Grace and Frankie: The 3 best parts of season 4

Grace and Frankie season 4 production still. Photo: Melissa Moseley/Netflix

Sol’s Social Justice

In the first episode of season 4, Sol and Robert get arrested for protesting at a local mall because a pair of women were kicked out of Build-a-Bear for kissing. When they’re brought in to jail, they are on the first name basis with the jailer. The officer also knows all of their kids and all of their kids’ drama. They’re the only ones getting arrested, but they’ve also been calling in favors with their judge friends over the last six months to get them out of jail. They use their last judge call in to get them out in time for Bud (Baron Vaughn) and Allison’s (Lindsey Kraft) impending baby gender reveal party, but they still have to spend the night in jail, using “little bologna sandwiches as pillows” and annoying their fellow cellmates.

Robert decides that he is too old and brittle after their night in jail, and Sol spends all of his time and energy for half the season trying to convince him to do more from behind the scenes. Then Sol injures himself and the subject is more or less dropped in favor of a marital issues plot line that took over the second half of the show.

The previous seasons focused a lot more on Frankie’s activism, and it was great to see them delve into Sol’s this season, especially since they apparently used to be a dream team. Sol even kept the first bra that Frankie ever burned, and the lock cutters that they planned to use to break into a cosmetics testing facility that tested on rabbits. The only thing I would have liked to see more of was Sol experimenting with different types of activism after his injury — online activism is huge nowadays and an equally valid way of protesting compared to standing outside doing fancy tricks with signs.