Last Tango in Halifax - final episode, BBC One, review - Telegraph Life's ups and downs, major and minor, are what Sally Wainwright's wonderfully warm-hearted drama Last Tango In Halifax is all about, and that's how the second season came to a close; with some lovely ups, and a few downs. Perhaps the biggest up was the news that the BBC has already commissioned a third season, although it would have been a travesty had it not, given Last Tango's rare blend of high quality and broad appeal. In terms of the drama itself, the best scenes were of Alan (Derek Jacobi) and Celia's (Anne Reid) wedding - or the renewal of their vows rather, as they already got hitched earlier this season. For viewers who like a screen wedding, this had it all: the vows, the speeches, the drunken dancing late into the night. For those of us who have taken these characters to our hearts, it was so perfectly judged in atmosphere we might as well have been there enjoying it in person. Not least when the septuagenarian groom launched into a rendition of If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body, which in any other hands could have been cringe-making. Instead it managed to be charming and funny, and reminded us that one of the central themes of this drama has always been that older people have passions too. Less successful were Wainwright's efforts to tie up so many of the dizzying number of storylines she created for this second series. The result was an episode that felt less joyfully free flowing than its predecessors, a little too tangled up in talk and explanation that killed the pace in parts. Caroline's (Sarah Lancashire) reunion with Kate (Nina Sosanya) for instance, while happy-making, felt slightly forced and could just as easily have been left open until next season. And the fallout from Gillian's (Nicola Walker's) drunken confession to Caroline that she had done away with her husband assumed a weight that was a odds with everything else and dragged the mood down. To be fair, this was one storyline that was left very much open and holds the key to next season, which everything seems to indicate will see the focus of Last Tango shift away from Alan and Celia and on to Gillian and Caroline's evermore complicated friendship. Wainwright certainly ensured we'll all be kept on tenterhooks until then then with a brilliant closing scene of Gillian and her on-again boyfriend Robbie (Dean Andrews) in bed that captured, without a single word, the catastrophic consequences that will certainly ensue if she doesn't keep her trap shut about the past. I for one can't wait to find out what Wainwright has in store for Gillian and the rest of Last Tango's intoxicating cast of characters next time round.