The impossible dream of 'The Golden Girls'

It is touching that Betty White, the eldest of

, is the sole survivor of the cast, as her character, Rose Nylund, represented peasant naivety and the most comical candor.

She did not understand the world and needed the constant protection of her friends, bored of listening to her little battles from Saint Olaf, Minnesota (or Senolaf, for the Spanish who still did not see the series with subtitles).

In the cast of archetypes of the sarcastic puppet that was the series, Dorothy represented disenchantment;

Sophia, a diminished Mephistopheles, and Blanche, the roses of the huer ...

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