Okay, bear with me, lol. I’ve given the Sherlock Holmes tag to the Absolutely Fabulous duo. Let me explain.
When I was watching the Cumberpatch/Freeman Sherlock, their relationship suddenly made me think of AbFab. One of the team is a silly basketcase (Watson, as he’s written for this series), and one is completely cool. Now, Patsy is no detective mastermind, but within the fashion-oriented world of AbFab, she is a consulting savant.
Yes, I’m comparing Patsy Stone to Sherlock Holmes.
And Edina Monsoon, with all of her fake Buddhist chanting and colonic remedies, to Dr. Watson.
They are the antithesis of the Sherlock archetype. It’s impossible to get any further from it. I find it hilarious that, while watching a Sherlock show, I was reminded of these two. However, Eddie and Patsy are a Four/Nine duo living in the best aspects of their Enneagrams.
Patsy, as the Nine, is stoic and dispassionate. Eddie the Four feels everything — everything — for the both of them. Their lifelong friendship, even though it portrays a codependency, is loving and charming. The Cumberpatch/Freeman Sherlock is building something very similar, except the Enneagram numbers are flipped. A Four who feels nothing, as Sherlock does, will never build a healthy partnership with a Nine who carries the emotional load.
As you can see, this post is just an excuse to continue my complaint against the Sherlock series. It’s based, though, in a dedicated passion for AbFab, a ridiculous wonderment of female devotion. I continue to rewatch it every few years. Saunders and Lumley have created something true, even if it’s exaggerated.
(And even more hilariously, I’ve created an Eddie toon in my Fallout 76 playthrough. She’s a ghoul — a wrinkled, noseless, undying social reject. Like a classic episode of AbFab, Eddie pursued a questionable beauty treatment with unexpected consequences. It’s all good, though. She looks refreshed.)
