@hpl138 Thats true, but she's ultimately the monster created by Patsy and Eddy. It's kind of like the old question, who is to blame, Frankenstein or Frankensteins Monster?
I still never understood why Saffy never moved out long ago if she hated the situation so much. Serg left a long time ago to live his own life in Ny but Saff just stayed and never worked or did anything then threw her mom out of her own house
But Saffron is the comedy foil for Patsy and Edina to bounce off. Sure there'll be more. Jennifer said the last one ever was the 1995 episode in series 3 but there's been loads since then.
@Tylantia Great news, thanks! I always thought it would be really cool if there were an episode where Edina has a freaky dream (much like in "Iso Tank" from series 1) and she is Saffron and Saffron is exactly like Edina.
The music made me a little sad, but I was still wondering where they were. It wasn't until the woman with the stroller walked by and I realized they were "living" in a store when I started laughing. HaHaHaHaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
Eddy and Patsy might be extremely selfish and unsociable, but at least they had fun and made each other happy. Saffy on the other hand has no friends, no job, just got married to the father of her child who has many more wives and lives on another continent, and is about to live and raise a child utterly alone in a big house that is only hers cause her mother and father actually worked and paid for it. Saffy is just as horrible as them, only without any humor or fun!
I think the evolution of Saffy is the most interesting. She started out as a plane, nerdy, but intelligent girl with a crazy mother. In the end she was so damaged that she became as crazy as her mother, but at the other end of the scale. A lonely single mum, looking for the perfectly organised and safe life that she only knows from the telly, wich probably doesn't even exist..
yeh it's really kind of sad, if you look past the comedy. At one point she even spied on a family, watching from the closet, to see what normal family life was like. She has become her mother, but in a different way. Always searching for ideals that don't really exist. she rebelled against her mother's lifestyle to the extreme. ever searching for the perfect family she never had.
@tgurlplaymate4u Im sorry she just reminds me so much of My Aunt. She treated my poor Grandmother the same way all the time. Lording over her with Her higher education and taking every chance to make her feel foolish. She was also nosey and controlling too. im sorry but Saffy is a carbon copy of that bitch.
@xxzerawriotxx awwww.....thats ok hun.... i was only saying..... trust me when i say i feel for you, I had a grand father who was an ABSOLUTE PRICK!!! so I totally understand your first post now.... ;>)
Well, it's the same idea as the first "25 Years Later" finale("The End"in1995), where they create the scenario of Eddy and Pats as old women banned from the main house, away from a grown Saffy and her kids. -Only this time, it's in the present.
I think the end of this show was brilliant--for all of Saffy's caution and disdain for her mother's lifestyle, she sort of became her mother--she made some bad decisions, got a little irresponsible and wound up a single mother in a big house. And just like her mother, she gained weight, had poor taste in clothes, and decorated the house in a crazy way. Brilliant!
comment gone, recap: I maybe defend Eddie and Patsy a little (who really are monsters) but I think Saffy is more interesting that just the good girl who finally stands up for herself. Breaking the daily contact of living with them was necessary (for all concerned) but only a small tenative step with it's own dangers.
@mafketays I do agree with your points now that you explained them further.
I do hope Saunders does at least a special to follow up The White Box, but I can understand if she doesn't. I'd love to see Saunders and Joanna Lumley together again.
(continuing) is with a woman with her own major charge of negative energy.
I think tht when the show started Saffy was kind of meant to be unambiguously positive, but what's the fun of that? She became more interesting as her own deep hang ups and negativity came to the fore.
What we needed was a post script showing Lola Jane loathing her repressed controlling mother and finding refuge with her permissive grandmother (while avoiding some of her exceses). The circle would then be complete.
Also, I love that you acknowledge that all three Monsoon women are dysfunctional in their own way, but you seem to be giving Saffy (and Gran to a lesser extent) a much harsher analysis than Eddie and Patsy. I mean I know they are absolutely fabulous and we all love them for that, but let's not make them out to be models of good parenting here.
