Grace and Frankie

2022 - 4 - 29

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Grace and Frankie Recap: Dolly Parton, Death and New Beginnings ... (TVLine)

'Grace and Frankie' delivered a heartfelt series finale (and a long-awaited '9 to 5' reunion) — read our recap, and grade it in our poll.

When Mallory asked about why she was let go, Brianna lied to make her feel better and claimed it was because she cancelled the eye butter. No, not even when she briefly turned her back to the pair and allowed them to do just that. Mallory figured out what Brianna was trying to do the day of the fake wedding and thanked her sister for being there for her. Realizing this, Grace insisted that she and Frankie weren’t good on their own, and Agnes assured her that she’d be back soon enough. When she and Grace first thought their lives were over, she only had to deal with a broken heart after her husband left her. Plus, she would never do a thing like tell them to take the stamp that’s sitting on the right side of her desk and mark Frankie’s paperwork with “return” as well. Grace told her there’d been a mistake, that she had to go back, and Agnes agreed. Frankie admitted that she was afraid to get sick and be unable to do the things that made her herself. Both women fell from the stage and awoke in a white void with white couches and flowers. After three days of not talking to each other, Grace returned to the house and inquired about Frankie’s funeral. Meanwhile, Grace was upset that Frankie was so eager to die. She even accused Brianna of being miserable and jealous of her success.

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Grace and Frankie Say Goodbye in a Hilarious, Yet Poignant Final ... (Paste Magazine)

We always knew it would come to this; after all, Grace (Jane Fonda), Frankie (Lily Tomlin), Robert (Martin Sheen), and Sol (Sam Waterston) are octogenarians now ...

This final season will make you to turn to your Grace or Frankie and hold them even tighter. Some of the subplots, particularly those of the grown Hanson and Bergstein children, feel a tad underdeveloped. Beyond the realities of growing older, Season 7B also allows the characters—Grace, especially—to confront past trauma and the way it’s affected their current relationships. Grace and Frankie confronts the challenges of growing older, as your body and mind don’t work the way they once did, but also celebrates the rich lives of our protagonists. Vaughn perfectly walks the line of being the empathetic son of two hippies and an anxiety-ridden Type A eldest child, convinced he needs to do everything just so to keep those around him happy. Part of what makes Grace and Frankie so great is how low stakes the characters’ hijinks feel—even if they happen to be smuggling drugs across the border—until suddenly there’s far more at risk.

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Marta Kauffman Breaks Down Emotional 'Grace & Frankie' Finale ... (Variety)

Here, Kauffman speaks to Variety about how difficult it was to wrap up the beloved show after seven seasons, creating a “9 to 5” reunion with Dolly Parton and ...

Of course, we have to talk about the one and only Dolly Parton and getting the “9 to 5” group back together. My favorite moment came when we were going to take a picture at the very end and she looked at me. But we’re really proud of what we did and we’re really proud of 94 episodes. And then, once we got back, we did not realize how much we were going to have to do and adjust for the protocols. We felt like we told the stories we wanted to tell and we didn’t have a lot that we needed to expand upon. I was directing, so I was kept really busy, and couldn’t focus too much on the “this is the last lollipop I’ll have on the set” kind of things. You can’t have that many people in a scene, and you can’t have that many extras, so we were constantly adjusting. She wears four-inch heels all the time, going up and down these steps to the stage. In terms of the Grace and Frankie story, we had a few iterations of it. When you do a show, the show begins to tell you when it’s over. So, they both are able to head back to the beach and walk together into the sunset. At first, Agnes agreed to send Grace back down to Earth, as Frankie was the only one meant to die from the electrocution.

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Stream It Or Skip It: 'Grace and Frankie: The Final Episodes' on ... (Decider)

The Lily Tomlin/Jane Fonda comedy returns for one last hurrah.

The lack of serious conflict might be a problem for some, but for those of us who have been following these ladies from the very start of their journey, the largely peaceful, occasionally wacky waters of Grace and Frankie are what made us fall in love with it to begin with. Our Take: Grace and Frankie has never made any apologies for what kind of show it is; silly, sweet, and a little bit soapy, the comedy is reliable and comforting, a soothing balm in the sea of crazy content that is swirling around on Netflix these days. The Gist: Grace (Jane Fonda) and Frankie (Lily Tomlin) are adjusting to life with Nick (Peter Gallagher) in the house. As the two of them (and Frankie) wonder what the future holds, Nick’s attempt at a dramatic exit fails when his ankle monitor alarm starts going off. Fonda and Tomlin are as lovable as ever in these final installments, leaning into the chemistry that made the show such a hit right out of the gate. Fresh out of prison (and now on house arrest), Nick has made himself at home with them, much to Frankie’s annoyance.

