Helen Tudor-Fisk is back, and I’m loving the third season of Kitty Flanagan’s laugh-out-loud corporate lawyer series, Fisk.
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Fisk, starring Kitty Flanagan, is about Helen Tudor-Fisk, a woman dealing with a humiliating divorce, a gay father, and some rather uptight co-workers at a Wills and Probate law firm in Sydney, Australia. I caught up with this series on Netflix when it premiered its first season. Now you all know that I absolutely love foreign films and series, but I would have to say that Kitty Flanagan’s Fisk will become a cult favorite like Seinfeld. The show was created by Kitty Flanagan, Penny Flanagan and Vincent Sheehan. Fisk is directed by Tom Peterson and Kitty Flanagan. It stars Kitty Flanagan, Julia Zemiro, Marty Sheargold, Aaron Chen, John Gaden, and Glenn Butcher as the regular cast members.
The writing on Fisk is excellent, and the laughs, as with Seinfeld and Schitt’s Creek, are drop-dead hilarious. In the first season, Helen (Kitty Flanagan), and middle-aged woman, is left in financial disarray after a nasty divorce with her unfaithful husband. She drives a broken-down car, only has three business suits…all shapeless…all the same ugly colour. Her employers at the law firm are a brother-sister team, Ray (Marty Sheargold) and Roz Gruber (Julia Zemiro). Their Gen Z receptionist/webmaster George (Aaron Chen) is an absolute hoot as a typical Gen Z personality. Along with some of the craziest clients that are assigned to her, Helen must also deal with family issues. Her dad, Anthony Fisk (John Gaden), is a retired judge who married his best friend, Viktor (Glenn Butcher). Viktor and Helen can barely tolerate each other.
One of the funniest episodes of the first season was “Taken,” in which a woman demands power of attorney over her mother. Each episode begins with a seemingly normal day for Helen, but it isn’t long before the CRAZY starts, and we are pulled into a rabbit hole of laughable connecting dots.
Conclusion
In the third season of Fisk, Helen is made a partner in the Gruber and Gruber law firm. Roz has her attention on mediations. Ray has a new romantic interest. George has his grandmother hired as a legal assistant, but she may have worked for an Intelligence Agency in the past…and Helen…well, she bought a house and is now dealing with a pushy neighbour, Murray (Carl Barron), along with her father writing a racy book based on his marriage to Viktor.
The laughs keep coming, and honestly, you all need to binge-watch all three seasons on Netflix. This is Granny’s favourite comedy series other than Seinfeld and Schitt’s Creek.
