Edina's a twice-divorced PR maven who got dragged sideways through every fad of the '60s, '70s, and '80s. Patsy's a sometime fashion director who never met a drink, drug, or date she didn't like. The there-are-no-heroes-here humor leaves no excess unmocked, yet the relationship at the core of the series -- between Edina and her long-suffering, tightly wound daughter Saffron -- is surprisingly complex.

Angela Gunn