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How Does Grace and Frankie End? Do Grace and Frankie End Up ... (Parade Magazine)

Heading into the April 29 finale, fans had been hopeful that the title characters (played respectively by Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin) may actually tie the knot ...

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'Emotional support witches': farewell to Grace and Frankie, TV's ... (The Guardian)

Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin's on-screen bond has seen them through a whole voyage of self-discovery – from divorce to arthritis-friendly vibrators.

And so there is a sense of urgency: time is not on their side. When Grace and Frankie premiered in 2015, it lulled viewers into something of a false sense of security. Grace and Frankie’s big friendship moments happen against a backdrop of failing bodies, assisted suicide, cancer, grandparenting, dementia, alcoholism and arthritis-friendly vibrators. By those standards, the premise of Grace and Frankie should have been the beginning of the end for its main characters: two septuagenarian frenemies discovering that their husbands had been having an affair for two decades. Those gags are certainly in there but, more important, so is a revolutionary narrative of women finding meaningful relationships beyond their familial structures. How easy it would have been for them to check out of their final chapters and simply run down the clock.

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Grace and Frankie's Ageless Beauty Secrets, From Gray Hair to ... (Vogue.com)

A look at each character's beauty ethos—and the hair and makeup tricks behind their signature looks this season.

Here, we’re speaking with Fonda and Tomlin’s glam team about each character’s beauty ethos—and the hair and makeup tricks behind their signature looks this season. “A lot of older women say to me and to Lily, ‘You know, you gave me hope. Needless to say, there’s much that’s aspirational about Grace and Frankie. As Fonda put it, “I think one of the reasons that people like the show is that it’s really easy on the eye.” There’s the scenic California locales, like that beachfront San Diego house.

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Dolly Parton Reunited With Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin on 'Grace and ... (Today.com)

The actor and country music superstar makes a special guest appearance on the series finale of Fonda and Tomlin's long-running Netflix comedy "Grace and Frankie ...

“Well, if those two women can survive that kind of trauma that happened in the first episode, then maybe I’ll be OK kind of thing.” They first teamed up to make audiences laugh in the 1980 workplace comedy “9 to 5," playing a gang of fed-up secretaries who get revenge on their chauvinist boss played by Dabney Coleman. Parton appears as an angel named Agnes in the episode.

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Breaking down Dolly Parton's angelic <em>Grace and Frankie </em ... (EW.com)

In Grace and Frankie's finale episode, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin's titular characters are gathered with friends and family for Coyote (Ethan Embry) and ...

She was funny. She was game. She was there. she says after a dramatic swivel in her CB2 desk chair (which is paired with a sleek lucite desk). She's not the Almighty, as she explains to Grace and Frankie, but your friendly neighborhood "working-class angel," Agnes. Grace explains that there's been a mistake, which Agnes admits happens "now and again." Frankie quips, before she and Grace walk past the threshold to find none other than Dolly Parton!

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'Grace and Frankie' fashion: Sol Bergstein's best shirts, ranked (Mashable)

It's Sol Bergstein, people. Over the course of Grace and Frankie's seven seasons on Netflix, Sam Waterston boldly wheels out patterns of varying intensities in ...

The brightly hued heaps of hibiscus and birds of paradise. He breaks it out again in Season 6, Episode 4, when he's dealing with his own crisis. And I like the new me. Ahhh, the Columbia fishing shirt, covered in a fishing-related pattern of tunny fish, bluefin tuna, helms, and propellers. I don't know whether it's watching Sol stand up to Robert's tyrannical director that makes the colours pop, but THEY POP. It's a fundraiser for the New Lear theatre, so Sol breaks out the big, bright guns in this one. Revenge purchases is the order of the day, and so is this shirt, that must be worn with a leather jacket and a baaaad attitude. When Sol's shirts come with a bird/flower scene, an embossed fabric, and an unexpected shade like this deep green, we're all in. There are about 20 patterns going on here, and a dragon, and I love it. There are about 10 patterns going on here and I love it. While Robert cranks up Gilbert and Sullivan, Sol dances around to Little Richard, in a palm tree patterned number made for throwing all those angular shapes. Over the course of Grace and Frankie's seven seasons on Netflix, Sam Waterston boldly wheels out patterns of varying intensities in Sol's signature shirts, which offset husband Robert's unshakeable love of navy and grey.

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