Home Uncategorized THE QUEENS ARE BACK: JANE FONDA & LILY TOMLIN REUNITE FOR A HEARTWARMING “NEW BEGINNING” — ONE MOMENT THAT MADE THE ROOM FALL SILENT There was no grand announcement, no dramatic buildup — just a sudden hush as Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin walked into the room together, shoulders brushing, hands briefly finding each other like muscle memory, and in that split second, time seemed to fold in on itself. Years of history, laughter, activism, heartbreak, and unshakable friendship hung in the air, and when Fonda leaned in and softly said, “We’re still here,” Tomlin didn’t answer right away — she just smiled, a smile that carried weight, before replying, “And we’re not finished.” It wasn’t loud, it wasn’t flashy, but it hit harder than any speech, instantly pulling fans back to the bond that made Grace and Frankie more than a show — it was a reminder that reinvention doesn’t have an expiration date, and that some partnerships don’t fade, they deepen. What truly stirred emotion, though, was the unspoken subtext: this reunion didn’t feel like a victory lap or a nostalgic wave to the past, but like the first quiet step toward something new, something deliberately unnamed, leaving everyone watching with the same question lodged in their chest — what are they about to begin, and why does it feel like they’ve been preparing us for it all along?

THE QUEENS ARE BACK: JANE FONDA & LILY TOMLIN REUNITE FOR A HEARTWARMING “NEW BEGINNING” — ONE MOMENT THAT MADE THE ROOM FALL SILENT There was no grand announcement, no dramatic buildup — just a sudden hush as Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin walked into the room together, shoulders brushing, hands briefly finding each other like muscle memory, and in that split second, time seemed to fold in on itself. Years of history, laughter, activism, heartbreak, and unshakable friendship hung in the air, and when Fonda leaned in and softly said, “We’re still here,” Tomlin didn’t answer right away — she just smiled, a smile that carried weight, before replying, “And we’re not finished.” It wasn’t loud, it wasn’t flashy, but it hit harder than any speech, instantly pulling fans back to the bond that made Grace and Frankie more than a show — it was a reminder that reinvention doesn’t have an expiration date, and that some partnerships don’t fade, they deepen. What truly stirred emotion, though, was the unspoken subtext: this reunion didn’t feel like a victory lap or a nostalgic wave to the past, but like the first quiet step toward something new, something deliberately unnamed, leaving everyone watching with the same question lodged in their chest — what are they about to begin, and why does it feel like they’ve been preparing us for it all along?

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THE QUEENS ARE BACK: JANE FONDA & LILY TOMLIN REUNITE FOR A HEARTWARMING “NEW BEGINNING”!

Marta Kauffman on the Inspiration of ‘Grace and Frankie’ and Her Hopes Amid a Shifting Industry

The Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin comedy broke records at Netflix with its longevity, and the co-creator credits the energy of the starring duo and the bravery of their storytelling for its legacy: “The show may be ending, but they aren’t.”

Grace and Frankie and inset of Marta Kauffman

After spending seven seasons and 94 episodes with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, viewers of  Netflix’s Grace and Frankie may find that question — the final line of the series — to be ringing in their ears. The comedy became the longest-running series ever on the streamer, and, somehow, it still feels like it wasn’t long enough.

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But co-creator Marta Kauffman hopes viewers are inspired by that question, which was posed by Fonda’s Grace at the end of the pilot and, circling back around, is once again rhetorically asked to her best friend, Frankie (Tomlin), to close out the show.

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“The implication of ‘now what?’ is that there’s more,” Kauffman tells The Hollywood Reporter. “That the show may be ending, but they aren’t.”

The fourth-wall-breaking message is in line with the theme of the show, which at its heart has always been that it’s never too late to start over. After finding out that their husbands — played by Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston — had secretly been in love and were leaving them to be together in the pilot, Grace and Frankie have spent the last seven seasons challenging themselves to move on with their lives with touching hilarity. In their third act of life, they found new relationships, started several business ventures, subverted stereotypes about aging and, ultimately, found the soul mate they wanted to walk off into the sunset with in one another.

The finale neatly tied up storylines for the show’s entire ensemble. After a psychic predicted the date of Frankie’s death, Frankie holds a funeral for herself and when she, with a mic, and a cocktail-holding Grace collide, the pair are accidentally electrocuted and sent up to heaven early. There to greet them is an angel secretary named Agnes — played by Dolly Parton, marking a highly anticipated 9 to 5 reunion — who is so touched by the pair’s friendship that she decides it’s not yet their time, and sends them back to be among the living.

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Meanwhile their ex-husbands have their own touching sendoff when Saul (Waterston) makes a romantic gesture and re-creates their first kiss for Robert (Sheen), whose memory has been slipping away. Their offspring (including Ethan Embry, Baron Vaughn and Brooklyn Decker) embark on new relationship and career ventures, with the open ending for June Diane Raphael’s Brianna being ripe for a spinoff.

Below, in a chat with THR, Kauffman reflects on the impact of Grace and Frankie, explains why it was the right time to end it (despite it being  Netflix who made the call) and hopes that the end of her beloved series, co-created with Howard J. Morrison, doesn’t cap an era for long-running shows: “I think the characters that we love and the characters that we invest in, the ones we want to meet on the street and invite into our homes, are the ones who we’ve been with for a long time.”

Now that the final episodes have been released and viewers have had time to consume them, where are you in the process of saying goodbye to Grace and Frankie?

Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda in Grace and Frankie (Inset: Marta Kauffman) Courtesy of Saeed Adyani/Netflix; JC Olivera/FilmMagic

 

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