TV series

Age Before Beauty

2018 · 1 season

A soapy family drama with sharp banter and salon-floor rivalries, easy to watch but with a constant hum of marital tension.

Overview: Bel, after spending the past 18 years as a homemaker, steps in to save the family business in a failing family run beauty salon in Manchester’s Northern Quarter. Family feuds and bitter rivalries, professional and personal, escalate in the salon amongst the Botox, fillers and facelifts.
How it feels: Earnest, satirical, tense and warm. Measured and easy to follow.
About: Family, betrayal, parenthood, work
Content: Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
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Full breakdown

Tone: earneststrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
betrayal
parenthood
work
identity
Places: big city
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild