Thirty Years Later, 'Thirtynothing' Takes Aging To The Internet.

Thirtynothing: (n) - Someone having achieved 30 years of age and not much else.

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Catch up on all 6 episodes of thirtynothing at funnyordie.com/thirtynothing, facebook.com/thirtynothing and youtube.com/thirtynothing.

Look forward to Season 2 next year.

Thirtysomething to Thirtynothing

This fall, Thirtysomething, the show that brought Baby Boomers to prime-time and set a new bar for realism in television, itself turns 30. The Emmy-winning series, airing on ABC from 1987-1993, was a heavy-handed effort to reach out to a generation of self-indulgent, whining yuppies and grab their disposable income. It was a huge success.

Now, three decades later, thirtynothing, a digital comedy from and for a new generation of not-yet-forty-year-olds, carries the torch, sparing the melodrama and hilariously cutting to the core of modern adulthood, or in this case, lack thereof. Where its namesake examined the issues of its day: postfeminist men, interfaith marriage, ethics in advertising, cancer and the ethics of being gay, thirtynothing stakes out its own ground delving into the modern zeitgeist and phenomena like weed moms, dad- bods and butt-chugging.

The independent comedy, from a group of long- suffering Hollywood assistants-turned-writers-and- producers, pulls from their own experiences trying and failing to establish themselves —like hitting the ground running with an appearance on Oprah before ultimately resorting to selling drugs to more successful friends to make rent. As a result, the show is a brutally honest portrayal of what it means to be a modern adult, or at the very least, a modern person of adult age in a world where the institutions we’ve come to rely on — including adulthood itself — have begun to crumble around us.

The six-episode first season was produced at network broadcast quality for only a few hundred dollars, has amassed thousands of online followers and made fans of numerous comedians and producers. The show is also staking out new ground, working with Leafly, the largest cannabis website in the world, with over 10 million monthly visitors and 40 million page views across its website and mobile applications.

Catch up on all 6 episodes of thirtynothing at funnyordie.com/thirtynothing, facebook.com/thirtynothing and youtube.com/thirtynothing.

Look forward to Season 2 early next year.