Absolutely Fabulous - Complete Series 5
Few things are as addictive as the addictive personalities of Edina  Monsoon (Jennifer Saunders) and Patsy Stone (Joanna Lumley), two  middle-aged hipsters wallowing in clothes, booze, pills, glamour,  celebrity, and anything else their excessive appetites demand. The fifth  series ofAbsolutely Fabulousfinds Edina coping with the  unexpected pregnancy of her long-suffering daughter Saffron (Julia  Sawalha) and the departure of all of her PR clients except for Emma  "Baby Spice" Bunton (playing herself with good humor). Every episode  chronicles some ridiculous new obsession--Edina gets a panic room (and  promptly traps herself inside of it); Patsy rediscovers a bunch of tawdry  stag films she starred in and proclaims them works of high camp; the two  kidnap Saffron's baby for a fashion shoot with Jean-Paul Gaultier.  Saunders and Lumley fuse the ruthless social satire of Molière with the  lowbrow physical high jinks of the Three Stooges, ably supported by Sawalha,  Jane Horrocks (as Edina's dimwitted assistant Bubble and scheming  narcissist Katy Grin), and a host of guest stars like Minnie Driver (in a  razor-sharp self-parody), Kristin Scott-Thomas, Elton John, and more.  Truly one of the gems of British sitcoms; sheer brilliance.--Bret  Fetzer