@SDoesNotKnow "you seem to be giving Saffy (and Gran ..) a much harsher analysis than Eddie and Patsy."
Guilty as charged, I think the Eddy bad Saffy good way of thinking is too simple (as the show evolved). And the ending isn't really that upbeat. It's kind of negative for all of them.
And yes, Eddie and Patsy are monsters and would be hell to know in real life but Iv'e known kids with worse to deal with than Saffy who didn't end up as obsessed and negative as she did.
@SDoesNotKnow I don't think good or bad really apply to _any_ of the characters (part of what makes them so fun and interesting);.
I do think kicking them out of the house was probably overall a good idea, but it will also come with a high price. For starters Eddie's manic energy to react off of and against Saffy and Mrs M really don't have much of a relationship or at least less of one than Saffy thinks (hinted at before).
Saffy's now effectively a single mom who's main present relationship.
Continuing on, I think that Saffron wasn't so shocked by Eddy's relatively mild slap at Lola Jane, but freaked out by the memory of her own violent emotions. Getting rid of Eddy and Patsy helps her block out the knowledge of her own rage.
This is reinforced by Mrs M's symbolic rejection of her (giving her a bill). She isn't starting over, just stewing in her own juices.
Don't get me wrong, I love Edina and Patsy. They are the show.
However, I thought it was clear with the way Jennifer Saunders wrote this show and ending that they were not good people nor should they have raised Saffron. They are the reason Saffron is repressed and socially awkward. Jane will have a hard time dealing with Saffy's problems but at least Saffy took a step in the right direction by getting rid of Patsy and Eddie. BTW, Gran did not reject Saffy. Gran was just being Gran.
really dont get why you all seem to think this ending is stupid, this is the most appropriate way to end it. they couldnt continue living with saffy, saffy had started her fresh start and by edina and patsy sitting living in the shop window it shows how stupid and artificial a life edina and patsy have always lived. its a totally genius ending
I used to hate this ending, but now I think it's very appropriate. Saffy might've been brought up with Edina and Patsy's destructive ways and learned to deal with it, no matter how damaging, but now she has Emma to be responsible for. With Edina hitting Emma, it was like a physical image of what would happen to Emma emotionally and psychologically if Saffy continued having the duo into her life. It might've been too late for Saffy, but Emma is Saffy's fresh start.
@SDoesNotKnow Saffy's fresh start as wife number whatever of an absent father? Part of the point of the show was (I thought) how each generation of the Monsoon women expressed their rage differently (but almost always dysfunctionally).
Being raised by Saffy little Lola Jane will find her extravagant grandmother's uninhibited company to be a lot of fun and more liberating than her pinched repressed mom or antiseptic passive agressive great grandmother.
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Nah, the later series are pretty sad if not borin' as they kinda "evolved" into the health conscious (no more chain-smokin' n' endless swig of alchohol), less bitchin' n' swearin' of family friendly comedy :(
The ending, while a little painful to see things unresolved makes sense.
The very 1st show began with Eddy and Saffy's dysfunctional relationship, only then, Eddy was in full control and Saffron simply tolerated her self-centered ways and verbal abuse.
It's only fitting that in this final show, the power has transferred to Saffy who has evolved from a weak but intelligent child who takes care of her mother to a strong mother herself (if not somewhat damaged)
@jonas3333 I quite agree. I wonder with the new show, how Jennifer and the writers are going to resolve all of it. Obviously Saffy will have gone on with her life and her husband and daughter, and Patsy and Eddy probably will have some new flat or house and yet more irresponsible immature partying lifestyle. LOL It will be interesting to see how things have turned out....
Aww! I really wanna see what they're all up to! It'll be 5 years, since we saw them, next year... Wonder if Saffy changed her mind and let them move back in (or just her mother) or if not then what's happened to the terrible twosome? Too many questions! Hope Jennifer Saunders decides to bring it back even if it's just for a Christmas special or something!!! Thanks soo much for uploading all these FABULOUS episodes!!!
