Sharon Horgan’s ‘Youth’ finds the funny in turning fifty

DUBAI: The premise of Irish actor, writer and comedian Sharon Horgan’s latest show, “Youth,” now streaming on OSN in the region, is a simple one. Horgan plays Alex, a 50-something divorcee stuck firmly in the sandwich generation, struggling to balance the needs of her wayward university-age son Ruari (a convincing Aran Murphy), with those of her ageing parents — her mother has diabetes and her father has dementia, while still holding down her job as a literary agent and trying to re-enter the da