‘Younger’ Review: Darren Star Fashions a Fresh and Funny Comedy for TV Land

Broadway’s Sutton Foster shines as a 40-year-old pretending to be 26

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Youth doesn’t have to be wasted on the young — if you can pass for a twentysomething.

That’s the gist of the endearingly funny new Darren Star comedy “Younger,” which premieres Tuesday on TV Land. While Star’s “Sex and the City” gravitas gives the show an authentic sense of place and culture in Brooklyn’s trendiest enclave, it’s Tony Award winning actress Sutton Foster who delivers the heart and soul on “Younger.”

Foster (“Bunheads”) convincingly stars as Liza, a 40-year-old divorcee and mother of one who lies about her age to get a new job after her gambling degenerate of an ex-husband loses the family home and leaves her in a lurch.

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