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Severance is one of Apple TV’s best original shows, so season two will definitely be worth the wait… even (especially?) if that wait was partially due to Adam Scott having to film Madame Web.

Season one was released in February 2022, and since then, fans have been anxiously awaiting to return to Lumen to figure out what the heck they are really doing over there. While we don’t know much about season two, we do know it’s coming soon and jam packed with guest stars — and hopefully at least one Music Dance Experience.

Plot

While we don’t know much about the upcoming season, we can assume the story will continue following the aftermath of the rollercoaster first season. After the explosive finale revealed that Mark’s wife is actually alive and works with him at Lumon, season two will likely explore the corrupt inner workings of the company. It was also revealed that Helly’s outie is the daughter of Luman’s CEO, which will no doubt cause a riff between Helly and the others.

As far as the other characters go, hopefully we will get a look at what their outie lives are like — and how they ended up at Lumen.

Cast

The whole gang (and their innie counterparts) are back for season two, including Adam Scott, Britt Lower, Zach Cherry, John Turturro, Patricia Arquette, Dichen Lachman, and Christopher Walken.

Some new faces will also be added into the mix, including Gwendoline Christie, Alia Shawkat, John Noble, and Merritt Wever.

Release Date

We know director and executive producer Ben Stiller is working on it…

…though we don’t have a release date quite yet.

In March, Stiller appeared on the Roommates Show, where he spoke mostly about basketball, but he did give a brief Severance tease. “It’s coming soon and we don’t have an actual date but I’ve been working on the second season of it for a long time, since we had a strike last year. So that cut us off for a while, he said. “We’re going to be shooting until probably like the end of April and it will be coming out sometime after that soon.”

Assuming they finished filming in April, we can expect/hope another update soon, but it seems like late 2024 or early 2025 is a safe bet.

Trailer

There has not been an official trailer yet, but a very brief clip was shown at an Apple event back in 2022. We can expect a real trailer anytime now.

It’s summertime in Bel-Air! (Well, almost). The newly-announced third season of Bel-Air is just a few months away and its set to be focused on Will Smith’s first official summer in Bel Air following his move from Philadelphia to the city in season one. The new season will almost a year and half after season two came to a close following ten episodes that tracked Will’s basketball career, his love life, Carlton’s personal struggles, Phil and Vivian’s career moves, and more. Things will be a bit different now that its summertime, but you can expect the same quality Bel-Air episodes for season three. Here’s what you need to know for the upcoming season.

Release Date

Bel-Air returns for season three on August 15. That will make for almost a year and a half since the season two finale aired on Peacock. New episodes in season three of Bel-Air will air on weekly on Thursdays starting on August 15 with new episodes available to watch at 3am EST/12 AM PST. I season three is like seasons one and two, you can expect ten new episodes for this upcoming season.

Cast

The cast for season three of Bel-Air is expected to stay the same for the most part, but there will be some new additions as revealed by Deadline. Vic Mensa (The Chi) will join to play Quentin while Alycia Pascual-Peña (Moxie, Saved By The Bell) will take on the role of Amira. You can check out the full list of cast members and their roles below.

Main

• Jabari Banks as Will Smith,
• Olly Sholotan as Carlton Banks
• Coco Jones as Hilary Banks
• Adrian Holmes as Philip Banks
• Cassandra Freeman as Vivian Banks
• Akira Akbar as Ashley Banks
• Jimmy Akingbola as Geoffrey Thompson
• Simone Joy Jones as Lisa Wilkes
• Jordan L. Jones as Jazz

Recurring

• April Parker Jones as Viola “Vy” Smith
• SteVonté Hart as Tray Melbert
• Tyler Barnhardt as Connor Satterfield
• Joe Holt as Fred Wilkes
• Charlie Hall as Tyler Laramy
• Jazlyn Martin as Jackie
• Vic Mensa as Quentin
• Alycia Pascual-Peña as Amira

Plot

In a press release for season three of Bel-Air, Peacock shared the official synopsis for the upcoming season. You can read that below.

