this be a great show about a deeply insecure woman with intense emotional problem . the show catalogue a lifetime of pretence and despair and the pain she inflict on others most notably her daughter in law . i wasn not old enough to see her show the first time but i remember the infamous blue boil egg and the green mashed potato as well a other equally hideous food . her treatment of the die johnny when she couldn not even bring herself to visit him in hospital seem especially harsh but fanny suffer from her own demon which seem to torment her constantly .