Not sure why Kate decided to be with Nathan, when he clearly viewed her a second choice. I think it was more subtle and complex than that. He still loves Hannah; they've got too much history together for that to go away. But he also wants and needs to move on.
I think Hannah and Christie's relationship wouldn't survive reality, and that's why he wouldn't come back to London and she just allowed herself the fling (lucky Hannah!) and to daydream about it a bit. They were just harking back to being at law school, footloose and fancy-free.
I found it laughable that Hannah was ok with Nathan's pregnant GF coming round and playing happy families at the end. Again, I found it more complex than that. Not sure how 'OK' she was with it, but as she said to Kate, she has to live with her because Nathan and the kids will still be in her life. Basically Hannah had to be a grown-up, stop just resenting Kate and deal with it.
Nathan didn't sleep with anyone until after the split! He shagged someone from the dating site for married men, no?
Am I the only one who finds Nathan a bit wet??? No, he's utterly wet. 'didn't think about contraception'? FFS. I don't really rate Stephen Mangan as an actor, certainly not in this.
I thought he was very ungallant about Kate when Hannah asked for this Xmas with the kids and he made a 'joke' about being fine with a boxset and a takeaway. Won't he be spending it with Kate and the new baby?
I know they were well off but goodness how much is it going to cost to buy him out of the house? She wasn't buying him out. The deal was, she gets 18 months more in the house, then they sell and split the proceeds. I did wonder, though, if she could afford a big enough place on half the proceeds; she'll need bedrooms for at least the younger two kids plus herself, and maybe one for Liv when she comes back to visit.
Am I the only one who can't stand them way Ruth talk? It all just seems so false and weird, so unnatural. NO, I loathe it. I don't think she's a very good actor. Seen her on stage and she was basically the same.
Re Lily Cole, yes, it's true, if the donor actually has sex with the mother they are legally the father and can be on the birth certificate. They were meant to do it via AI but they actually had sex one drunken night and passed it off as AI. Hannah's dilemma was whether to stay out of it, which she should, ethically speaking, or tell the woman (or advise the donor to) so she can protect the mother properly. It was emotionally complicated because obviously the mother's wife took it as being cheated on (which it was), and the donor carried a torch for the mother.
Oh and Hannah going from collecting her drunk daughter from the nightclub, rowing with Nathan and his pg girlfriend, (whom she had time for verbal sparring with even though her daughter whom she was getting a glass of water for, was in danger of inhaling her own vomit) then turning up at Nathan's hotel room for a passionate reunion just didn't run to me.
I don't disagree with the sentiment, but being a pedant, it was a gig not a club, so not that late a night.
I liked the open ending. I choose to believe/dream that Christie will grow up, come to London and make an effort to integrate into the family for the love of Hannah yeah right
And I like to think Rose and the vicar will get together when the time is right.