My Ex Lives Down The Same Road As Kathy Burke, Lives Opposite In Fact. So Maybe I Should Post Her A Letter Telling Her To Tell Jennifer To Bring Ab Fab Back?
I'm praying that Jennifer will change her mind and write some more Ab ab. I like this special but I feel it's such a letdown towards the end. Not the perfect ending for a series as good as AbFab
I thought I had seen every episode but just found this one. Is this the series finale? I am disappointed because I thought the Christmas one was a perfect ending. Oh well.
I dont like this episode at all... from the first time I saw (I have the all the series) this scene I knew its gonna end and its a bad feeling. I want them back with new adventures, but being still Edwina, Pat, the btch troll and the "old woman" :D
Epic. But, doesn't Eddie own the house? Saffy can't just kick her out. I'm surprised Patsy didn't go for the corkscrew and shank the little troll bitch from hell. LMAO!!!!!!!!!!
I 100% agree, but i gues that there's a little bit more to it. To me the ending seems in a way hopelessly romantic. Pats&Ed have gone absolutely mad, that's obvious, but the music makes it all far more sad.
Anybody's got any idea what's the name of this version of Mancini's "Windmills of your mind"? It's lovely!
I love the ending, it's perfect. It's like the final manifestation of their "fabulousness": they won't accept that they have made themselves insufferable to Saffy and are now poor and homeless. They remain deluded and choose to live in a world of fantasy, dreaming of wealth and luxury, rather than to accept the reality. This denial has been characterising them throughout the whole series.
i can't find the last episode of season 5 :((
kRrUiLsEtSn 1 week ago
why was it saffys house at the end, i dont get it?
wyattbritt2k9 1 month ago
Lol
astiltner1 1 month ago
Don't forget the new episode tomorrow on BBC 1 :)
melvinhendrikse 2 months ago
i heard theres only 3 new episodes and i think 2 were beinb played around new years and 1 around the olympics?? correct me if im wrong?
keithc42oo 4 months ago
To me Saffy ultimately become much more unlikeable and annoying than Edie or Patsy ever were at their worst.
hpl138 4 months ago 2
@hpl138 Thats true, but she's ultimately the monster created by Patsy and Eddy. It's kind of like the old question, who is to blame, Frankenstein or Frankensteins Monster?
trxdblogger 1 month ago
I still never understood why Saffy never moved out long ago if she hated the situation so much. Serg left a long time ago to live his own life in Ny but Saff just stayed and never worked or did anything then threw her mom out of her own house
MitchellWiggs 5 months ago
This is my favorite sitcom ever. Just waiting for the new releases that are supposed to come out in December. Hope they will be shown here in the US.
hfest08 6 months ago
What's the name of the song playing in the background? It's pretty dramatic and funny. lol
tall32guy 6 months ago
@tall32guy "The Windmills of Your Mind," the song Eddy tried singing at Saffy during their final argument.
rocketdave 5 months ago
@rocketdave LOL!! Awesome!! Thanks for giving me that little trivia fact; good to know. :)
tall32guy 5 months ago
But Saffron is the comedy foil for Patsy and Edina to bounce off. Sure there'll be more. Jennifer said the last one ever was the 1995 episode in series 3 but there's been loads since then.
stuartshame 7 months ago
@stuartshame New shows filiming next month, hopefully ready by the end of the year :)
Tylantia 7 months ago
@Tylantia Great news, thanks! I always thought it would be really cool if there were an episode where Edina has a freaky dream (much like in "Iso Tank" from series 1) and she is Saffron and Saffron is exactly like Edina.
stuartshame 7 months ago
This was the worst ep of Ab Fab ever made! No wonder they never released it on DVD here.
jmurphy983 7 months ago
The music made me a little sad, but I was still wondering where they were. It wasn't until the woman with the stroller walked by and I realized they were "living" in a store when I started laughing. HaHaHaHaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
KyliesMCJ 7 months ago
Eddy and Patsy might be extremely selfish and unsociable, but at least they had fun and made each other happy. Saffy on the other hand has no friends, no job, just got married to the father of her child who has many more wives and lives on another continent, and is about to live and raise a child utterly alone in a big house that is only hers cause her mother and father actually worked and paid for it. Saffy is just as horrible as them, only without any humor or fun!
