I've watched this series 3 times and have found it very moving each time, as I have been through a very similar experience with the lost of my wife to cancer, then the lost of our greyhound that we had adopted when my wife was diagnosed, she had always wanted to have a dog which I thought would be Therapy for her, but instead was Therapy for me and kept me sane in a very dark period of my life. I take no notice of what critic's say