Quote of the week: an indignant Omar on his blissfully ignorant grandma: "That woman think I work in a cafeteria – at the airport!" Murders: still on 50, but Prez does accidently kills another policeman – a distractingly overdramatic subplot for this point in the series?
Don't think grandma with her wicker shopping basket on the hunt for potato salad and Wiener schnitzel.
"Poor people can't afford to buy cheap things," my Grandma always used to say, and I think this is what Westwood is getting at.
I was 15 when I had my first period, just like my mother, my aunties and my grandma.
"Shelley is my only biological child, but she and Cass and Maya always look out for each other and if I become infirm and need care, she's not going to be on her own thinking, 'I'm the only child.'" Plus, age has softened her: having been scornful of the word mum, she is very happy to be known as grandma.
"I don't think Prince William would agree to hand me the award if he thought I had blown it in terms of performing as his grandma," she said.
There's something pleasing about the idea of dispensing with the usual cut-price cava in favour of dressing as Flash Gordon and topping up grandma as she listens to Carols from King's.
He created a makeshift studio at home and started DJing at older people's weddings ("They paid more"), playing the northern soul and Motown tunes his mother listened to, "standing there watching my grandad make out with my grandma for six hours".
Slim Charles yells: "I'm standing holding a torn-up church crown of a bona fide coloured lady" as a funeral service echoes behind him, while Omar himself seems to believe he could safely take his grandma to church every month because "ain't nobody in this city that low down to disrespect a Sunday morning".
There's zany grandma Kris.
How can you discuss the trade-offs of health-care reform, for example, with someone who thinks the government is plotting to kill grandma?