boyspuros 7 months ago 3
I think the evolution of Saffy is the most interesting. She started out as a plane, nerdy, but intelligent girl with a crazy mother. In the end she was so damaged that she became as crazy as her mother, but at the other end of the scale. A lonely single mum, looking for the perfectly organised and safe life that she only knows from the telly, wich probably doesn't even exist..
brandiralavara5 9 months ago
@brandiralavara5
yeh it's really kind of sad, if you look past the comedy. At one point she even spied on a family, watching from the closet, to see what normal family life was like. She has become her mother, but in a different way. Always searching for ideals that don't really exist. she rebelled against her mother's lifestyle to the extreme. ever searching for the perfect family she never had.
Rowan07001484 8 months ago
I absolutely hate Saffy. she is such a cow.
xxzerawriotxx 1 year ago
@xxzerawriotxx get a grip.....lol.....Its ONLY a TV show.... A figment of someones imagination..........
tgurlplaymate4u 11 months ago
@tgurlplaymate4u Im sorry she just reminds me so much of My Aunt. She treated my poor Grandmother the same way all the time. Lording over her with Her higher education and taking every chance to make her feel foolish. She was also nosey and controlling too. im sorry but Saffy is a carbon copy of that bitch.
xxzerawriotxx 11 months ago
@xxzerawriotxx awwww.....thats ok hun.... i was only saying..... trust me when i say i feel for you, I had a grand father who was an ABSOLUTE PRICK!!! so I totally understand your first post now.... ;>)
tgurlplaymate4u 11 months ago
@xxzerawriotxx
come on now. Saffy's mother treated her like shit her whole life really. she ignored her and neglected her. it's not really the same thing.
Rowan07001484 8 months ago
Well, it's the same idea as the first "25 Years Later" finale("The End"in1995), where they create the scenario of Eddy and Pats as old women banned from the main house, away from a grown Saffy and her kids. -Only this time, it's in the present.
fxcamera1 1 year ago
eddy is great. I luv it here
c4exclusive 1 year ago
I think the end of this show was brilliant--for all of Saffy's caution and disdain for her mother's lifestyle, she sort of became her mother--she made some bad decisions, got a little irresponsible and wound up a single mother in a big house. And just like her mother, she gained weight, had poor taste in clothes, and decorated the house in a crazy way. Brilliant!
vanessafabulay 1 year ago 3
@vanessafabulay I agree with you about Saffy's clothes, she always used to wear those awful cardigans
7039TS 1 year ago
Cheers, thanks a lot.
HailTheOri 1 year ago 2
comment gone, recap: I maybe defend Eddie and Patsy a little (who really are monsters) but I think Saffy is more interesting that just the good girl who finally stands up for herself. Breaking the daily contact of living with them was necessary (for all concerned) but only a small tenative step with it's own dangers.
mafketays 1 year ago
@mafketays I do agree with your points now that you explained them further.
I do hope Saunders does at least a special to follow up The White Box, but I can understand if she doesn't. I'd love to see Saunders and Joanna Lumley together again.
SDoesNotKnow 1 year ago
(continuing) is with a woman with her own major charge of negative energy.
I think tht when the show started Saffy was kind of meant to be unambiguously positive, but what's the fun of that? She became more interesting as her own deep hang ups and negativity came to the fore.
What we needed was a post script showing Lola Jane loathing her repressed controlling mother and finding refuge with her permissive grandmother (while avoiding some of her exceses). The circle would then be complete.
mafketays 1 year ago
Also, I love that you acknowledge that all three Monsoon women are dysfunctional in their own way, but you seem to be giving Saffy (and Gran to a lesser extent) a much harsher analysis than Eddie and Patsy. I mean I know they are absolutely fabulous and we all love them for that, but let's not make them out to be models of good parenting here.
SDoesNotKnow 1 year ago
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@SDoesNotKnow "you seem to be giving Saffy (and Gran ..) a much harsher analysis than Eddie and Patsy."
