I feel that this show would greatly benefit from losing the Helen character. I know she's a good actress, but she's just taking up space on a show where things are deliberately slow pace, and could do better elsewhere.The other actors are compelling and the story is fantastic. I love this show.

It's so good to find a series with characters that the viewer can get involved in - and even better when it has a plot and action that we can all identify with, either because we've been involved in an affair or at least thought about it. It's pretty rare these days to find something that's worth watching and with an interesting plot development rather than the usual trite "pap for the popcorn-guzzling masses" that seems to be endlessly churned out by the studios. For a change the action isn't telegraphed for the hard of comprehension and the plot mirrors the twists and turns of real life.I've been in some of these situations and it's fascinating to compare how they played out in my own life and in the minds and actions of the characters here.There is one down-side though: we've all had to get used to the "Previously on..." section at or near the start where we're ruthlessly robbed of a few minutes of the program, together with a theme song and video clip that together ends up stealing half an episode every season, but who on earth okayed Fiona Apple caterwauling this annoying dirge - and PLEASE tell me that no-one actually paid for it....

I absolutely loved the first two seasons. I was obsessed! But, unfortunately, the third season was awful. The prison guard stuff, the stabbing, the French lady and her husband, Vik, the mother-in-law, Luisa, the daughter's gross boyfriend, Noah's family... all of it. It was just painful to watch. Hopefully, season 4 can return to it's previous glory. If not, hopefully it will be the final season. Then we might be able to remember it fondly, instead of watching it die a slow death.

There is something about this show which makes it utterly interesting and seductive at the same time.