I’ve been watching it too, just delighted to see it again. I’m a bit older than you, and my late partner Lenny was older still. He insisted I start watching The Nanny when it first came on, but it didn’t take a lot of convincing to keep me at it.

And I should add that gay men all over Manhattan seemed to drop what they were doing when it came on. I think we threw about as many The Nanny parties as Absolutely Fabulous parties, and that’s saying a lot.

I don’t know what I love more about the series, its subversive queerness or the loving attention it pays to New York Jewish culture.

I swear, every time Fran or Sylvia make certain gestures or use certain expressions, I hear Lenny. His accent and vocabulary were so much like theirs. His physicality was so much like theirs. He loved The Nanny in part because of how it celebrated the ordinary, down-to-earth Jewish experience that was the world he grew up in. You just don’t see that world much on TV or in film.

Obviously, the series exaggerates that world, but I don’t think it does so in a way to make fun or ridicule, and I know Lenny didn’t think it did.

Is The Nanny camp? A friend of mine is writing his master’s thesis on camp right now, immersed in its origins and analyzing the writings of academics who tried describing it. I’m trying to convince him to watch The Nanny, telling him it’s every bit as wonderful as Absolutely Fabulous, which I succeeded in talking him into. For the space of about two semesters, he turned a small quarter of a UK campus into an Ab Fab paradise. (A couple of dozen LGBT students in Bristol are still running around campus muttering sweetie darling under their breath, I’m pretty sure. Lol!)

I’d like to get his opinion on the camp nature of The Nanny, not that I take issue with your own of course; I’m not qualified to have a strong opinion.

But I am qualified to be absolutely delighted to be experiencing it again. Now if you’ll excuse me, I think I have an episode stream. :-)