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PROFESSIONAL Paddy’ Adam Williams has a dilemma .... does he choose halloumi or whitebait? His best pal Pete Gifford, though, is not the man to advise. Pete is slower than a snail and really does think Adam is talking about food. And don’t you just know it, Pete loves Greek food.
This, of course, is where Adam (James Nesbitt) and Pete (John Thomson) are at in their middle age as we approach the climax of the latest series of Cold Feet.
Adam is ravenous, of course. He’s trying to give young love Tina the baby she longs for while in between times getting a little extra practice with his oh-so-sweet but slightly Psycho co-worker Sarah.
Pete and his wife Jenny meanwhile feel weighed down... or is that just his side of the bed?
But let’s just leave the glum Giffords to sulk while we see what Cold Feet’s new maven, Sarah Poynter is up to.
Sarah, our very own Amy Huberman, made a promising cameo in the last series as the wronged wife of cheating Jamie who takes up with Tina, Adam’s landlady and the object of his flirtations.
Her part is built up over this series and so is the tension.
It’s a surprise to absolutely no-one that Tina and Adam inevitably went onto seal the deal last series and they inevitably move in together this series.
In any other scenario other than tellyland that’s where it would have stayed. But lo and behold, Sarah turns up at Adam’s work, and he blurts that fact out to Tina.
Of course, Adam being Adam he reaches for the forbidden fruit.
Trouble in Paradise? Not yet… Adam slithers his way out of it only for Sarah to turn up at his 50th birthday bash to hit him with the ultimate stinger in front of his friends: ‘I thought you said you’d come to see me.’
Sarah had earlier revealed in Adam’s hotel room that she had only joined his firm so that she could make a play for him and so she could see Tina squirm.
You’d think, of course at this point, that your sympathy would lean towards Tina.
But she has the type of voice that goes right through you and that annoying jauntiness which makes you want to just hold her by the shoulders and shout, ‘Stop.’
And little Sarah has those pleading eyes and lost girl innocence which makes you want to just give her a cuddle.
What’s more, didn’t she fess up and isn’t she now just lovestruck.
And so we are back to Adam and his dilemma and Pete and his need for comfort food.
Of course, no season-ender would be complete unless the whole gang get together to betroth their undying love and friendship for each other. And so it comes to pass. Pete and Jenny renew their vows with Adam acting as minister of love; David (Robert Bathurst) cosies up to new love Nikki (Siobhan Finneran) whom he has wrestled – rather unrealistically – from gangster George (Robert Glenister); and Karen (Hermione Norris)... well what does Karen do?
But it’s Sarah who we’re really missing here... none more so than Adam.
Tina has the nous to know it and they smile and kiss goodbye for the last time.
A minute later and still left on the cutting room floor you suspect is the next scene where a crazed Tina is smashing plates.