Guilty as charged, I think the Eddy bad Saffy good way of thinking is too simple (as the show evolved). And the ending isn't really that upbeat. It's kind of negative for all of them.
And yes, Eddie and Patsy are monsters and would be hell to know in real life but Iv'e known kids with worse to deal with than Saffy who didn't end up as obsessed and negative as she did.
mafketays 1 year ago
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SDoesNotKnow 1 year ago
@SDoesNotKnow I don't think good or bad really apply to _any_ of the characters (part of what makes them so fun and interesting);.
I do think kicking them out of the house was probably overall a good idea, but it will also come with a high price. For starters Eddie's manic energy to react off of and against Saffy and Mrs M really don't have much of a relationship or at least less of one than Saffy thinks (hinted at before).
Saffy's now effectively a single mom who's main present relationship.
mafketays 1 year ago
Continuing on, I think that Saffron wasn't so shocked by Eddy's relatively mild slap at Lola Jane, but freaked out by the memory of her own violent emotions. Getting rid of Eddy and Patsy helps her block out the knowledge of her own rage.
This is reinforced by Mrs M's symbolic rejection of her (giving her a bill). She isn't starting over, just stewing in her own juices.
mafketays 1 year ago
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Don't get me wrong, I love Edina and Patsy. They are the show.
However, I thought it was clear with the way Jennifer Saunders wrote this show and ending that they were not good people nor should they have raised Saffron. They are the reason Saffron is repressed and socially awkward. Jane will have a hard time dealing with Saffy's problems but at least Saffy took a step in the right direction by getting rid of Patsy and Eddie. BTW, Gran did not reject Saffy. Gran was just being Gran.
SDoesNotKnow 1 year ago
really dont get why you all seem to think this ending is stupid, this is the most appropriate way to end it. they couldnt continue living with saffy, saffy had started her fresh start and by edina and patsy sitting living in the shop window it shows how stupid and artificial a life edina and patsy have always lived. its a totally genius ending
merchi7 1 year ago 6
I used to hate this ending, but now I think it's very appropriate. Saffy might've been brought up with Edina and Patsy's destructive ways and learned to deal with it, no matter how damaging, but now she has Emma to be responsible for. With Edina hitting Emma, it was like a physical image of what would happen to Emma emotionally and psychologically if Saffy continued having the duo into her life. It might've been too late for Saffy, but Emma is Saffy's fresh start.
SDoesNotKnow 1 year ago 4
@SDoesNotKnow I think the kid's name is Jane(or Lola, as Eddy calls her), not Emma.
Ms14787 1 year ago
@SDoesNotKnow Saffy's fresh start as wife number whatever of an absent father? Part of the point of the show was (I thought) how each generation of the Monsoon women expressed their rage differently (but almost always dysfunctionally).
Being raised by Saffy little Lola Jane will find her extravagant grandmother's uninhibited company to be a lot of fun and more liberating than her pinched repressed mom or antiseptic passive agressive great grandmother.
mafketays 1 year ago
BITCH TROG!
Rg56 1 year ago
Saffy is just an ungrateful little bitch troll!
undecidedfates 1 year ago
so did they buy the furniture shop?
andrewlately 1 year ago
I hate Saffy, I hate her dull annoying ways.
Magtelite 1 year ago
They make living in a home decor shop look fantastic! lol
aramanth 1 year ago 3
This ending is dissapointing that saffy has throwd patsy and eddy out of the house but it's fuuny that the are now living in the terrance conran shop
7039TS 2 years ago
You can always take comfort from "The End" episode, when 20 some years later, Eddy and Pats wind up living next door to Saff. XD
BBIAN0 2 years ago 5
I would love 4 AbFab to be back on
wykedvyxen 2 years ago
Heh,funny yet kind of sad that it had to end that way.
