Last
Tango In Halifax: Season 2 (2013/BBC DVD Set)
Picture:
B- Sound: B- Extras: D Episodes: A-
They're
old, but they aren't dead yet. Welcome back to Season 2 of
Last Tango in Halifax (we did not expect a follow-up season,
but you can read about the first elsewhere on this site), as Alan and
Celia finally decide to get married, their own daughters question
their sanity for doing so (and their own peace of mind). As Caroline
continues deal with her own divorce and her new lesbian love life,
Gillian tries to hide that she been sleeping with Caroline's
ex-husband John. As the wedding draws closer more and more of their
secrets and skeletons begin falling out of the closet, the question
becomes which will happen first, the wedding or their new family
members tearing each other apart?
Caroline
is a woman turned lesbian after catching her ex-husband cheating on
her (again), she works in the city as the headmistress of a private
school. While Gillian lives in the countryside running her farm, she
deals with her own father complex by having sympathy sex with
whomever she can. Alan and Celia have been star-crossed lovers since
they were kids, but after 60 years, raised their families, widowed,
and they finally decided to get together, but as their families get
closer, so does complexity of their various 'family' relationships.
The
BBC (or Beeb) done it again, its created a great series about drama,
marriage and family. I guess the British can have just as complex
family problems as Americans. Each episode someone either cheated on
someone, or had some new affair or someone gets pregnant out of
marriage. It seems in this particular series everyone is having a
relationship with everyone but the person they are to be faithful to.
Seems like all family dramas are trending that the modern family is
having multiple partners in nature, that second marriages and affairs
are now part of the norm. The anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image
and lossy Dolby Digital sound are just fine for the format, but there
are no extras.
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Ricky Chiang
