BERNIE! Bernie is also missing!
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The new Panesar matriarch xx
The Denise love triangle seems so forced. Are people really invested in who she ends up with? I think they’ve really misjudged how much we care.
She never had any real chemistry with Jack, and the whole Ravi thing just screams short-term fling rather than star crossed lovers.
And the fact that this is what’s being used as the huge hook for the 40th anniversary and the live vote, I can’t. Same goes for “who hit Cindy”. I mean, it’s hardly up there with “who shot Phil”. I feel like they could have come up with so much better.
That said, I don’t want to be a Debbie downer and I am excited for the big 40th week, especially the Bianca story coming to a head. I just think the material leading into it could be a lot stronger overall.
She never had any real chemistry with Jack, and the whole Ravi thing just screams short-term fling rather than star crossed lovers.
And the fact that this is what’s being used as the huge hook for the 40th anniversary and the live vote, I can’t. Same goes for “who hit Cindy”. I mean, it’s hardly up there with “who shot Phil”. I feel like they could have come up with so much better.
That said, I don’t want to be a Debbie downer and I am excited for the big 40th week, especially the Bianca story coming to a head. I just think the material leading into it could be a lot stronger overall.
He / Him / His
The main problem with the Cindy storyline, as others have noted, is how low stakes and inconsequential it all feels when she was up and on her feet after a couple of weeks. I also think the dash to have the entire thing wrapped up between Christmas and the anniversary (though kind of merciful in this case given the quality) just means Cindy is blitzing through a roladex of suspects every other episode in a way that ends up coming across more funny than it does gripping.
In an ideal world, we’d have a whodunnit with actual stakes that had time to build and shift suspicion from one person to the next at a more natural pace. And I realise they wrapped up ‘Who Shot Phil?’ in a month (which seems wild in retrospect) but I think that’s more the exception rather than the rule.
In an ideal world, we’d have a whodunnit with actual stakes that had time to build and shift suspicion from one person to the next at a more natural pace. And I realise they wrapped up ‘Who Shot Phil?’ in a month (which seems wild in retrospect) but I think that’s more the exception rather than the rule.
Could be worse.
Could be an Emmerdale whodunnit - the murder of a character that’s been there 5 minutes that no-one gives a shit about.
Murdered by their own daughter, a character that’s been there for 10 minutes and no one gives a shit about.
All resolved within a week
Could be an Emmerdale whodunnit - the murder of a character that’s been there 5 minutes that no-one gives a shit about.
Murdered by their own daughter, a character that’s been there for 10 minutes and no one gives a shit about.
All resolved within a week
I think the love triangle was originally meant to be Martin/Stacey/Ruby, but Lacey Turner's pregnancy made the producers change their plans. Martin (who I believe was the first character born on the show) turns 40 this year, it's the Ruby anniversary, two frenemies fighting for the same man etc.
But nowhere near as iconic as Tish’s 30th anniversary shoot
It's no Sixmas trailer that's for sure
“Dot always said a pot of tea made everything better.”
Would that have been the case though, considering that Ruby's return was only ever meant to be short term?
She's just perfection with every scene. I love that she's been given opportunities recently to not show off her comedy chops, but also that she can do the drama. I was reading up about Sophie recently and it looks like she was very popular on the theatre scene and I can see why.
Priya really ought to become a EastEnders leading lady this year!
Not seen today’s yet. Do we get to see Arthur Fowler on the quiz show then? When it was mentioned yesterday, I had a vague recollection of it then it suddenly came to me that the fictitious game show was called “Cat and Mouse”. I looked it up and sure enough. The storyline was from 1989 so before I started catching it on U&Drama. How I remembered I don’t know. Just don’t ask me to remember anything important!
We do!