| Genre: | Reality |
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| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Num Seasons: | 2 |
| Num Episodes: | 21 |
| Runtime: | 42 minutes |
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| Channel: | TLC |
| Last Aired: | present |
MILF Manor is an American reality television series that premiered January 15, 2023, on TLC.[1] The first season of the show featured eight single women between the ages of 40 and 60 living in a villa in Mexico to pursue romantic relationships with eight single men several decades younger. In the first season, the show focuses on the men in question being the women's sons.
A second season premiered on April 28, 2024. [2] The premise shifted slightly; the single women were pursued by younger men and their fathers.[3]
Eight pairs of mothers and sons travel to a villa in Mexico to look for love. Upon arrival, the contestants are told that the sixteen contestants were to romantically pursue each other. The announcement is a surprise to the contestants; one contestant, April, stated that she thought her son would be on a separate retreat instead of in her dating pool.[4]
The contestants perform challenges each episode. In the first episode, the blindfolded women have to identify their son by feeling the men's shirtless torsos, and the winner of the challenge receives a night in one of the suites with a hot tub.[5] Each mother-son pair shares a room. In the second episode, the contestants guess each other's deepest sex secrets, and one of the women reveals that she has had sex with her son's best friend.[6] The fourth episode introduces elimination to the program, as one mother-son duo is kicked off, and the fifth episode introduces a new mother-son duo (Lisa/Ryan S) to take their place.
The show's title refers to the acronym "MILF", meaning "Mother I'd Like to Fuck", though the show's definition of MILF leans closer to the idea of a cougar, in which an older woman actively pursues younger men, whereas the term "MILF" only implies the sexual attractiveness of the woman and not her own romantic/sexual tendencies.
The second season takes place in a lakefront chalet[7] and instead features the younger men (ages 21 to 27) competing against their own fathers (ages 51 to 57) for the same pool of women.[8]
| Charlene DeCicco | 46 | Harrison Bock | 23 | They live in Los Angeles and previously lived in Hammonton, New Jersey.[9] Charlene works in the hospitality industry. Harrison is a college football player and a former male entertainer. | |
| Shannan Diggs | 51 | Ryan Jovan | 30 | Shannan is an event planner from Atlanta who was married for 18 years.[10] Ryan worked in social media marketing and now is pursuing a career in music. | |
| Kelle Mortensen | 51 | Joey Buford | 20 | Kelle lives in Orange County and works as a real estate broker, fitness coach, and a self-proclaimed "Disco Mommy." She has six children including Joey, who is a bartender and aspiring real estate agent.[11] | |
| April Marie Watson | 44 | Ricky Snyder | 26 | April is an insurance representative and an event planner[12] and Ricky works for the United States Postal Service. Both live in Detroit. | |
| Stefany Johnson | 47 | Billy | 28 | Stefany is a paralegal and realtor. She moved from Lima to Los Angeles when she was 8. Billy is pursuing a career in real estate and always dates older women.[13] | |
| SoYoung | 51 | Jimmy Kristensen | 26 | SoYoung works as a surgical nurse who specializes in heart surgery and lives outside of New Orleans. Jimmy is a model and actor. Previously, he was in the army. | |
| Pola Mochon | 48 | Jose Mizrahi | 28 | Pola is a former ballerina who owns a gym in Miami. Her husband died in a car accident when her children were young.[14] She is from Mexico and prefers to speak Spanish. Her son Jose works with her in the fitness industry and also is an actor and television host. | |
| April Jayne | 60 | Gabriel Jayne | 23 | April Jayne is a personal trainer whose fiancé died in 2022. Gabriel is in a rock band with his brother and father. Both live in Los Angeles. | |
| Lisa Wilcox | 59 | Ryan Sherman | 26 | Lisa is an actress best known for her role as Alice Johnson in the A Nightmare On Elm Street films and Ryan is a software engineer. |
| Barby | 45 | Barby is a former stripper who currently works as a marketing executive.[15] She is originally from Mexico City. | |
| Christina | 46 | Christina is a public relations executive who was married for twenty years.[16] | |
| Crystal | 48 | Crystal is a makeup artist. She has four sons, one of whom was killed in a shootout.[17] | |
| Jami | 51 | Jami is a dance instructor who has been divorced twice.[18] | |
| Kelly Mac | 59 | Kelly is a pilates instructor[19] who immigrated from Vietnam during the Fall of Saigon.[20] | |
| Lannette | 50 | Lannette is an account manager.[21] | |
| Rebecca | 48 | Rebecca is a fitness model and insurance agent. | |
| Shauna | 44 | Shauna is an artist who was married for eighteen years. |
| Father | Age | Son | Age | Description | |
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| Anthony | 54 | Joey | 21 | Anthony owns an Italian restaurant. Joey is an event promoter.[22] | |
| Darren | 57 | Sam | 24 | Darren is a recent divorcée who sells private jets.[23] | |
| Ashley | 54 | Jacob | 23 | Ashley is an athletics coach and former professional rugby player. Jacob is a former semi-professional cricket player. Both are from England.[24] | |
| Stacy | 54 | Miles | 24 | Stacy is an entrepreneur. Miles is a vegan chef and personal trainer. The two have a distant relationship.[25] | |
| Michael | 51 | Christopher | 27 | Chris is a professional MMA fighter.[26] |
Naomi Fry wrote in The New Yorker that MILF Manor "might be a new low for reality TV, perhaps even a rock bottom", stating that the show's premise was "only slightly less outlandish than 'MILF Island,' featured on NBC's 30 Rock, back in 2008."[27]
Daniela Neumann, the managing director of the London-based production company behind the idea for the show, said that she does not understand "what all the fuss is about" and that the series is about "female empowerment, erasing the double standard stigma of older women dating younger men, that everyone on the show had a good time, and that every man is someone's son."[28]
The show currently has a 14% rating on Rotten Tomatoes,[29] where critics describe it as "psychological torture" and "Freudian Horror".