If there is one thing I love, it's a campy, snarky, fashionable character. And as we are aware I watch very little American tv offerings, but one I fell in love with was Wednesday, a take on the life of Wednesday Addams. The first season was incredibly done. Plus, it had Gwendoline Christy. As if it could get any better, Burton went this season and added a Patron Saint of mine, the stunning Joanna Lumley to the cast as Hester Frump! A huge fan since the days of Jam and Jerusalem and, of course, Absolutely Fabulous...the actress can do no wrong. She has given a new life and purpose to a character we knew little of from previous incarnations of the show and movie, and grandma was basically nothing more than a bumbling mumbling side piece that time forgot in a gothic mansion. Lumley at 79, joined the cast at Tim Burton's request and so she lends her talents across this side of the pond playing Hester Frump as the wealthy and fashionable matriarch of the Frump family, and the owner of the largest outcast business in America, Frump Mortuaries. She is snarky, insulting, cold and sharp tongued, and is also the mother of Morticia Addams and Ophelia Frump. And while she has a good strong understanding relationship with her granddaughter Wednesday, she as a ghastly one with her own daughter Morticia. Staring with her disapproval of her marriage to Gomez. Needless to say, she is the first character in some time I have loved on a program. I dare say Absolutely Ghastly!
Her first appearance of the season was excellent! The only way to make me orgasm would be to add Helena Bonham Carter to the cast yet.
It does look, dare I say it, absolutely fabulous, and I love Lumley and Christie who can almost take away the stench of Zeta Jones.
ReplyDeleteLoL! Each time Zeta Jones was appearing on the screen I couldn't help but waiting for Zorro to appear :-))
DeleteI concur and couldn't agree more with all you wrote.
ReplyDeleteI fell in love with her since she took over the role of the female character and. played Purdey in The Avengers series in the 70s - an absolute must in British TV series at the time. Then-after, each of her appearances in TV movies was worth watching, and of course there was the terrific duo with Jennifer Saunders in the 90s series AbFab.
You made me fancy re-watching this series, so I went looking for it and in the process discovered that there was an AbFab movie from 2016 I wasn't aware of. Currently downloading it, hoping they'll provide me with the giggles I need as I reach the end of my holidays. Next Thursday is back to work day, and it will sure help if I dive into it with some Patsy-like sharp replies :-p
Hug you,
Laurent
Wednesday was super good this season, and Hester? She was so tastefully dry and simply, utterly fabulous.
ReplyDeleteI may have to give this another try. Watched the first season and then never picked it up again. Lumley would make it worth the effort.
ReplyDeleteOutside of sports, the only show I stream in RDR. I'm glad to see she's still around. I loved her in AbFab.
ReplyDeleteCan't say I've seen Lumley in anything apart from a few snippets of Ab Fab decades ago, but then I don't watch TV. I think I'm allergic to it, if for no other reason that it seems to get stupider as every year goes by.
ReplyDeleteLove Wednesday.
ReplyDeleteAs you say, season one was fab and season two? Love!
The universe they have created is fantastic and it's thank to the actors playing full-fleshed characters. Grandma is a riot and oh so fashionable!
Recommend.
XOXO