Season 3 is summer season of Bel-Air! No school. No uniforms. Just summer sizzle. Pools, beach parties, bonfires, fireworks, Juneteenth celebrations and lots of summer lovin’.

Season 3 explores questions like, how do you prove yourself in a world that views you in limited ways? How do you reach beyond your comfort zone to create new opportunities for yourself? How does a family rebuild broken trust?

Bel-Air has always been a show with a strong cultural point of view. In addition to our soapy teen and family stories, this season we’ll have a lot of great discussion on the gentrification happening in South LA and how so many people are capitalizing on the economy at the cost of the community. And this convo will become a backdrop through the season.

Trailer

Peacock has yet to release an official teaser or trailer for season three of of Bel-Air. Stay tuned for it as it should arrive in the coming weeks and months.

Bel-Air Season 3 Episode Schedule

Season three of Bel-Air is expected to have ten episodes. Here is the expected tentative schedule for the new season:

• August 15: Episode 1
• August 22: Episode 2
• August 29: Episode 3
• August 26: Episode 4
• September 5: Episode 5
• September 12: Episode 6
• September 19: Episode 7
• September 26: Episode 8
• October 3: Episode 9
• October 10: Episode 10

How To Watch Bel-Air Season 3

New episodes in season three of Bel-Air will be available weekly on Peacock on Thursdays at 3am EST/12am PST.

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‘Bel-Air’ season 3 debuts on Peacock on August 15. Seasons 1 and 2 of ‘Bel-Air’ are available now to stream on Peacock.

Walton Goggins and Timothy Olphyant’s characters dug coal together, for crying out loud. They went through decades of life together, and the actors lived those moments for six seasons. It was an intense time, for sure, and especially with the high-pressure schedule of a Hollywood shoot, it’s hard to imagine having a smooth ride every moment of the gig. Still, this duo occupies a soft spot in Justified fans’ minds, so yes, there was a bit of an uproar when Goggins revealed to The Independent that they “weren’t talking” by the end of the series and did not 110% swoon in each other’s footsteps for every moment of the FX production.

Fast forward to Olyphant — who had only recently merrily posed with Goggins near the beach in Thailand (where both HBO’s The White Lotus and FX’s Alien have been shooting) — having no inkling that this talk was afoot but did (laughingly) tell Vanity Fair that, sure, “We’d get really frustrated with each other.” This would only be the case because Walton tended to tell the writers that Boyd Crowder “would never do that,” and that generated some finale fiction. Everything was water under the holler, so to speak, but of course, this turned into a controversy because people love Raylan and Boyd and want everything to be alright.

The public conversation has now been kicked back to Goggins, who seemed “perplexed,” according to LA Times:

Said Goggins: “It’s so crazy. There is no feud.”

Pausing a few moments, he continued: “The ending of that show was hard emotionally, and people had different ways of dealing with it. It was a difficult goodbye and there were moments when we didn’t see eye to eye. But I would expect that from any long experience you care about. How can you go through an experience like that and not have a disagreement?

“The truth is … Tim is a dear friend of mine, and someone I love like a brother. I respect him as an artist and an actor, probably more than anyone. He’s still untapped at what he has to offer. I love the man. And I know he loves me.”

This surely only became a thing because people care, which just goes to show that, yes, we do need Raylan to chase Boyd in a second season of Justified: City Primeval. But yes, these two are just fine, y’all.

(Via LA Times)

It wasn’t the most-watched sketch of Saturday Night Live season 49, but there was a lot of conversation about “Hooters Waitress.” While making her SNL hosting debut, Sydney Sweeney played — you’ll never believe it — a waitress at Hooters who makes thousands of dollars in tips even though she’s not good at her job. The sketch became a whole… thing. But the Barbarella star was cool with the concept, as cast member Chloe Fineman explained on a recent episode of Dana Carvey and David Spade‘s Fly on the Wall podcast.

“Sydney Sweeney, I pitched her the Hooters idea, where I was like, maybe work at Hooters, and we’re counting tips,” the Megalopolis actress said, according to Decider. “I get $20 and you’re like, cool, I made like $40,000. And then she DM’d me to write it, and then we got in so much trouble for, like, sexualizing Sydney Sweeney. But it was your pervert over here!”

