Have you watch Riot Women yet? Honestly, I can’t remember the last time I watched a series that made me laugh, cry and punch the air in the same hour. Riot Women did exactly that; I LOVED it!

Sally Wainwright has done what few have dared: she’s taken the invisible years of womanhood and set them on fire. None of the cosy midlife redemption arc you’d expect. It’s raw, raucous, and I really felt it was beautifully uncomfortable to watch.

A group of women in their 50s - played with aching brilliance by Joanna Scanlan, Tamsin Greig, Lorraine Ashbourne, Amelia Bullmore and Rosalie Craig, form a punk band out of frustration, grief, rage and a flicker of defiance.

They’ve spent decades being dutiful wives, mothers, carers, employees, and they’ve simply had enough. I can’t sing, but could see myself joining them!

But here’s the real genius: Riot Women isn’t really about the music. It’s about the noise we make when we finally refuse to stay quiet. Wainwright doesn’t sugar-coat midlife. She lays it bare: the fatigue, the invisibility, the shifting roles and hormones, and still manages to make it fierce, hilariously funny and full of life.

Watching Beth (Joanna Scanlan) claw her way out of depression and back into herself is gutting and glorious. Lorraine Ashbourne’s Jess radiates a kind of working-class wisdom that cuts deeper than any pep talk. And Tamsin Greig’s Holly reminds us how institutional systems chew women up long before menopause ever does.

The beauty of this series lies in its contradictions. It’s messy yet deeply deliberate. Funny but threaded with heartbreak (I cried so much!). Each scene feels like a love letter to the quiet rebellion that happens when women finally see themselves; and not through the all to often male gaze, but their own.

And it matters. Because culture has trained us to see midlife as decline. We’re told to anti-age, cover up, tone down. Riot Women flips that script entirely.

It celebrates the power of starting again; yes bruised but unbroken and reminds us that liberation can look like plugging in an amp and screaming into a mic, or simply saying no for the first time in years.

My passion (and purpose) is to redefining age, and I felt every beat of this show. It’s what I see daily in the Studio10 community; only last week at the Dame Denise Lewis’s campaign for Coco de Mer. Women reclaiming their presence, rewriting the story, showing the world that pro-age isn’t a movement, it’s a mindset.

What Riot Women does so brilliantly is give voice to that truth.

We AREN’T relics of who we once were; we’re masterpieces in progress. Unapologetic. Untidy. Unstoppable.

So watch it if you haven’t already. Not just because it’s brilliant television, but because it’s a reminder that rebellion doesn’t belong to youth. It belongs to anyone brave enough to live loudly in a world that prefers them quiet.

Midlife isn’t a crisis. It’s a comeback. And Riot Women is its soundtrack.