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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 336930" data-attributes="member: 23">Inevitably, A Fine Romance reached its quiet ending last night. With the penultimate episode seeing Mike and Laura becoming engaged, it felt almost a certainty that things would wrap up with a refined-but-low-key sitcom marriage. Instead, the ending was so downbeat it was almost forgettable. Which felt perfect!With just five minutes left, Mike and Laura had lost out on the dream countryside home on which they&#039;d made an offer; had realised that - despite planning to marry - they still hadn&#039;t reconciled or even discussed their differences over wanting children that had caused them to separate in the first place; and were as unhappy and confused as ever. When Laura tearfully ran out of the room, leaving Mike, Helen, Phil and her parents looking devastated, it seemed there was no way back and I found myself thinking perhaps this wasn&#039;t the final episode - that perhaps I still had one left. But it was the final episode. And in true Laura and Mike style it ended with them having a quiet, stilted, awkward conversation, struggling to find the words, but still reaching some kind of compromise and understanding. The final episode was called Happy Ever After?, and the question mark is significant, because there&#039;s a sense that the two will continue on with their miscommunication and fallouts, but will be OK in the end. It&#039;s not about the Big Dream, but the struggle to find it, and it comes across that they have committed to struggling through together. It&#039;s very Bob Larbey, and these two wonderful performers do full justice to the very human understated simplicity of it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 336930, member: 23"] Inevitably, [I]A Fine Romance [/I]reached its quiet ending last night. With the penultimate episode seeing Mike and Laura becoming engaged, it felt almost a certainty that things would wrap up with a refined-but-low-key sitcom marriage. Instead, the ending was so downbeat it was almost forgettable. Which felt perfect! With just five minutes left, Mike and Laura had lost out on the dream countryside home on which they'd made an offer; had realised that - despite planning to marry - they still hadn't reconciled or even discussed their differences over wanting children that had caused them to separate in the first place; and were as unhappy and confused as ever. When Laura tearfully ran out of the room, leaving Mike, Helen, Phil and her parents looking devastated, it seemed there was no way back and I found myself thinking perhaps this [I]wasn't[/I] the final episode - that perhaps I still had one left. But it [I]was[/I] the final episode. And in true Laura and Mike style it ended with them having a quiet, stilted, awkward conversation, struggling to find the words, but still reaching some kind of compromise and understanding. The final episode was called [I]Happy Ever After?,[/I] and the question mark is significant, because there's a sense that the two will continue on with their miscommunication and fallouts, but will be OK in the end. It's not about the Big Dream, but the struggle to find it, and it comes across that they have committed to struggling through together. It's very Bob Larbey, and these two wonderful performers do full justice to the very human understated simplicity of it. [/QUOTE]

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