TMC
10-18-2022, 05:15 AM
https://jacksonupperco.com/2022/10/18/the-ten-best-the-nanny-episodes-of-season-six/
I’ll start with good news — there are not as many ostentatious cameos, metatheatrical winks, or outrageous narrative notions in Season Six as there were in the two years prior. Oh, yes, they’re not gone completely (heck, look at the casting of Steve Lawrence as Fran’s dad!), but since they’ve been scaled back, this reduction in gimmickry feels like a victory. Now for the bad news — there are still far too few stories that genuinely examine the leads or their premise following the central couple’s union. This remains my core criticism of these last three years — first the series refused to progress its status quo when a motivated shift needed to occur, and then when it finally did provide movement, it still wasn’t interested in offering narratives or comedy that utilized the tweaked “situation.”
I’ll start with good news — there are not as many ostentatious cameos, metatheatrical winks, or outrageous narrative notions in Season Six as there were in the two years prior. Oh, yes, they’re not gone completely (heck, look at the casting of Steve Lawrence as Fran’s dad!), but since they’ve been scaled back, this reduction in gimmickry feels like a victory. Now for the bad news — there are still far too few stories that genuinely examine the leads or their premise following the central couple’s union. This remains my core criticism of these last three years — first the series refused to progress its status quo when a motivated shift needed to occur, and then when it finally did provide movement, it still wasn’t interested in offering narratives or comedy that utilized the tweaked “situation.”