Network: Netflix.
Episodes: 94 (half-hour).
Seasons: Seven.
TV show dates: May 8, 2015 — April 29, 2022.
Series status: Ended.
Performers include: Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Sam Waterston, Martin Sheen, Brooklyn Decker, Ethan Embry, June Diane Raphael, and Baron Vaughn.
TV show description:
A comedy from creators Marta Kauffman and Howard J. Morris, the Grace and Frankie TV show centers on retired beauty business mogul Grace Hanson (Fonda) and Frances Mengela Bergstein (Tomlin), i.e. Frankie — a free-spirited artist. Although they’ve never been particularly close, Grace and Frankie have been involved in each other’s lives for a long time, thanks to their divorce-lawyer husbands, Robert Hanson (Sheen) and Sol Bergsetin (Waterston), who are in practice together.
One evening, the couples meet for dinner. Arriving at the restaurant before their husbands, Grace and Frankie speculate that “the boys” are going to announce their retirement. Instead, they reveal a second longtime partnership of a more personal and enduring nature.
Robert and Sol have been in love for decades. Now they want to divorce their wives so that they can finally marry each other. Grace and Frankie are shocked, to say the least, and do not take the news well.
Next, the couples have to break the news to their adult children. While Frankie and Sol tell their sons, Bud (Vaughn) and Coyote (Embry), Robert and Grace lay out the truth for their daughters, Brianna (Raphael) and Mallory (Decker).
Although shocked, the kids try to comfort their mothers as best they can. Still, both Grace and Frankie eventually decamp to their families’ shared beach house, which also served as the men’s love next.
While the women have never had much in common, they wind up moving in together, at least until they find their footing. As their bond solidifies, Grace and Frankie form a new sort of family, replete with laughter, tears, ice cream, booze, and plenty of other “mood enhancers,” to smooth their uncharted, sometimes rocky path.
Series Finale:
Episode #94 — The Beginning
Robert finally comes to terms with his memory loss. Grace and Frankie confront the possibility of immediate death — or aging for a few more years.
First aired: April 29, 2022.
What do you think? Do you like the Grace and Frankie TV series? Should this TV show have ended or been renewed for an eighth season on Netflix?
I really have enjoyed all 4 seasons. Please do not cancel the series. The actors are all great and so well cast. There is so little on TV for this Generation X audience. We want MORE…
I REALLY like this show. I enjoy seeing actors that I can relate to. The show is very funny and keeps me smiling from beginning to the end of each episode. I am looking forward to the new season
I really enjoy this show. It is fun, contemporary, biting at times, engaging and touching. Please keep it going!!
Love Grace and Frankie. I see myself in all the characters – and, aside from laughing myself silly, I also learn something new about myself. So nice to see independent women picking up the pieces of their lives and going for it. Hope this show lasts forever! I can hardly wait for the new season.
I love the show. Pertinent and timely. Please keep this show forever.
I love this show and it should NOT be cancelled. I think this is some of the best writing and humor on TV right now. Please do not cancel I keep looking for the date of the next season.
this is the best show……just LOVE it….can’t wait for more
I absolutely love this show. I binge watch it. I have watched all 4 seasons and am going back through again. The friendship, support of their families and the getting older issues are so real. The humor and banter is not to be matched. I love it!
You cant help but love this program and laugh. Finally a program with humor that has some intelligence.
I binge watched seasons 3 and 4 and I am looking forward to season 5 and hope it will be renewed……please!!!!
I love this show. I watched the first episode the other day and wasn’t able to stop until I had watched all 4 seasons! Now I have to wait a whole year for a possible season 5? Praying that this show is not cancelled. Fonda and Tomlin are great together!
What a fun show! I wish there were more episodes in each season.
We really like this show. Hope it continues.
Great show can’t wait for new season.
Love this show. Can not wait to see this season.