Grace & Frankie
05-11-2015, 03:17 PM
Is anybody else watching the new Netflix series Grace & Frankie? It is pretty good IMHO.
The premise: Two long-married couples (played by Sam Watterson & Lily Tomlin, and Jane Fonda & Martin Sheen). The husbands are law partners, and in the first episode they tell their wives they have been having an affair for 20 years, and are leaving their wives for each other!
The wives could not be more different: Tomlin's character is a pot-smoking earth-mother type, very direct and transparent, while Fonda plays a society wife type, who has always done what she thought she was "Supposed to". They have always endured each other for the sake of their husbands' business and friendship, but are now forced to support each other through their common loss.
The husbands are pretty believable as a gay couple, without going the over-the-top Mitch-Cam or Albert-Armond route for laughs. Tomlin's character has shades of Edina Monsoon (from her outfits and flamboyant practice of new age religious rituals) but is ultimately the most sympathetic of the four.
I've watched two so far and think it is brilliant. Curious if anybody else has checked it out.
The premise: Two long-married couples (played by Sam Watterson & Lily Tomlin, and Jane Fonda & Martin Sheen). The husbands are law partners, and in the first episode they tell their wives they have been having an affair for 20 years, and are leaving their wives for each other!
The wives could not be more different: Tomlin's character is a pot-smoking earth-mother type, very direct and transparent, while Fonda plays a society wife type, who has always done what she thought she was "Supposed to". They have always endured each other for the sake of their husbands' business and friendship, but are now forced to support each other through their common loss.
The husbands are pretty believable as a gay couple, without going the over-the-top Mitch-Cam or Albert-Armond route for laughs. Tomlin's character has shades of Edina Monsoon (from her outfits and flamboyant practice of new age religious rituals) but is ultimately the most sympathetic of the four.
I've watched two so far and think it is brilliant. Curious if anybody else has checked it out.
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