It really was, darlings! Freddie Thornhill and Stuart Bixby, superbly played by Sirs Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi, who Grand Marshaled this past NYC Gay Pride Parade, tied the knot at the end of Season 2, which we watched last night. Derek was SO cute, but, then, isn't he just?????? You just want to cuddle him!!!!!!!!!!!!
But the evening belonged last night to really two people. Marcia Warren as Penelope Thornhill, who is married to Freddie's stuffy, straight, mainstream brother, Mason, played by Philip Voss. Their routine with the wedding cake, though straight out of "I Love Lucy," was brilliantly executed, and Warren, as Penelope can do more with just one line than many actors I have seen. Her comic timing is impeccable. She needs to show up more!
Now, Stuart is, like Derek, in his Seventies, and has a mother, named Mildred, (as mine was!) who is still alive. She is played by Joan Linder, and is hilarious. As I mentioned, because of the whole death thing surrounding "Beaches," I am finding it difficult to just watch it. But death can be played for laughs, as last night demonstrated, when Stuart's mother, just before being pronounced "Husband and Husband," collapses in her church seat and dies, with Violet (the brilliant Frances de la Tour) and others having to prop her up, to make Stuart think she is alive!!!!!!!!! It is hilarious! By the way, did you know Stuart is a retired bar manager? No wonder he is so organized.
I loved the gym episode, when Ash told Theo to "keep away from my gays!" Wasn't that sweet???????????????? And how about Violet and Penelope (whom Stuart had sex with over fifty years ago!!!!!!!!!!) living it up in the men's flat? Priceless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The actors are so good. If only the writing would equal that of Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. Then it would become to what it aspires--a gay male 'Ab Fab.'
But the mother dying was the highlight! Here it is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Isn't it hilarious, darlings????????????????????
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