#some people were committed to ross and rachel — that didn’t even register for me bc it was all about Fran/Max Sheffield #one of the (many) reasons Love Actually gives me the shits it’s bc it refuses to acknowledge it’s all about the master/maid dynamic #and pretends it’s showing this varied and poetic spectrum #whereas The Nanny is like yeah we’re doing master/maid #TO THE HILT #every trope every joke every shippy stupid jane eyre emotional beat they label and OWN #and they did it all in canned laugher bewitched i love lucy style sitcom #AND I WAS IN LOOOOOOVE #it’s like if you’re gonna do faulein maria and captain vontrapp you need to REALLY DO IT #with zero illusions #(in other news: the fashions were so utterly righteous omg) #(again with my point about how the 90’s were not all about the kurt and courtney aesthetic - it was mostly high glam big hair and prints)