Fonda, Tomlin shine in new Netflix comedy

Thirty-five years after starring in “9 to 5,” showbiz icons Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin are back together again. In “Grace and Frankie,” an amusing original series from Netflix, they play a couple of women coping with the fallout from an emotional bombshell.

That shocker comes in the show’s opening scene: Summoned to a restaurant by their law-partner husbands of 40 years (Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston), Grace (Fonda) and Frankie (Tomlin) learn that the men are gay and are about to leave them for each other.

The women are devastated. “You mean you’re gay and this is who you’re gay with?” Frankie asks incredulously. Grace immediately feels the need to throw up.

This is where “Grace and Frankie” morphs into another twist on the overly familiar “Odd Couple” concept. Turns out that these golden girls have never really liked each other, even though their families have been linked for more than 40 years. Grace is a button-down, Type-A WASP, and Frankie is a “hippy-dippy” free spirit who has a thing for mind-altering substances.

But now they are sisters in grief, experiencing a similar kind of domestic turbulence. Where do they go from here? How do they explain it to their kids? Were they leading fraudulent lives all these years? Slowly but surely, they begin to form an unlikely bond.

That bond produces plenty of easy jokes and predictable, sit-commy scenarios. Somehow, for example, you just knew Grace and Frankie would get high together on a beach while wallowing in their existential angst.

But the writing, which delivers humor and heartbreak in near equal measure, contains enough observational shrewdness to keep the endeavor engaging. And the performances by this all-star cast don’t hurt, either.

Fonda and Tomlin, still live-wires after all these years, bring their A-games. Just seeing them sharing the screen is enough to put a smile on your face. They’re funny, fierce and absolutely glorious.