The Netflix series Grace and Frankie, in its fifth season airing in 2019, stars Jane Fonda, eighty-two, and Lily Tomlin, eighty. Tomlin’s character, Frankie Bergstein, is a textbook case of someone with great openness—she smokes marijuana regularly, is a painter, and once hired a building contractor who lived in the woods behind a neighbor’s house. Fonda’s character, Grace Hanson, is set in her ways, emotionally cold, and conservative. In the second season, they start their own business, something that is completely new for the hippie-socialist Frankie, and in season four Grace starts dating a
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