Series 1-4 of Last Tango In Halifax a bit hazy in your memory?
Heres a summary of what you should probably remember before the new series…
Warning: contains major series 1-4 plot spoilers.
You know the feeling that some writers are plugged into different mains power to everyone else?
Theyre sucking juice from some obscure source that makes their work hover ten feet off the ground?
Sally Wainwrights one of those.
Her dialogue is recognisable at twenty paces.
Her characters are people youd swap your best friends to know.
Shes funnier than most stand-ups and spins yarns better than a sailor.
Particularly though, in Halifax.
Its a self-deprecating gag of a title, a good-value joke slipped in before weve even stated.
Celia reunited with her estranged sister Muriel while Alans brother Ted flew over from New Zealand.
2016s two-part Christmas special saw the pair take part in an amateur dramatics production of Noel Cowards Blithe Spirit.
They married, but right afterwards Kate was knocked down by a car and rushed to hospital.
Kate died but the baby Flora Grace survived, leaving Caroline a widow with a new-born.
Rejecting Johns nonsensical offer to get back together, Caroline raised Flora and gently said goodbye to Kate.
Gillian got together with Robbie and married him, despite sleeping with two other men while they were engaged.
At his mums wedding, Ellie proposed to Raff and between series four and five, the pair married.
They still live at Gillians farm with Calamity.
Disgruntled novelist Johns affair with alcoholic Judith turned into a long-term relationship.
He left Caroline for her, moving in together when Judith became pregnant, before she suffered a miscarriage.
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