Who Is Phil On 'Grace & Frankie'?

Grace and Frankie may be elderly divorcees, just they've never let either of those things keep them from having healthy dear lives. Netflix'southGrace and Frankie regularly proves that there is however love to be had subsequently divorce and subsequently the age of 70, with Craig T. Nelson, Ernie Hudson, and Peter Gallagher all enjoying arcs as a BF of either Grand or F. More than a few dudes take walked through the doors of Grace (Jane Fonda) and Frankie's (Lily Tomlin) embankment house over the bear witness's four seasons. That, coupled with the fact that a whole year passes in-betwixt seasons, can make keeping who's who straight.

That'southward why ane of the big reveals of Season iv might just fly over your head if you haven't been keeping Grace and Frankie in rotation in-betwixt seasons. During episode seven, "The Landline," Grace'due south ex-hubby Robert (Martin Sheen) casually mentions that Phil Milstein has died. The news sends Grace into a low-key emotional tailspin, as she tries to downplay her inner turmoil to proceed up appearances. Robert offers some context, saying that he was their contractor years agone, just at this signal what viewersreally need is a Popular-Up Video style headshot of who Phil was. Information technology's been years! At that place are then many shows on TV! It's difficult to remember!

So who was Phil? And why was Grace then shook upwards near his decease? If you lot keep watching Season iv, you'll become more answers in the following episodes, but if you're stuck on episode 7 and want some context, here'south a reminder:

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He's Sam Elliott! Grace and Frankie killed Sam Elliott offscreen!

Sam Elliott played Phil Milstein for four episodes in Season ii, which arrived dorsum in 2016. Basically, what Grace tells Robert is more than or less what happened in that storyline: Grace reconnected with Phil, the human being she desperately wanted to crook on Robert with way back in the day (simply didn't!). In the Season 2 episode "The Road Trip," Frankie used her amateur cyberspace sleuthing skills to track downward a Phil Milstein for Grace. Grace was freaked out by this, maxim that her timing with Phil was off fifteen years ago and she's likewise nervous to see him face-to-confront once more. But Frankie, of class, talks her into it and the two set off on a road trip.

Grace reconnects with Phil and tries to selection upwards where they left off, but there was one big hurdle: Phil was yet married. The "loophole," which the episode is named after, is that she is ill and not getting whatsoever better. Her memory is gone, and Phil needs companionship. Only Grace just can't practise that to Phil's wife, and she leaves him, breaking up the relationship she'd been thinking about for the past 15 years.

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Phil's death shocks Grace in Season iv, and it leads to fifty-fifty worse problem when Grace and Frankie'due south home needs drastic repairs made.SPOILER ALERTif you lot're still at the halfway point ofG&FFlavor 4, BTW. Instead of calling contractor Phil similar she would take, she brings in a rando who puts the CON in contractor past winning Grace'south trust by pretending to accept known Phil. When Grace and Frankie go back home after letting this con human being contractor practise his thing, they find that all of their pipes have been stolen, ripped out of the walls. The beach house is even more of a wreck and almost unlivable!

Who knows what would have happened ifGrace and Frankie brought Sam Elliott back for more in Flavor 4? Would he have competed with Peter Gallagher'southward Nick for Grace'southward affection? Would he have been able to repair their home, thus avoiding the dire situation the flavour concludes on? Sadly, nosotros'll never know because Phil–the one that got away–is no longer with us.

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