TMC
09-21-2022, 02:23 AM
The Ten Best THE NANNY Episodes of Season One (https://jacksonupperco.com/2022/09/14/the-ten-best-the-nanny-episodes-of-season-one/)
Let’s start with its premise… The Nanny stands in the grand tradition of a distinct type of “modified family” sitcom, in which someone hired to help run a house and raise its kids becomes a de facto partner for the single parent who is unable to go it alone. The great ancestor of this show is probably The Farmer’s Daughter (1963-1966, ABC), in which a widowed Congressman slowly falls in love with his lovely Swedish housekeeper.
The Ten Best THE NANNY Episodes of Season Two (https://jacksonupperco.com/2022/09/20/the-ten-best-the-nanny-episodes-of-season-two/)
In its second season, The Nanny is already using its premise less often to inspire weekly story — offering fewer plots that directly relate to the central tension of Fran as both “a fish out of water” and a proxy mother/wife. This is not ideal, for at this point in its life, every sitcom should be able to claim that its premise is still novel enough for regular invocation… And, okay, to be fair, The Nanny‘s central conceits are still freshly, repeatedly invoked in Two… they’re just less guiding than before, for now there are many more of the gimmicks and stunts for which The Nanny is better known — cheap cameos, jokes predicated on metatheatrical winks, and stories that have little to do with the series’ “situation,” stretching the bounds of the first year’s aesthetic realism in the process.
Let’s start with its premise… The Nanny stands in the grand tradition of a distinct type of “modified family” sitcom, in which someone hired to help run a house and raise its kids becomes a de facto partner for the single parent who is unable to go it alone. The great ancestor of this show is probably The Farmer’s Daughter (1963-1966, ABC), in which a widowed Congressman slowly falls in love with his lovely Swedish housekeeper.
The Ten Best THE NANNY Episodes of Season Two (https://jacksonupperco.com/2022/09/20/the-ten-best-the-nanny-episodes-of-season-two/)
In its second season, The Nanny is already using its premise less often to inspire weekly story — offering fewer plots that directly relate to the central tension of Fran as both “a fish out of water” and a proxy mother/wife. This is not ideal, for at this point in its life, every sitcom should be able to claim that its premise is still novel enough for regular invocation… And, okay, to be fair, The Nanny‘s central conceits are still freshly, repeatedly invoked in Two… they’re just less guiding than before, for now there are many more of the gimmicks and stunts for which The Nanny is better known — cheap cameos, jokes predicated on metatheatrical winks, and stories that have little to do with the series’ “situation,” stretching the bounds of the first year’s aesthetic realism in the process.