My favourite moment in this unique series was an otherwise very innocuous chat in the second series between Andy (Mckenzie Crook) and Sheila, Terry's wife. Sheila had been portrayed as an irrepressibly cheerful woman in every interaction between her character and any other character, in pretty much every scene she is in. As the series progressed you definitely noticed just how cheery and positive about things she always was, you kind of thought this is just how she was. Then in this scene with Andy in the second series, which I believe was just a chat outside a pub, it was *very* subtlety hinted that Sheila could not have children or something else to do this children had happened, with the implication that her cheerful demeanour was a way of coping with this, or in spite of it, though this is deliberately not explicitly stated. This made whole persona and behaviour of her character seen in the episodes prior to suddenly have a stark meaning. Writing a detail like this, with a pay off much much later in the series run, is just superb.
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