Grace and Frankie: The 3 best parts of season 4

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

Barry & Brianna

Okay, so I have to admit that I love Barry and Brianna as a couple. I really do! They are very much “opposites attract,” but in a way that actually works for me. Brianna is the strong and silent type in this relationship, and is no longer Barry’s boss. Barry is an absolute goober, who pretty much does what Brianna tells him to do except when it’s absolutely ridiculous — like when she asks him to hand feed her dog exactly 30 pellets of moistened dog kibble while he waits to start his new job.

She gets Barry to stand up for himself, both to her and to others, and he makes her actually attempt to deal with her emotions. He fails at getting her to deal with them properly because, as he points out later in the season, she’s had a lifetime of experience at hiding them as well as a great (terrible?) role model in Grace.

They push each other, and each other’s buttons, throughout the season. However, they both have each other’s best interest at heart, even when Barry starts working for Brianna’s nemesis, Lauren at Natural Faces (cleverly renamed “Natural Feces”). When he realizes just how awful Lauren actually is to Brianna and when Natural Faces tries to buy out Say Grace, he quits his high-paying job because he couldn’t work for someone like that.

Barry also works hard to befriend Brianna’s really ridiculous family, and actually does a good job at it just by being himself — rescuing Grace when she hits a police car with a scooter, thoroughly enjoying Robert’s musical theater, and genuinely being excited about Bud and Allison’s riddle-filled gender reveal party.

I can’t wait to see what comes next for Barry and Brianna, as I think they’re my favorite pair in the series.