Midlife women are, in fact, the best characters on TV right now – flawed but powerful, sexy and well aware of their best attributes, as well as their limitations. With Somebody Somewhere recently wrapping a well-received first season and renewed for a second, and with Better Things underway on its fifth season, it"s clear that it"s time to centre – and celebrate – them far more than we have, and to tell their too-little-told stories.