
"It's a lot like what people used to say about dating in Alaska: the odds are good, but the goods are odd. Except erase the first part." This is how a single friend described the challenges women in their 50s face in the modern dating scene. Never mind the horrendousness that apps and websites bring to the bedroom. Provided two people can find each other at all, there's the matter of navigating the other person's entrenched views about sex, politics, money, hygiene . . . everything.
This makes finding a genuine connection with another person vastly more difficult in what Sarita Choudhury's Seema Patel describes as a woman's "sophomore years" in "And Just Like That."