EPISODE
SEASON
Absolutely Fabulous - Season 5
Season 5 opens with Saffy being away in Africa doing voluntary work, Eddy having obtained a posh new bathroom but the rest of the house is a mess. Ex-Spice Girl Emma Bunton, one of Eddy's new clients, comes to visit.
2 June 1961, Greenwich, London, England, UK
22 September 1970, London, England, UK
17 March 1976, Dublin, Ireland
18 March 1947, England, UK
4 April 1963, County Cork, Ireland
17 July 1957, Ealing, London, England, UK
1952
4 December 1953, Los Angeles, California, USA
29 January 1933, Paris, France
22 May 1970, Streatham, London, England, UK
25 March 1947, Pinner, Harrow, Middlesex [now London], England, UK
1969, Sutton, Surrey, England, UK
16 June 1955, Carbondale, Illinois, USA
25 August 1957, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
21 June 1959, Detroit, Michigan, USA
1 July 1945, Miami, Florida, USA
13 September 1971, London, England, UK
24 January 1957, Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
16 May 1951, Arles, France
September 17, 2018
It's decidedly bawdy and brash and certainly not family viewing. And you'd never invite Patsy and Eddy over to your place. But if you're looking for a laugh, this is absolutely still a fabulous show to watch.
September 18, 2018
The fifth season and White Box make a fitting end to the fable that Absolutely Fabulous is but the moral of any fable isn't that enjoyable even if it is necessary and fitting.
September 17, 2018
You can always count on "Absolutely Fabulous" to home in on the notable inanities of the day, like a wobbly pigeon with a crust in its cross-hairs.
September 17, 2018
The performances of all the intrepid actresses of this piece remain unflagging and expert, though Lumley, whose Patsy always combines raucous slapstick with cool underplaying, is stretching here and there to preserve her one-of-a-kind acerbity.
September 17, 2018
But while Sex was a wry snapshot of urban single-womanhood, AbFab was an edgier, commit-to-the-joke sitcom that more than earned its laugh track.
