Younger’s Liza Miller, the latent publishing darling played with youthful exuberance by Tony winner Sutton Foster. When Younger premiered in 2015, Liza was facing a triple-whammy crisis for a woman of a certain age.
She was newly divorced, experiencing empty nest syndrome with the daughter she stayed home to raise off to college, and facing ageism and sexism in the publishing industry she’d left nearly 20 years earlier to raise her child.
As the story goes, Liza pretends to be a millennial to finally land a job as an assistant to Miriam Shor’s marketing diva Diana at the show's storied Empirical Press.Along the journey, Liza lands in Brooklyn with her lesbian best friend, Maggie (Debi Mazar), becomes a publishing powerhouse, comes out about.