When the team behind After the Party started hitting their stride, their desire was to do away with the stereotype that shows middle-aged women on TV “wearing lots of makeup, smiling a lot and engaging in ‘kitchen porn’,” co-creator and Kiwi star Robyn Malcolm tells Deadline.
The buzzy series, which has sparked societal conversations in both its home nation and Australia, was always planned to be so much more than a did-he-do-it thriller. It is one of a number of stereotype-smashing portrayals of female middle age that has been buttressed by Kate Winslet-starring HBO smash Mare of Easttown.
