The second season begins with Hana and Tom Allen appear to have good news, and Derek Anthony's father goes on a new date with Nan Tom. Things turn to a different path, as things take a downward trend for how he calls on his brother Cliff to help with those moments. How he usually tries to help him.
Leave it to Derek to make grabbing a used pregnancy test from the garbage, holding it up and announcing someone else's pregnancy a heartwarming bit of TV.
An episode of The Office or Extras would be wasted on Derek; he's completely happy when he's watching an online video of little piggies and bunnies doing cute things. Derek has all the creative ambition of one of those videos.
The new series of Derek opens with brilliant comic scenes about spiders, electrocution and sex between clowns and chimps but, by the end of the half hour, viewers just might be quietly weeping.
Settling back into Derek after so much time away was like pulling on one of Derek's brightly-coloured sweaters: it's warm and comfortable and you never want to take it off again.