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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 208752" data-attributes="member: 23">I finished dinnerladies the night before last, and thought it was wrapped up in a nicely satisfying way.The romance between Bren and Tony was nice enough, though I found it got towards the edge of my tolerance for such things. One of the few moments that got a wince from me was when they kissed in front of the Christmas tree and the audience gave a loud "ooooooh". Even with our tradition of panto, something about it seemed too demonstrative and interactive. And un-British. We might expect this kind of thing in Cheers or Friends, but I think British sitcom audiences should limit their engagement to the laughs. And perhaps the requisite assortment of coughs and the occasional throat clearing.All the same, the romantic stuff and "serious" moments were tolerable enough. I remembered them as being more pervasive than they were, which has put me off revisiting it sooner.I felt dread at the death of Bren's mother in case it was going to take a saccharine turn, but appreciated that it kept its wryness.It's nice that every character got their share of the limelight. There were also some nice outbursts from Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston and of course Thelma Barlow:[MEDIA=youtube]tPTgNVZbj4I[/MEDIA]</blockquote>