Spade and Carvey were fans of Sweeney and Fineman’s work. “It was so f*cking funny,” Spade said, while Carvey compared it to the “Beavis and Butt-Head” sketch. “Some of that silliness is just the way the world is,” he said. “That’s why ‘Beavis and Butt-Head’ hit so hard. That Hooters sketch. I think we’re just in the mood for madness.”

You can listen to the Fly on the Wall podcast below.

(Via Decider)

Glen Powell may have turned down a leading role in the Jurassic Park franchise, but the man is still consistently putting his body at risk for our entertainment, and that has to count for something!

Powell and his co-star Adria Arjona had an unfortunate bathtub-related incident while filming Richard Linklater’s upcoming action-comedy Hit Man which caused them to both break out in a “crazy” rash. That run in happened to be in a bath filled with the preferred soap of baby ducks, Dawn.

Arjona told Variety the bath was filled with Dawn during one of their sex scenes. “That strips you of all your oils of your skin. That’s used for baby ducks when there’s an oil spill, for God’s sake,” Arjona said. “And it’s on this bathtub and we soaked in this bathtub for an hour and I get out of the tub and all of a sudden I dry myself and I can’t bend my knees because I have no oils.”

Hit Man stars Powell as a phony Hit Man who is hired by Arjona’s character to kill her husband. Unfortunately, Powell also had no oils. “That was the day that we filmed all of our sex scenes – all of them with a crazy rash,” the actress admitted, “We were both in so much pain. We would just die laughing, ‘How much makeup do you have on your ass right now?’ I was like, ‘So much, it’s not even funny.’”

It wasn’t funny, but it sure looked fun! The actress added, “We had fun because it was so funny. We were both in pain with makeup all over this rash and it was funny.” Even though it sounds painful, it’s better than the falling off of a cliff on the set of Anyone But You. Who knew romance was so dangerous!!!

Hit Man will be released in select theaters on May 24 before making its streaming debut on Netflix on June 7.

We’ve seen some moving America’s Got Talent stories before, but a recent viral audition absolutely requires a tissue warning. I tried to steel myself in preparation when I saw the “Admit it, we were *all* in tears after this” caption on the Facebook share of it, but I failed.

In a video that’s been shared more than 95,000 times, the “Britain’s Got Talent” audition shows two tiny little girls onstage with their grandmother. They introduce themselves as “Cally” (age 4) and “Savannah” (age 3) and “Nanny” (their “daddy’s mummy”) then the girls share that they are there to surprise their dad.

Dad—also known as Nick Edwards—is sitting in the audience. He thought the family was there to watch the audition on a fun outing; he had no idea that they had arranged a surprise audition for him, so when his girls and mom showed up on stage, he wondered what was going on.

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A “Britain’s Got Talent” spokesperson explained to the Daily Mail how they got Edwards mic’d up without giving away the surprise.

“When Nick entered the Palladium auditorium during ‘BGT’ auditions, he was approached to be part of our ‘gogglebox’ audience and told he would be mic’d up so we could capture his reactions throughout the day as he sat in the audience,” they said. “He was totally unsuspecting. We did this so we could mic him up without him suspecting a thing.”

As Edwards tried to figure out what his mom and daughters were doing on stage, Edwards’ mother explained to the judges and the audience that he sings a special song to his girls. She said they wanted him to come up and sing it. Naturally, not being prepared for an audition, Edwards was stunned. But the judges sent him backstage to “grab a glass of water” so he could compose himself and get ready.

“They gave me some time to warm up—about 45 minutes in total,” Edwards told This Morning. “They gave me my guitar my family brought down on the day, they [producers] said this is the song we want you to sing because we’d seen it on your Instagram.”

The song is an emotional doozy, especially if you’re a parent. “It’s a song I’ve felt quite attached to so I sing it a lot around the house,” Edwards told the judges before he started to sing. Once you hear it, you’ll see why he joked about trying to keep from crying while he sang it.

