Tag: Derek Jacobi
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Last Tango in Halifax, Season 3, Episode 4
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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Last Tango in Halifax, Season 3, Episode 3
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
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 minutes from where episode 1 ended. Every spoiler imaginable ahead.
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Last Tango in Halifax, season 3 episode 1
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 Last Tango in Halifax for series 3. I’m going to be much briefer and rely…
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The Grand Marshalls from NYC PRIDE Parade Announce Themselves
I do love Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellan, who are starring together in the PBS comedy Vicious. The comedy in Vicious is about a bickering old gay couple with a funny love-hate relationship. But Jacobi and McKellan are charmingly themselves making this announcement. If you are in New York in June and attend PRIDE events, give them…
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Watch This: The Trailer for S3 of Last Tango in Halifax
A trailer for Last Tango in Halifax season 3 is finally available. The show starts airing on BBC One on December 28. No news yet on when it will cross the pond. To quote Celia, “They’re getting married. The lesbians.” Who says Anne Reid can’t deliver snark? She’s a master at it. But Alan (Derek…
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BBC’s Clever Treatment of Previews for New TV Season
Check out the BBC’s brilliant treatment of previews of the coming seasons for many of our favorite shows. Mixed among the previews are clips of shows from the past and present. I predict a rush to copy this style of preview sharing by all the networks. It’s a fantastic way to use the technology. They…
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Recap: Last Tango in Halifax, S2, E6
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 Caroline (Sarah Lancashire), Gillian (Nicola Walker) prods Caroline awake. Caroline struggles to sit up. Gillian…
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Recap: Last Tango in Halifax S2, E5
Episode 5 of Last Tango in Halifax begins in Harrogate where the Elliots are packing a car with William’s (Edward Ashley) things as he sets off for Oxford. A for sale sign is outside the driveway. John (Tony Gardner) and Caroline (Sarah Lancashire) take a moment to share a rancorous discussion about their divorce papers…