Let everybody else watch those Golden Girls marathons. We'll pay tribute to Rue McClanahan after her Thursday death by savoring the actress' most recent, and most raucous, series work.
Sordid Lives runs in marathon form on LOGO Sunday night 8 p.m.-2 a.m. ET -- all 12 episodes of the trailer park trashcom in which McClanahan plays matriarch to a screwy crew of drunks, pill poppers, closet gays, amputees, and male Tammy Wynette wannabes.
What's not to love?
Slumming alongside her are such delights as Bonnie Bedelia (her "good" but drugged-out daughter), Leslie Jordan (her Wynette-warbling son), Caroline Rhea (just a loony neighbor), and Olivia Newton-John (her ex-con bar singer pal).
Read up on Sordid Lives: The Series, watch Rue talk about the show, or check out the family tree in the series trailer. The entire series is also out on extras-laden DVD (here from Amazon.com, but cheaper here from Amazon.ca, which ships efficiently to the States).
McClanahan's work on The Golden Girls can be found all over the place, too, starting with June 4's Friday night marathon on WE (5 p.m.-1 a.m. ET). The girls air regularly on two channels -- on Hallmark weekdays 9 a.m.-11 a.m. ET and weeknights 11 p.m.-1 a.m. ET; and on WE weekdays 5-7 p.m. ET.
Both WE and Hallmark are collecting Rue recollections from fans online.