Lovely voice. Beautiful song. Adorable little girls. Not a dry eye in the house.

Tissue, seriously. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

The fact that Edwards was able to pull off that audition with less than an hour of preparation was quite impressive. He told This Morning what he was thinking during that prep time.

“If I go out I’ve got two options here, I either go out and try to own it or I come out and it all crumbles…” he said. “The whole thing just went so quickly. I do remember playing and in a way my fingers started to get a bit jelly, I remember thinking ‘this is going to be a big moment for you.’ I don’t want to stuff it up.”

Stuff it up he did not. What a lovely performance, and what lucky little girls to have a daddy who shares his love for them in such a beautiful and creative way.

This article originally appeared on 04.22.22

Netflix’s Cobra Kai will roundhouse kick back into the dojo, finally, for a final and sixth season coming soon. This will happen sooner than expected but with a twist: the season will be a three-part package to deliver as proper an ending as possible. Remember, however, that “Cobra Kai will never die.”

That means that no matter what happens, The Karate Kid universe has received a rare example of a revival that matches the strength of the original project while always respecting what came before. Few people, if anyone, also would have expected this show to turn into such a juggernaut back when this was YouTube Red underdog show. Now, it’s hard to imagine not looking forward to another season of karate beefs. Let’s consider what is to come before this dojo closes for good.

Plot

Netflix has managed to regularly stoke the flames of curiosity about precisely what will add up to “the biggest season, the baddest season, the final season.” Filming is complete, however, and co-showrunner Jon Hurwitz delivered a formal farewell to Atlanta earlier this week to mark the occasion.

Additionally, Hurwitz dodged questions about whether Terry Silver or John Kreese will return, but he did reveal that the Miyagiverse is about to expand in ways that we’ve never seen before now:

“Season 6 expands the Karate Kid/Cobra Kai universe more than the first 5 seasons combined. The world building has been truly exhilarating. Excited for everyone to see the diversity of scenes we’ve been filming episode to episode. We’re going to so many new places in the Miyagiverse.”

With that said, every signal thus far is that Terry Silver is finally done and dusted (that crane kick is mostly cinematic, but — let’s get real — he probably can’t come back from that full circle moment in a narrative sense). Kreese, however, has freed himself from prison and even did so while on the cusp of exoneration from how Silver framed him. Surely, he’ll stay free, yes? Somebody has to try and resurrect that titular dojo, but that remains hypothetical. What appears to be more set in stone is that (as Ralph Macchio previously suggested to us) an international competition will be on the table:

“They’ve set up the international element of it, they’ve set up the master Kim in Korea. They set up Kreese, and they also set up that everything’s going back to normal and they’ve finally succeeded. But in a soap opera, as Cobra Kai is a karate soap opera, when one door closes, there’s always more that will open. There’s certainly room for that.”

That jibes with a very brief description (and no clear mention of whether Miyagi-do has fully absorbed Eagle Fang for good) provided by Netflix:

Picking up with Cobra Kai eliminated from the Valley, our senseis and students must decide if and how they will compete in the Sekai Taikai – the world championships of karate.

How will Johnny Lawrence juggle fatherhood (again) while preparing his students for global karate domination? Perhaps a more compelling question is this: will Kenny react to the collapse of his dojo and tweak his personality to go from being bullied and bullying to a well-adjusted competitor? And on an equally emotional note: will Eli “Hawk” Moskowitz’s hair have grown back before the start of this season? Speaking of Hawk, actor Jacob Bertrand jokingly wanted to see his character team up with Kreese for “some illegal ring of some sort.” Actually, I want to see that happen because, c’mon, this is a karate soap opera. Anything is possible.

Also, even if there’s no crossover to be found in the upcoming franchise movie with Jackie Chan and Ralph Maccho, Cobra Kai proved that it’s able to deliver a superior form of nostalgia by infusing a project with a cast of characters who are irresistible to younger generations. That will remain invaluable.

