The tiniest bit of mid-season drift is remedied by a party episode filled with all the best minor characters: Fergal (Jonathan Forbes) is back to celebrate his 40th birthday, a fiasco that ends up looking rather like a Renaissance painting - featuring, unforgettably, Douglas Hodge on bass and drums.

Review: Women on the Verge

It picks away at modern neurosis the way you pull at a loose stitch, or the quick of your thumb - with the funny, fierce instinct that everything, and everyone, is steadily unravelling.

Catastrophe, Series 3, review - 'the end of the road?'

Good grief? Channel 4's marital sitcom turns deadly serious.