Sweetie, Daring!
The British comedy Absolutely Fabulous won us over in the first half hour, when the neurotic trend-hound Edina Monsoon explained to her childhood friend, former model and fulltime lush Patsy Stone, that water is the wet stuff they mix with whisky. Plot was never key to AbFab. The ridiculous, often cutting humor was purely character-driven: two aging hedonists with little to show for the Age of Aquarius other than an exaggerated fashion sense, constant bewilderment (in Eddy’s case), and arch cynicism (as per Patsy). They were practically born to be drag queens. So how did we miss it all — the bleached-blond beehive, enormous sunglasses, animal prints, turbans, feathers, fun fur, and the endless river of booze, pills, and men — back in the ’90s?! Thank Old Man Winter, it’s never too late for a Christmas miracle. Absolutely Fabulous Live! stars Christian Heppinstall as Patsy and Terry McLaughlin as Eddy (with Raya Light brilliantly cast as Eddy’s assistant Bubble) in two holiday episodes that could’ve melted the ice in our Stoli, if not our hearts.
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