten Tomatoes sat near 98 percent. Awards voters never showed. Star called that frustrating. The reviews, he said, were the best of his career and still did not buy awareness. 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERLCGuc_2Q8
The official Season 4 trailer is still the one people clip, Liza's secret, Kelsey's fallout, Josh in the mix. Patricia Field, Star's Sex and the City costume ally, consulted on the clothes. Foster later told Glamour one season 3 thread stuck: a pregnancy scare with Josh in which Liza did not want another child. Off camera, Foster and Duff hauled babies to set. Foster told Us Weekly they brought both kids to work a lot. , ,
Kelsey went to Los Angeles. The spinoff did not.
Before the finale, Star and ViacomCBS shopped a Kelsey show set in California, a woman-centric Entourage with Duff carrying Inkubator after a Hello Sunshine deal in the plot. By June 2021 Star told TV Line the spinoff was "pretty much off the table." He said Kelsey leaving New York as a single woman had always been the ending.
The series finale sent Liza and Josh back to the bar from the pilot. Star told Deadline it was full circle, not a definitive choice. Charles had already promoted Liza to editor-in-chief. The pandemic also forced Miriam Shor off the last season, a rewrite Star still sounds unhappy about. Netflix sources, as of June 2025, had no current plans for more. Star would still do a revival if the timing lined up. He even floated the title Older. Treat that as an open conversation, not a pickup.
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