I would give it 10+...LOVED the series. Everyone I've recommended it to agreed with me. I just finished seeing it for the second time and loved it even more. Kudos to Sally Wainwright and all the actors involved for the telling of this wonderful story.

I've never seen a program with such frequent and sudden plot changes! The acting is most excellent however, I must say! Even in the very first episode, the actors seemed they had been playing the roles for years almost. Am I the only one who notices the sudden plot developments? I really would prefer to be able to savor the characters more if it slowed down just a few kilometers per hour. The players are most excellent and, even at the break-neck speed the plots are going, the characters are very believable, even likable. I suppose the pace has been set and will be maintained in this series. The one obvious theme in all this is that no one is to be trusted with any new information for more than five minutes. It does seem to be driving the plot along, however. I will keep watching this series as long as it is offered. The writers will be constantly challenged to keep this pace I do believe.

The cast is brilliant, the characters are 3 dimensional, and the setting is solid and real. I watched faithfully and enjoyed all last season and the first episode this season, until the absurd plot twists finally got to me. The story-lines are terrible now, completely unbelievable and unrelated to any viewer's home life.The producer and the writers have lost the thread and are trying too hard to come up with a plot. They need to step back and allow the characters to live their life a little bit. At this point throwing more stupid twists and turns into the story is detrimental to the whole presentation.It would be helpful to the cast as well. They have used up all their "wide-eyed astonishment" faces and it is cruel to ask them for more.

Too self - consciously "Yorkshire" by half,"Last Tango in Halifax" boasts plots so clichéd that soap writers would hesitate to churn them out(late onset homosexuality,previously unknown offspring,inter - racial sex(by gum that's a hot one,Ma)and characters over - familiar to anyone who has watched TV over the last 30 years. Miss Nicola Walker and Miss Sara Lancashire are the only cast members who look remotely comfortable,Miss Walker in her bodywarmer and wellies and Miss Lancashire in her Head Teacher's suit. Sir Derek Jacobi is badly miscast as a bluff/sensitive Yorkshireman with metropolitan values(not many of those to the pound round Halifax,I'd wager). He and Miss Anne Reed as his wife play the parents of the two aforementioned ladies who marry in their 70s not entirely to their children's liking. It has high production values,big names,and the BBC has thrown a lot of money at it to increase it's profile but it remains an afternoon soap in an expensive dress I'm afraid. If you've come to Miss Wainwright's work via the supreme "Happy Valley" you may well be disappointed.