Dunes 2 years ago 3
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Nah, the later series are pretty sad if not borin' as they kinda "evolved" into the health conscious (no more chain-smokin' n' endless swig of alchohol), less bitchin' n' swearin' of family friendly comedy :(
WILLIAMOFORANGE2003 2 years ago
the music is great!!!!
c4exclusive 2 years ago 3
The ending, while a little painful to see things unresolved makes sense.
The very 1st show began with Eddy and Saffy's dysfunctional relationship, only then, Eddy was in full control and Saffron simply tolerated her self-centered ways and verbal abuse.
It's only fitting that in this final show, the power has transferred to Saffy who has evolved from a weak but intelligent child who takes care of her mother to a strong mother herself (if not somewhat damaged)
jonas3333 2 years ago 46
@jonas3333 I quite agree. I wonder with the new show, how Jennifer and the writers are going to resolve all of it. Obviously Saffy will have gone on with her life and her husband and daughter, and Patsy and Eddy probably will have some new flat or house and yet more irresponsible immature partying lifestyle. LOL It will be interesting to see how things have turned out....
tall32guy 6 months ago
Aww! I really wanna see what they're all up to! It'll be 5 years, since we saw them, next year... Wonder if Saffy changed her mind and let them move back in (or just her mother) or if not then what's happened to the terrible twosome? Too many questions! Hope Jennifer Saunders decides to bring it back even if it's just for a Christmas special or something!!! Thanks soo much for uploading all these FABULOUS episodes!!!
kayleighsarmy 2 years ago 6
My Ex Lives Down The Same Road As Kathy Burke, Lives Opposite In Fact. So Maybe I Should Post Her A Letter Telling Her To Tell Jennifer To Bring Ab Fab Back?
Best Sitcom EVER!!!!!!!
RachelWest91 2 years ago
I'm praying that Jennifer will change her mind and write some more Ab ab. I like this special but I feel it's such a letdown towards the end. Not the perfect ending for a series as good as AbFab
redbl00dedguy 2 years ago 6
I agree, christhmas episode was a perfect ending. It was happy, and I think they deserved that after all they went through :P
gloomyoutlook 2 years ago
I thought I had seen every episode but just found this one. Is this the series finale? I am disappointed because I thought the Christmas one was a perfect ending. Oh well.
darogr 2 years ago 3
I dont like this episode at all... from the first time I saw (I have the all the series) this scene I knew its gonna end and its a bad feeling. I want them back with new adventures, but being still Edwina, Pat, the btch troll and the "old woman" :D
NovusBoy 2 years ago 3
that was the best thanx for the upload..
hijinx1979 2 years ago
Epic. But, doesn't Eddie own the house? Saffy can't just kick her out. I'm surprised Patsy didn't go for the corkscrew and shank the little troll bitch from hell. LMAO!!!!!!!!!!
hnoss13 2 years ago
Eddy doesn't own the house. Saffy does. Her father put it in her name when he and Eddy were divorced.
ChromeLibrarian 2 years ago 7
Wow,so that's how it actually ended eh? Man,I never thought i'd see it happen to them.
Dunes 2 years ago
I didn't like the episode as much as the others first, but I love it now... weird
the ending is perfect
I do hope they'll make another series/special though
XanArt21 2 years ago 2
i want more edina and poor saffy :( :( :(
boyspuros 2 years ago
I 100% agree, but i gues that there's a little bit more to it. To me the ending seems in a way hopelessly romantic. Pats&Ed have gone absolutely mad, that's obvious, but the music makes it all far more sad.
Anybody's got any idea what's the name of this version of Mancini's "Windmills of your mind"? It's lovely!
bonvivantpilati 2 years ago
I love the ending, it's perfect. It's like the final manifestation of their "fabulousness": they won't accept that they have made themselves insufferable to Saffy and are now poor and homeless. They remain deluded and choose to live in a world of fantasy, dreaming of wealth and luxury, rather than to accept the reality. This denial has been characterising them throughout the whole series.
And it's hilarious too ^^
Idnarmadur 2 years ago 8
The more I watch the ending; the more I actually like it.
iio7 2 years ago 2
Thanks for posting the white box episode. :)
Ericcu1 2 years ago 19