Not ready to say goodbye! Every year TV series inevitably come to an end, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to let our favorite characters go.
27.04.2022 - 23:17 / deadline.com
When Grace and Frankie drops for its seventh and final season April 29, fans will have to bid farewell to more than just good laughs about yam lubricant and hydraulic-assisted toilet seats. The comedy from Marta Kauffman and Howard J. Morris is one of the last remaining series that features golden agers who actually address golden age topics. For all the talk in Hollywood about inclusion, there remains an astonishing lack of shows that both cast — and provide authentic depictions of — older Americans.
Just one year ago, there were actually two such shows and they both streamed on Netflix — Grace and Frankie, which follows two 80-something roomies whose husbands left them to marry each other, and The Kominsky Method, about a 70-something actor (Michael Douglas) whose close connection with his agent-pal Norman (Alan Arkin) was more relatable than most TV marriages. Kominsky, from the mind of the prolific Chuck Lorre, lasted three seasons and garnered 14 Emmy nominations. G&F, which launched in 2015, has so far earned 13 Emmy noms and stars four actors — Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston — who are all over 80.
“I think it would be hard to sell Grace and Frankie right now,” Kauffman tells Deadline. “It’s a little scary that there may not be more shows with women at a certain age.”
It’s not like Tomlin and Fonda wanted to walk away from their fictitious lives on the beach. Netflix was the one to ultimately pull the plug, but Kauffman says there were no hard feelings. “Shows have a life span,” she says. “We felt like we told stories we wanted to tell. I mean, if there were a circumstance where we wanted to end it before Netflix did, then we would’ve had a very large conversation with Jane and Lily. But
Not ready to say goodbye! Every year TV series inevitably come to an end, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to let our favorite characters go.
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Grace & Frankie is coming to an end. While fans are surely sad to see the mature-leaning scripted series conclude, there is one last surprise viewers can expect as they tune in to catch the final episodes.During an appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden, Grace & Frankie star Jane Fonda teased a high-profile cameo fans will enjoy in the last episodes.“It’s not just that Dolly joins us,” the Oscar-winning actress began, “it’s the way that she is brought into the story that will knock your socks off.” Before she finished sharing, Fonda added, “It is so beautiful and so moving and unique.
Warning: “Grace & Frankie” spoilers ahead.Good heavens!Friday marked the series finale episode drop of Netflix’s golden years comedy “Grace & Frankie” — one of the most successful senior-centered shows on television since “The Golden Girls.”With the series coming to an end after seven seasons, stars Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin have blessed fans with a guest appearance by icon and friend Dolly Parton.The country queen joined her “9 to 5” co-stars for the ending of their beloved show, portraying “Heaven’s Gatekeeper.”The finale sees Fonda and Tomlin’s characters (Grace and Frankie, respectively) party with their friends and family for Frankie’s son Coyote (Ethan Embry) and fiancée Jessica’s (Christine Woods) commitment ceremony. However, while Grace sips away at her signature martini she drops it onto Frankie’s microphone, and fatal electrocution sends the two women straight to the pearly gates.
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Dolly Parton made her long-awaited guest appearance on the series finale -- finally completing the reunion with her friends and co-stars, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin!In the finale, which debuted Friday on Netflix, Parton made her cameo as what else? An angel. She appears in an all-white office building, aka the afterlife, following a mishap during Coyote's wedding which leads to Grace (Fonda) and Frankie (Tomlin) accidentally electrocuting themselves.At first, the pair mistake her for God, with Frankie opining, «You look just like I knew you would!»«I'm not the Almighty,» Parton's character, named Agnes, assures. «Just a working-class angel.
Emily Longeretta SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the final episodes of “Grace and Frankie,” now streaming on Netflix.It’s the end of the road for “Grace and Frankie.” The longest-running Netflix original series dropped its final 12 hours on Friday, bringing the total count to 94 episodes. The comedy, created by Marta Kauffman, followed Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda’s Grace Hanson and Frankie Bergstein who became friends after their husbands revealed they were in love with each other.During the last episode, Sol (Sam Waterston) helped Robert (Martin Sheen) through his memory loss, bringing him back to the hotel where they shared their first kiss in the elevator.
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Grace and Frankie: A Farewell to 7 Seasons with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, the cast and creators reflect on the long-running comedy series about two women who become friends after their husbands leave them for each other. The show first dropped on Netflix in 2015, and has been one of Netflix's most successful comedies. The drops on Friday, April 29.In Netflix's Gracie and Frankie farewell special, and Tomlin discuss a plotline from the third season in which Gracie and Frankie start a vibrator company for women with arthritis to prove that older women have sexual needs like anyone else. "I'm a big fan of vibrators," said.
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