Movies & TV 's Unrealistic 30s Personal Finance: Expectations vs Reality | SATC, New Girl & More

Being in your 30s used to mean that your life, finances, and job felt stable -- but things are often quite different nowadays. Movies & TV love showing the more secure side of things, but in recent years we've begun to see more characters on screen working to survive their very unstable 30s. Sometimes the lives of characters on screen in their 30s on screen can feel hilariously out of reach, but thankfully in recent years we’ve also started to get many more films and shows that are willing to get honest about what it’s like to be in your 30s now (the good and the less than stellar…) So what do movies and tv get right and wrong about life and finances in your 30s today?


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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:58 When being in your 30s meant being stable in life...
02:59 The misery of modern job culture
04:29 One big thing weighing so many people down
05:29 Feeling young (& paying to keep looking that way)
07:29 Giant tv homes (no one can afford anymore)
09:03 The price of parenting
10:41 Making the most of our 30s (even if they don't go how we thought)



The Take was created by Debra Minoff & Susannah McCullough
This video was narrated by Charly Bivona, produced/written by Jessica Babineaux, and edited by Travis Martin


Films & shows mentioned in this video:
New Girl
Sex and the City
Insecure
Superstore
Gilmore Girls
Friends
The Mindy Project
Fleabag
Broad City
The Worst Person in the World
The Brady Bunch
Mad Men
Tick, Tick... Boom!
Bridesmaids
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Bewitched
How I Met Your Mother
Bridget Jones's Diary
Search Party
Seinfeld
Set It Up
Girls
Up In The Air
Before Sunset
The Wolf of Wall Street
Knocked Up
Ingrid Goes West
Waiting to Exhale
You're The Worst
Working Moms
The Lost Daughter
This Is Us
Submarine