I love this movie so much

Wonderful character development!

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Started out wonderful. Love the actors. Have enjoyed them in other series. Started going downhill by episode 6. My opinion is personal and my own. Don't need to be lectured about modern morals. The character Caroline is unloving, thoughtless, selfish and treats her mother disrespectfully. The actor portrays an awful daughter and overall an awful person! If I was her husband, I would've left her too. Alan claims to love Celia but after 50 years of pining for her, he can't accept her as a real person with differences of opinions? Not very believable. And not very nice of him as this is a double standard. Wouldn't make for a very stable marriage when one party is not entitled to have their own feelings. Of course all is well when poor Celia has a change of heart. I watch shows to be entertained. This is not entertainment. This is preaching, proselytizing, and the writers' own agendas. Very disappointed.

"Last Tango in Halifax" (2012) is a BBC miniseries that will have run for four seasons. Each episode is about an hour long. I'm reviewing the first six episodes--the entire first season. The series is written by Sally Wainwright. Different episodes have different directors.The key plot point is that Celia (Anne Reid) and Alan (Derek Jacobi) were in love with the other as teenagers. For complicated reasons they were parted, and lived separate lives for 60 years. They are reunited via Facebook, and they fall back in love. (All this is seen in the first 20 minutes of the first episode, so I'm not giving anything away.)Each has raised a daughter. Alan's daughter Gillian (Nicola Walker) and Celia's daughter Caroline (Sarah Lancashire) have gone down very different paths. Gillian is a widow. Caroline is in an estranged relationship with her husband John (Tony Gardner).I've already named five characters, but there are more. What's amazing is that the actors portraying each character are all truly excellent. There's not a weak link among them. The BBC has the unique ability to find great actors, and to enable them to work together seamlessly.Derek Jacobi is a famous Shakespearean actor, so we expect great things from him. However, the other actors keep pace with him. If I had to single one of them out, it would be Tony Gardner, as Caroline's husband, John. John is a cheat and an opportunist, but, when he's on screen, he dominates the scene with his very believable and often successful opportunism.This miniseries was produced for TV, so, of course, it works well on the small screen. If you missed it in 2012, you owe it to yourself to see it now. It's melodramatic, but that's what makes it interesting. Some reviewers have called it a BBC soap opera, but I don't agree. It has the look and feel of a first-rate movie, the production values are high, and the acting is superb. If you don't like it, you can always stop watching after the first episode. Trust me--you'll choose to see all six episodes, and then you'll order Season Two and Season Three.

The first two episodes are a lovely story about an old couple who are reunited after half a century apart and decide to marry. This was ace, with one problem, explained below.In episode three it turns into a soap opera about their dysfunctional families, with implausible plot lines.If you like soap operas then probably you will think the whole thing is just great but if you are looking for something exceptional then stop after the second episode and pretend it was a two part film.The problem with the old couple was that the character of Alan is rather pathetic. He has no self confidence and rarely takes control of a situation when he is with his wife to be. He actually seems rather more feminine than his fiancée and it is difficult to believe that she would find him attractive.

I completely fell in love with this series. This was real people with faults and skeletons in the closet just like the rest of us, not that perfect sugar coated s**t produced by "Hollywood" (Hey guys, we aren't all 20 years old throughout life, beautiful and wakes up with perfect makeup everyday). The writers really thought things through. Every time the storyline takes a twist it either seems like it will be the end of the world or as it is the best thing to ever happen, but then the negative sides start to appear in the perfect facade or new possibilities emerge from the devastating news. Because that is what happens in real life. I'm looking forward to season 4, and I am hoping that there will be a lot more of them.