Frankie Bergstein

Frankie is a free-spirited hippie artist, married for decades to Sol until her world is upended by news that changes everything about her marriage. Impulsive, warm, and unapologetically eccentric, she smokes peyote, speaks in blunt spiritual truths, and clashes instantly with her buttoned-up, image-conscious nemesis-turned-housemate Grace.

Lily Tomlin plays Frankie with a loose, unfiltered physicality that turns every scene into comic surprise, but she never lets the flakiness curdle into caricature — underneath the crystals and yam obsession is real grief and real loyalty. The friction between her chaos and Grace's control is the show's engine, and Tomlin makes the chaos feel like wisdom.