Last Tango in Halifax (Seasons 1–5)

Last Tango in Halifax (2012) is a BBC drama series you can watch online on iFILM. Two widowed seventysomethings — Alan and Celia — reconnect through Facebook when their grandchildren set up the accounts, reviving a romance that fell apart more than sixty years ago.

Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid play the leads with the kind of settled ease that reads as actual shared history. Their adult daughters — Sarah Lancashire and Nicola Walker — carry their own complicated storylines, and writer Sally Wainwright refuses to let either thread thin out into sentiment. This is a show about people who have had entire lives and are choosing, late, to try again. Stream Last Tango in Halifax on iFILM.