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Review: Dark River

Leave a Comment / Movies, Streaming / By Virginia DeBolt / October 11, 2019 / Clio Barnard, Dark River, Dean Andrews, Esme Creed-Miles, foreign films, Joe Dempsie, Mark Stanley, Ruth Wilson, Women Directors

Dark River is an intimate family drama that tells a story of trauma, alienation, and tragedy.

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Sarah Lancashire and Nicola Walker in Last Tango in Halifax

Last Tango in Halifax S4 E2 The Christmas Special Pt. 2

11 Comments / TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / December 21, 2016 / #eldersrock, Dean Andrews, Derek Jacobi, episode 2, Felix Johnson, foreign tv series, Josh Bolt, Juliet May, Katherine Rose Morley, Last Tango in Halifax, Lorraine Burroughs, Lost Girl, Louis Greatorex, Nicola Walker, Paul Amos, Paul Copley, Ronni Ancona, Sally Wainwright, Sarah Lancashire, season 4, The Christmas Special, Tony Gardner, Women Directors

Last Tango in Halifax S4 E2 is Part Two of The Christmas Special. Holy Moly! What an episode! Stirring, momentous scenes between Caroline (Sarah Lancashire) and Gillian (Nicola Walker) and between Gillian and Robbie (Dean Andrews). Beware the spoilers.

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Anne Reid, Derek Jacobi, Nicola Walker and Sarah Lancashire in Last Tango in Halifax

Last Tango in Halifax, S4 E1 – The Christmas Special

4 Comments / TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / December 20, 2016 / #eldersrock, Anne Reid, Christmas Special, Dean Andrews, Dean Smith, Derek Jacobi, episode 1, foreign tv series, Josh Bolt, Juliet May, Katherine Rose Morley, Last Tango in Halifax, Lorraine Burroughs, Louis Greatorex, Marcus Garvey, Nicola Walker, Paul Copley, Ronni Ancona, Sally Wainwright, Sarah Lancashire, season 4, Tony Gardner, Women Directors

Last Tango in Halifax season 4, episode 1 is the first hour of the 2016 Christmas special for this BBC series. It’s been 18 months or so since the last episode of series 3 when Gillian (Nicola Walker) and Robbie

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Caroline, Alan and Gillian beside the Jeep

Last Tango in Halifax: S3 E6

22 Comments / TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / August 2, 2015 / #eldersrock, Anne Reid, Dean Andrews, Derek Jacobi, episode 6, Felix Johnson, foreign tv series, Jaz Martin, Josh Bolt, Kate Isitt, Katherine Rose Morley, Last Tango in Halifax, Louis Greatorex, Marcus Garvey, Nicola Walker, Nina Sosanya, Paul Copley, Rupert Graves, Sarah Lancasire, season 3, series 3, Tony Gardner

The season 3 finale of Last Tango in Halifax takes place on Gillian (Nicola Walker) and Robbie’s (Dean Andrews) wedding day. The day is mainly a series of comic disasters overlaid with the faint aroma of horse shit. There are

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Caroline with the baby and a ghostly Kate

Last Tango in Halifax: S3 E5

20 Comments / TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / July 26, 2015 / #eldersrock, Anne Reid, Cara Theobold, Dean Andrews, Derek Jacobi, episode 5, Felix Johnson, foreign tv series, Jaz Martin, Josh Bolt, Katherine Rose Morley, Last Tango in Halifax, Louis Greatorex, Marcus Garvey, Nicola Walker, Nina Sosanya, Rupert Graves, Sarah Lancashire, season 3, series 3, Tony Gardner

Episode 5 of Last Tango in Halifax starts with a bang when Lawrence (Louis Greatorex) pulls a prank on the boys at school who put the sign on his back. By bang, I mean he tossed some firecrackers at them

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Last Tango in Halifax, Season 3, Episode 4

29 Comments / TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / July 19, 2015 / #eldersrock, Anne Reid, Cara Theobold, Dean Andrews, Dean Smith, Derek Jacobi, elders rock, episode 4, foreign tv series, Happy Valley, Josh Bolt, Katherine Rose Morley, Last Tango in Halifax, Louis Greatorex, Marcus Garvey, Michelle Hurst, Nicola Walker, Nina Sosanya, Orange is the New Black, Rupert Graves, Sally Wainwright, Sarah Lancashire, Scott & Bailey, season 3, series 3, Syd Macartney, Tony Gardner

This episode is about grief, about dealing with loss, about flailing for the right choice when all of the choices are wrong, and about being there for the people who need you. There are spoilers ahead.

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Sarah Lancashire and Nina Sosanya in Last Tango in Halifax

Last Tango in Halifax, Season 3, Episode 3

14 Comments / TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / July 12, 2015 / #eldersrock, Anne Reid, Dean Andrews, Dean Smith, Derek Jacobi, episode 3, Felix Johnson, foreign tv series, Josh Bolt, Kate Isitt, Katherine Rose Morley, Last Tango in Halifax, Louis Greatorex, Nicola Walker, Nina Sosanya, Paul Copley, Rupert Graves, Sarah Lancashire, season 3, series 3, Tony Gardner

Be glad to start episode 3 of Last Tango in Halifax in your happy place because you’re in for a bumpy night by the end. Every word that follows is a spoiler.

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Last Tango in Halifax: Season 3 Episode 2

11 Comments / TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / July 5, 2015 / #eldersrock, Anne Reid, Dean Andrews, Dean Smith, Derek Jacobi, episode 2, foreign tv series, Josh Bolt, Katherine Rose Morley, Last Tango in Halifax, Louis Greatorex, Nicola Walker, Nina Sosanya, Rachel Leskovac, Rupert Graves, Sally Wainwright, Sarah Lancashire, season 3, series 3, Tony Gardner

Episode 2 of Last Tango in Halifax in season 3 of this BBC series is a painful one. Pain from old wounds and betrayals still unforgiven come forth from the past to color and hurt again today. It begins mere

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Last Tango in Halifax, season 3 episode 1

4 Comments / TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / June 28, 2015 / #eldersrock, Anne Reid, Dean Andrews, Derek Jacobi, episode 1, Felix Johnson, foreign tv series, Katherine Rose Morley, Last Tango in Halifax, Louis Greatorex, Nicola Walker, Nigel Cole, Nina Sosanya, Paul Copley, Rupert Graves, Sarah Lancashire, season 3, series 3, Tony Gardner

Last Tango in Halifax begins season 3 on Valentine’s Day. Several important things happen on Valentine’s Day that require a lot of processing on the part of the characters in Last Tango in Halifax. I’m changing the way I recap

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Recap: Last Tango in Halifax, S2, E6

10 Comments / TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / August 4, 2014 / Anne Reid, Dean Andrews, Derek Jacobi, Edward Ashley, elders rock, episode 6, Felix Johnson, foreign tv series, Gemma Jones, Josh Bolt, Last Tango in Halifax, Louis Greatorex, Nicola Walker, Nina Sosanya, Sally Wainwright, Sarah Lancashire, season 2, series 2, Timothy West, Tony Gardner

The final episode of season 2 of Last Tango in Halifax lurches to a grim beginning and works its way through a lot of laughs to a mostly happy season conclusion. On the farm, the morning after her confession to

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