A love letter to Gavin and Stacey: how the show stole our hearts

The show holds a microscope up to their relationships, and by extension, ours too. The drama is small-scale, the atmosphere is cosy and the characters all feel like people you could spend a few hours down the pub with, sinking pints and swapping stories. Its narrative threads – marriage, blind dates, meeting the in-laws and messy relationships – are ones we can all relate to, even if the zingers the characters come up with are slightly better than ones we could come up with ourselves.