This Life +10

BBC2

The sacrificial lamb the gods required for This Life‘s resurrection was Ferdy and this was a good choice. He’s a shit actor, Ferdy was a shit character and further exploration of the non-existent sexual tension or flat-lining emotional spark between him and Warren would be a big fucking waste of everyone’s time. He worked a lot better as a plot contrivance to get the mid-Nineties house share back together, him being all dead and shit and the core five attending his funeral. Emotionally-charged reopening of festering wounds anyone? Gertcha!

"Miles is a successful hotel magnate happily married to the Vietnamese model Mi Wan Fuk who luv him long time."

At first, everything seems so splendid. Miles is a successful hotel magnate happily married to the Vietnamese model Mi Wan Fuk who luv him long time. Anna is back – now a successful barrister, off the booze and in the market for some spunk. No, not like that – she wants a wee bairn to round off her emotionally barren existence and is desperately seeking a sperm donor. It was good to see Anna return as a proper character and not the clich