Cast

This show wouldn’t exist without Ralph Macchio and William Zabka as Daniel and Johnny Lawrence, respectively. Expect to see Mary Mouser as Samantha, Peyton List as Tori, Jacob Bertrand as Eli/Hawk, Xolo Maridueña as Miguel, Griffin Santopietro as Anthony, Tanner Buchanan as Robby, Gianni DeCenzo as Demetri, Dallas Dupree Young as Kenny. Courtney Henggeler will also return Amanda with Vanessa Rubio as Carmen, and we don’t yet know if there will be a Stingray (Paul Walter Hauser, who’s been very busy lately) onboard.

Did you want official enemies? Big Bad Terry Silver is likely outta the game, which means that (sadly) we won’t be seeing Thomas Ian Griffith, but Kreese (Martin Kove) is fresh outta prison, and I’m not sure how he will evade authorities, but he will surely be stirring up chaos.

Release Date

The first third of the season will stream on July 8.

Trailer

Netflix will likely be dropping a first trailer soon, but until then, this date-announcement video really wants us to believe that Kreese is back.

If reports are true, Turner may be losing out on NBA media rights sooner rather than later. This would, unfortunately, mean the end of Inside the NBA, the legendary studio show that has served as a model for pre- and postgame shows over the last few decades. The future of the show in the event Turner loses a spot in the next media rights deal — Amazon, ESPN, and NBC are the trio that are reportedly in the drivers seats right now — is unclear.

There are reasons for optimism on the Turner side of things, namely the reported matching rights Warner Bros. Discovery apparently have. But whether or not these are triggered — and whether or not they would be valid — are both huge questions here. And unsurprisingly, Charles Barkley is not happy about this entire situation or how it’s impacting the people with whom he works, which he explained to Dan Patrick on his radio show.

After making what is absolutely not a coincidental statement about Mercedes — “Mercedes is a great car, but don’t buy it if you can’t afford it” — Barkley addressed a question Patrick asked about morale.

“Morale sucks, plain and simple,” Barkley said. “I just feel so bad for the people I work with, Dan. These people have families, and I just really feel bad for them right now. These people I work with, they screwed this thing up, clearly, and we don’t have zero idea what’s gonna happen. I don’t feel good, I’m not gonna lie, especially when they came out yesterday and said we bought college football — I was like, well, damn, they coulda used that football to buy the NBA.”

Barkley, of course, is referencing TNT’s agreement to sublicense College Football Playoff games from ESPN for the next few years, which got announced on Wednesday, the same day a report hit the internet which indicated that the NBA is moving towards written agreements on its new media rights deal with Amazon, ESPN, and NBC.

Patrick then threw an idea past Barkley: What if he teamed up with his three co-hosts, launched a production company, did Inside the NBA on their own, and sold that to whatever network they want? It’s an idea that has been floated recently and compared to Pat McAfee’s arrangement for his show with ESPN, and Barkley seems to be on board.

“I’ve talked to the guys about everybody signs with my production company, cause I have my own production company, and I would love to do that if we lose it,” Barkley explained. “Actually, somebody had suggested that to me, to be honest with you, on the internet. Why don’t Charles Barkley sign these three guys, four guys total, it’s his production company, and sell it? I’m like, that’s a great idea. But like I said, we’re just sitting back, waiting on these people to figure out what they’re gonna do.”

Barkley then made a wine analogy to explain how “these clowns I work for” have taken “the best studio show” and found a way to devalue it. And when Patrick pointed out that Barkley was angry about this, the Hall of Fame inductee got sentimental.

“I am,” Barkley said. “You know, Dan, it’s so interesting, I’ve been spending a lot of time with the crew lately, I’ve actually been with these guys where I’ve spent time with their — they bring their newborns in, they bring their kids in, they come in like when they were in high school, and now they’ve graduated from college. That’s how long. Ernie’s been there 32 years, Kenny’s been there 27, I’ve been there 24, but think about that. Some of these people I work with, they brought their newborns in to say hello to us, they brought them in in high school when they graduated, and now they’ve already graduated from college.

