The Green Glove Gang review: Seasons 1 and 2 of this Polish comedy

The Green Glove Gang is a charming Polish comedy series about a gang of older women who are expert thieves. They give the loot they collect to those in need or use it to set justice right. This review was published earlier and has been updated to include information about The Green Glove Gang 2.

Season 1

The Green Glove Gang runs into a problem when a tattoo on the wrist of Kinga (Malgorzata Potocka) is identified. The women go into hiding.

The gang includes Kinga, with the tattoo. Zuza (Magdalena Kuta) is the mastermind. Alicja (Anna Romantowska) has psychic abilities and is never wrong about her predictions.

They hide in the Second Home nursing home, a place inhabited by slowly disintegrating elders and run by the evil villain stealing their money, their heirlooms, and their spirits, Marzena (Beata Bandurska).

In the nursing home, the sexy Kinga pretends to be disabled and carries a cane. She spreads pheromones everywhere she goes and men trail her like bees on honey. She jumps from rooftops and is a first class burglar.

Zuza has a well worked out plan for everything. She’s the master of detail and has the equipment to back up her ideas. Naturally she enters the nursing home pretending to be losing her mind.

Alicja handles electronics and internet and Tarot and knows just when the phone will ring. She has a white cane and dark glasses that supposedly make her appear blind, but she’s anything but convincing as a blind woman.

Marzena is in cahoots with an undertaker, his two assistants, and a pawnbroker. They run an art stealing ring and manage to resell various kinds of jewelry and other goods they steal. All of them are a problem for the ladies in the green glove gang. Each side is trying to shut the other down.

Complicating this funny drama are the police. An about-to-retire Police commissioner (Miroslaw Zbrojewicz) and his clever female detective (Karolina Rzepa) are after the gang. A series of accidents, tips, missteps, and funny encounters lead them to arrest someone by the end of the final episode of season 1. But it isn’t the right someone.

The three heroines are so alive and so free. They liven up the nursing home and bring people back from waiting to die to living large. By the end of season 1, the nursing home residents are in on the schemes to bring down the evildoers and evade the police.

The three women were lifelong friends and loved each other dearly. While in the nursing home they came to love all the only slightly older residents there.

With eight episodes of about 30 minutes each, this Netflix comedy is a quick binge. The series is funny, but the real delight is in seeing all these older characters carry a series with grace and verve.

Season 2

In The Green Glove Gang 2, all the elders have left the nursing home and are living together in peace. The former head of the care home, Marzena, is in jail. Life is good.

The gang have stopped stealing, although the police are still looking for them.

Then Zuza’s son is attacked because is hasn’t paid back a big loan. His debt will be forgiven if the gang steals a famous Venus fertility statue from an art museum. The gang has a plan and it should work just fine except Marzena is out of jail now and working in the museum as a guard. She convinced the silly policeman she could produce the gang if she were set free.

The gang outsmarts everyone. The entire gaggle of elders who hang around with them now are in on it. The fun is in watching this bunch of old folks pull off some big stunts and surprises. I also enjoyed the never-ending joke about meat loaf.

The trailer gives you a taste.

Season 2 is as much fun as season 1, and the friendship between the three women remains unbreakable. It’s a delightful series and worth watching.