Polly is a real ride or die
Just watching the series for the first time in about 20 years and on the penultimate episode. I’ve never really appreciated before how much she sacrifices to save Basil’s bacon, the shining fount of sanity and reason that she is, and honestly one of the best performances in the show.
Connie Booth really is a fantastic actress and her performance in The Anniversary really blew me away. I imagine people often overlook such performances because of the sitcom/farce setting.
You can tell that she and John Cleese had great chemistry to make this show starting as husband and wife and their divorce before the second series doesn’t impact it at all.