“So, yeah, I’m angry at people — they’re part of my family, to be honest with you,” Barkley said. “And I feel bad for those guys…”

Patrick stopped Barkley to ask about how TNT dropped the ball here, to which Barkley referred back to David Zaslav’s infamous comments about how Warner Bros. Discovery doesn’t need the NBA a few years back.

“I think that probably pissed Adam [Silver] off,” Barkley said. “I don’t know that, but I’m saying, when we merged — that’s the first thing that our boss said, we don’t need the NBA. Well, he don’t need it, but the rest of the people — me, Kenny, Shaq, and Ernie, and the people who work there, we need it. So, it just sucks right now.”

CBS has made some bold decisions with a juggernaut that has served them well for (almost) decades. NCIS has been running since 1995 and has almost completely experienced a cast overhaul (including Mark Harmon as Leroy Jethro Gibbs) since the original crowd. Some of those actors, however, will soon be back. This does not include Pauley Perrette, who had beef with Mark Harmon and recently clarified that she will never return as Abby Sciuto. However, two new spin offs will surface in the near future. That includes NCIS: Tony And Ziva, starring original actors Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo as Anthony DiNozzo and Ziva David.

Then there’s NCIS: Origins, which will (as its name suggests) travel back in time to when Gibbs was getting his feet wet in the United States Naval Criminal Investigative Service. This series was nearly guaranteed to be a home run — after all, this franchise has already proven itself with spin offs because NCIS began as a spin off of JAG — although a few complicating factors have developed. Let’s discuss what to expect from this prequel series.

Plot

The official description gets the ball rolling: “Gibbs starts his career as a newly minted special agent at the fledgling NIS Camp Pendleton office where he forges his place on a gritty, ragtag team led by NCIS legend Mike Franks.” The prequel will launch in 1991, about 12 years before the initial events of NCIS‘ first season. Franks was originally portrayed by Muse Watson in the original show, and expect casting to be of great interest for that character. We will talk in a moment about who will be portraying young Gibbs, although we must also note a continuity error within the timeline. Has Gibbs has been on the NCIS career path since 1984 or 1991?

And will that discrepancy be addressed? We shall see. Also, here’s a promise from CBS Entertainment President Amy Reisenbach, who suggests that we will learn new tidbits about the experiences that molded Gibbs’ personality:

“Viewers can look forward to Mark Harmon returning to CBS to narrate the complex and mysterious backstory of Leroy Jethro Gibbs’ early years in NCIS: Origins, which will build on the rich legacy of this character while reintroducing fan-favorite characters and meeting new ones.”

Mark Harmon is not only narrating but also executive producing along with his son, Sean Harmon, who portrayed younger Gibbs on NCIS but opted not to star in this series. Will we see the younger Donald “Ducky” Mallard (the late David MacCallum), who also appeared in JAG before NCIS debuted? This seems likely, although casting has not revealed a young Ducky yet. Give them time. As well, NCIS has spent time delving into Gibbs’ complicated inner world, which included a not-so-warm relationship with his dad, Jackson (a character who has been confirmed for this prequel series). Gibbs also survived his wife and daughter, so we might eventually see those relationships develop as well.

A current controversy for this spin off comes in from an unexpected direction. That would be the recent cancellation of NCIS: Hawai’i. Viewers were left with a bad taste in their mouth after a cliffhanger finale ended the series due to “financials,” and some fans wondered aloud if this was a move to clear the runway for Origins and Tony And Ziva. The timing is awkward, for sure, and now, we might never know what happened to LL Cool J’s character (Sam from NCIS: LA, which ended in 2023). Some of those same upset fans vowed not to watch Origins, so we will see if the franchise has lost goodwill and can still continue prospering with new chapters.

Cast

As noted, Mark Harmon will narrate his character’s previous investigations, and Sean Harmon will not return to the screen as younger Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Instead, he will be portrayed by Austin Stowell. If you squint hard, this seems believable, but perhaps the resemblance will be stronger in motion.

