Grace and Frankie is back.
However, if the show doesn’t pick up after ‘The House,’ the first episode of Season 5, I’m afraid the show may have run its course.
In previous seasons, the series was about the wacky adventures of recently divorced senior citizens coming to terms with their gay spouses cheating on them with each other. This season Grace and Frankie is going for poignant moments.
The women are struggling to deal with their house being sold and the fact that they were moved into a place that is one step above a nursing home. While there are people who can relate to their predicament, I am not sure fans under 50 will fully appreciate what’s going on in the Grace (Jane Fonda) and Frankie’s (Lily Tomlin) lives.
When the writers aren’t focusing on Grace and Frankie’s attempts to get their house back, they give us updates on Sol (Sam Waterston) and Robert’s (Martin Sheen) life together. In ‘The House,’ the two are caught wining and dining a man for a potential threesome. However, they’re disrupted by their kids who are looking for Grace and Frank, bursting into the house, and find Roy (Mark Deklin) completely naked. No one’s comfortable acknowledge the fact that is very obvious what happened, but that doesn’t stop them from dancing around the topic.
I want to love this new season of Grace and Frankie, but I can’t. Once again, the show reminds us that, even though the series centers around Grace and Frankie, Sol and Robert are the more interesting characters.
In the end, frankly, I may just be too young to understand. I may look back in 50 years and say now I get it. Currently, I’d rather watch Grace and Frankie live life to the fullest than watch them deal with the fact that life is preventing them from doing so.
Rating: 5 out of 10
