Adventures at Midlife

The Closer, featuring the fabulous and Emmy Award-winning Kyra Sedgwick, returns on Monday night! Tivo is all set so we won’t miss one bit of The Drawl! Actually, The Spouse and I have been fixin’ to go through with-Drawl! If it hadn’t been for that extra episode last winter about her cozy cross-country RV trip — with a suspect, Fritz, and her parents, Clay and Willie Ray — we both might be institutionalized by now!

It is really great theatre. Her anguish over her early-menopause symptoms and her frantic struggle to maintain both her career and her relationship with an often-demanding significant other, added to the drama of the cases she and her squad investigate, are brilliantly offset by some of the funniest repartee on television, particularly when that new comedy team of Flynn and Provenza are around:

Brenda: According to his school records, [the suspect is] very intelligent but he does have issues: he’s unemotional, frequently says inappropriate things, he’s literal-minded, he gets fixated on minor details, he gets agitated when his routine is altered and he’s extremely uncooperative when anything or anyone gets in the way of him doing what he wants.

Flynn: Does he have a Georgia accent?

Courtesy of QVC, we can now order her junk food-hiding tote bag!

Thank yew all so very much! We’ll be servin’ stewed possum, fried okra and cheese grits to celebrate the occasion!