According to Deadline, other cast members include Robert Taylor (as Leroy’s dad, Jackson Gibbs, long after Ralph Waite portrayed the character on NCIS), Daniel Bellamy (as ambitious Special Agent Granville “Granny” Dawson), and Caleb Martin Foote (as golden-boy Special Agent Benjamin “Randy” Randolf)

Release Date

This spin off should arrive sooner rather than later. NCIS: Origins is slated for CBS’ 2024-24 schedule, so they want this puppy out there with a full season and ideally more to come.

Trailer

Zero new footage exists here, but consider yourself teased:

The medical community coined the term “geriatric pregnancy” to differentiate anyone who becomes pregnant after the age of 35, mostly as a safety measure. But while there are some age-related risks that come from having a baby later in life, many argue that the label is misleading and outdated…not to mention offensive.

Still, it’s enough for some to wonder if they’re somehow too late when it comes to starting a family.

That was certainly the case for a man who sought advice on the “Millennial” subreddit asking if he and his wife were “dumb” for changing their minds about having kids in their late 30s.

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“My wife (34 f) and I (37 m) have suddenly found ourselves having the kid conversation a lot after 12 years together as ‘childfree,’” he wrote, saying that he could see them both “trying” in about a year to 18 months. By then he’ll be 38.

He went on to explain that a lot his childhood was spent moving around and feeling neglected as a result of his parents getting divorced, all of which made him not feel “stable” enough to have kids of his own.

But now, he and his wife are debt free and have stable income, setting a solid foundation to start a new chapter. But still, they wonder if it’s too late.

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“Now I’m staring down the reality that the youngest I’ll be if we have kids is 38. I don’t want to be a geriatric dad, but I don’t feel like I’m old? I already have back and neck issues, though. I have friends with a 16-year-old FFS! Do I want to be 56 with an 18-year-old? Anyone have kids late that maybe can shed some perspective?”

People were quick to offer insight.

“My dad was 38 when I was born, I’m 40. He’s a healthy, active 78 and is a fully present granddad. We had our first at 30 and were oddly the youngest parents in our friend group and among our kids peers at school,” one person wrote.

Another added, “My dad was 38 when I was born, and 56 when I was 18. And guess what? We’re now 71 and 33 and still go biking, sailing, and bar hopping. All is possible! :)”

A third shared:

“I’m 36 with a 3 yr old. Met a woman at the playground yesterday who is 42 with a 4 yr old. I personally am glad that it panned out this way for me, bc my spouse and I are in a much better place relationship wise, financially, and professionally to take optimum care for our kiddo. If it had happened sooner, we would have struggled and I probably wouldn’t be where I am today career wise.

There is absolutely pros and cons to both, but 38 is not too old. Hell my parents had my youngest brother when they were both 48 and he’s a great kid. Just because your path deviates from the norm doesn’t mean it’s wrong or you missed your chance.”

Another suspected that the man’s fears had “nothing to do with age” and were really just the regular parenting anxiety. The OP replied, “Fair…I thought maybe it was financial, but when we ‘solved’ that it persists…”

And that’s when another person broke down how parenting is a logic-defying “leap of faith” at any age, so anxiety is just part of the process.

“Part of the problem is that no one can really prepare you for what it’s like to be a parent. You just can’t fully understand what it’s like until you have a kid…The best descriptions of parenthood that I got before having a kid was 1) that it’s both the best and worst thing that will ever happen to you and 2) that it’s like dying and being reborn as a completely new person. Parenthood isn’t like your old life plus a kid. It is a totally different life,” they wrote.

“We had kids late and as far as that goes it’s been fine so far. Biggest issues for us have been that dealing with both the sleep deprivation during the baby years and the constant illness in the daycare and school age years would probably have been easier in our 20s and 30s but I don’t think those are really easy for parents of any age.

There’s no real wrong or right answer in this decision. Whatever you choose it will be the best choice for you.”

Lastly, someone suggested that if they were wanting to have kids, to act now, as “there’s no sense in kicking the can any further.” Apparently, that’s what the OP’s wife keeps telling him.

Bottom line: having a baby earlier in adulthood is by no means an inherently superior choice to waiting until later. And no matter what age it happens, you’ll never feel 100% ready for such a huge transition. Make the choice that works best for you. Forget the rest.