It's fair to say that Him & Her's format jigging gives the final run a bit of a special feel, but, as ever, the show is sold on the understated brilliance of Sarah Solemani and Russell Tovey. We're really gonna miss popping round to the bedsit.

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Christmas Day is a typically unsophisticated affair in Becky and Steve's grotty flat. Stolen champagne is sipped out of faded mugs, a half-gobbled turkey lies forgotten on the bed and Laura wields a karaoke machine with malicious intent.

Steve tries to be welcoming when his estranged dad turns up on the doorstep, while Becky swallows her disdain by scoffing any foodstuff to hand. As usual, there's something lovable about this uncouth couple - and watching their shabby festivities is strangely uplifting.

Christmas or no Christmas, we join Becky and Steve in bed. They're tearing the meat from a turkey and dunking it in mugs of gravy. It's little moments like this that get to the heart of TV's sweetest, most believable love affair. The tranquillity can't last, though - inevitably Laura and Paul have soon arrived, toting their karaoke machine. They're followed by Dan and Shelley and Steve's long-estranged dad. Laura's her usual monstrous self - her unremitting hideousness is arguably the show's one false note - but there's a lovely, understated kitchen scene between Steve and his father which is worth the admission on its own. None of the bells and whistles of your average Christmas special, but a singular charm all of its own.

Poor old Steve (Russell Tovey) has spent the whole series trying to pluck up the courage to propose to an unsuspecting Becky (and stealing the ring back off her light-fingered sister Laura). Tonight is the perfect moment - their first anniversary - so your heart will go out to Steve when Laura barges through the door, even viler than usual. Don't forget to tune in to the Christmas special next week.

Steve finally asks Becky to marry him, in Him & Her. This proposal is way better than Lord Walderhurst's [from The Making of a Lady ITV drama] - even though it all goes wrong, and it includes the line: "I get bored when you're on the loo." No, actually because it all goes wrong, and because it contains that line. Isn't that about as romantic as you can possibly get, to miss someone even when they go to the loo?

Anyway, it's gorgeous. I was choking up. And the good news is that's not the end of it; there's a Christmas special next week. I bloody love Him & Her; it's just about the warmest, funniest thing on the telly right now. It's whatever the opposite of dregs is? The bubbles? The cream? Whatever - that.

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The third Him & Her series, in summation, may not have captured my heart as much as the first two, but the ending has done a lot to keep me invested. Even if I am worried that the fourth series will be dull wedding preparations.