Just in the nick of time, I have finished rewatching the third series of Apple TV+ comedy Trying, as the new series starts this week. I do think as the seasons have worn on, the drama and loveliness has increased while the quotability levels have dropped. But I couldn’t love it any more, so here’s the best of the next eight episodes.

Episode 1

Jason’s dad, Vic, absolutely owns this episode - from DIY to gathering the troops:

Vic: I made a bed.

Jason: What? Why?

Vic: Two kids, you need two beds.

Jason: Hang on, you made a bed before eight in the morning?

Vic: No. I made two. But I looked at the first one and I knew I had a better one in me.

Packing for a honeymoon:

Scott: Have you seen my holiday fedora, my love?

Karen: No. And you should not have so many fedoras that they need prefixes.

Advice from father to son:

Jason: And, be bold, mate. If someone from the future doesn’t come back to tell you to stop doing it, then how badly could it have gone?

Vic again:

Vic: Don’t mess with the grandparents. We’ve got no jobs and we sleep three hours a night.

Episode 2

Trying to figure out who to shout out:

Estate agent: Well, the flat’s managed by a property management company on behalf of a developer who’s owned by a property investment company who’s owned by an offshore trust. Jeff? Jeff, I think one of them’s called.

Potentially one of the best lines of the show:

Nikki: Terry’s told me to fire someone, Jen. From sales.

Jen: But I’m Jen from sales!

I also love the safe space circle drawn on your hand. I might start doing that sometimes.

Episode 3

Is it paranoia or smugness:

Nikki: Jase, do you get the vibe she doesn’t like me?

Jason: No, why? Do you?

Nikki: Maybe. I don’t know how to tell because no one’s ever not liked me before.

Jason: Okay, well now I don’t like you.

This is another one of those moments that was like watching myself on screen:

Nikki: You never do anything by the book and it always works out. I do everything by the book and it never works out. Oh my god, did I buy the wrong bloody book?

Jason: Just be yourself Nikki.

Nikki: No, NO! No one should be themselves until they know it’s safe. Be someone else then become yourself gradually so you don’t scare them off.

But everyone has their moments:

Jason: When you’re around, I get to be the fun one. But when you leave, then he starts coming at me with feelings and lamps and feelings about lamps and honestly, I didn’t know what to say.

Episode 4

Party planning for a kid:

Jason: What’s the theme?

Nikki: Key words are repairing the past and forging friendships that can endure.

Jason: Right, I was thinking more safari or dinosaurs or something.

It takes a village:

Karen: I’m not good with them, Nik. I can organise them but the other stuff, it just doesn’t come naturally.

Nikki: That’s okay. You’ve got him, haven’t you? He can be the kid and you can be the grown up. He can dress up and play with them, and you can renew contents insurance and put bay leaves in stuff.

Two top visual moments in this episode:

• When Karen tells Nikki she’s pregnant, the range of emotions that she works through on her face is incredible.
• Scott dressed as a clown so no one wants to talk to him about the important things.

Episode 5

Prepping for important job stuff:

Nikki: And, just for fun, what would you say your strong points are?

Jen: I have a face that suits every type of hat.

Episode 6

Realising sometimes it’s best to keep quiet:

Jason: Nikki, can you not meet one person without telling them about your life?

Nikki: I don’t!

Jason: Oh come on, last week the postman asked me if my rash had cleared up.

Good company to keep:

Karen: These are not A List celebrities, Scott, they’re Z List. And that’s only because the alphabet only goes up to z.

Never let money come between a friendship:

Jason: Mate we need to talk about the money, what’s happening?

Scott: Yes, we are at 11,000 currently.

Jason: Oh great, so that’s 23 in total?

Scott: No, 11 in total.

Jason: What are you talking about, I gave you 12.

Scott: Yes and that’s currently 11.

Jason: So you lost a thousand?

Scott: No no no, it still has the potential to be 12,000 but it HAS currently taken the form of 11,000.

I hate the end of this episode. I can just about get over that Jason doesn’t talk to her about the money thing because he’s trying to protect his family. But it makes NO SENSE that he would talk to Bev about it. NO SENSE.

Episode 7

Trying to recover from the money problems of the previous episode:

Nikki: We could’ve asked my parents.

Jason: They haven’t got that kind of money. They won’t even turn the big ring on on the cooker.

Jen, not the smartest, but very wise:

Jen: I wanna be with Tinkle but I don’t think she wants to be with me.

Nikki: Why would you want to be with someone who doesn’t want to be with you?

Jen: Because they’re normally the best ones.

You can love and hate Scott, but him realising Karen should keep writing instead of him, and then encouraging her, it’s lovely.

Episode 8

An early morning idea:

Jason: Let’s do it, let’s get married.

Nikki: We’ve already been through this, I said yes. It’s not a drivers license, you don’t have to reapply.

Freddy’s track record precedes him:

Freddy: The rings are my favourite bit. I love a bit gesture. It was the little gestures I couldn’t do.

Jason: What like not having an affair?

The hasty hotchpotch nature of the wedding is spectacular, and so loveable - better than any ’normal’ wedding. And the fact that Vic ends up staying dressed like a wizard the whole time, even once they’re at the court.

Freddy does the right thing:

Freddy: I have this habit of only realising how much I love people after they leave. So I think the best thing is if you two just stay right where you are.