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When Peter and Ken went to clear out Daniel's house, they should have had a look in the cellar, as Daniel definitely reminds me of Norman Bates, and Denise is probably down there!

Am ecstatic that Emma Barton survived this week, and hope she continues to wreak havoc on the village for many years to come. But Wednesday's episode focusing on Emma and James - through no fault of the two actors involved - was for me the worst ED episode I've ever seen. I love a dose of gothic camp, but this was just embarrassing. Tuesday's ep with Marlon & Paddy was only marginally better, but only just. They're just not funny, IMHO, and I also cringed at Rhona and Pierce's clashes.

Incredible performance from Natalie J. Robb in Thursday's double bill. It was Jai's stunned reaction which made me cry, though. And I adored how long and domestic so many of the scenes were. 

I think the POV Week has been brilliantly done, it's very clever. Am loving Nancy at the moment and this is the first of Warren's stints that I've seen and he is so charismatic. Trevor who?

Also completely agree that Ste grimacing with his kids and beckoning viewers in on the opening credits is just so grim. He's awful.

Weak links on the show for me at the moment are the actor playing DS Armstrong; Neeta (atrocious actress) and Liam Donovan (his two brothers both bring something to the table - he offers nothing). 

Oh dear. Hopefully this will make Corrie rethink their approach of constantly shoehorning bizarre pop culture references into the dialogue: 

http://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/coronation-street/news/a806321/coronation-street-apologises-after-complaints-over-racist-dialogue/

James being Adam's biological father has had no longterm impact on the family dynamics at all - Adam remains completely separate from 'the Barton boys.' All it did was give the glorious Emma a reason to loathe Moira. 

I sometimes wish that gorgeous John hadn't been killed off (some fans speculated at the time that he could have gone to prison for while if he'd been the one who attacked Cain rather than Zak) But then Emma and Ross would probably not exist...

So, currently on the run from the law, we have: Amy (Kyle's mother); Declan; Kirin and now Andy. Anybody I've missed? I find these exits really unsatisfying.

And is anybody else feeling like Charity's return has been a damp squib? Why couldn't we have seen her at rock bottom, having to rebuild her life after prison? There is no lasting sense that she was even in prison for a year - much like Pete, she has just returned and carried on. There is so much story that both characters could have had from their time inside. (Not least the fact that Moira raised another woman's child for a year, which was barely given any screen time). Pete could definitely be damaged from prison, yet he is nowhere to be seen. 

Charity in The Woolpack is such a limp lettuce compared to the Charity who was Lady Macbeth to Declan. And where is Megan in all this? Her son died because Declan was gunning for Charity, yet we've had one confrontation scene that I can recall this year. Likewise with Jai. 

Lastly, Jenna Coleman was interviewed in the Guardian this week. She was asked about Emmerdale, but not if she'd ever return. (Probably because the answer's obvious).

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/aug/20/jenna-coleman-victoria-doctor-who-put-in-box

Thank you! 

Am about a month behind on Hollyoaks, but did the show ever reveal where Kim and Lindsey's sister Kath was after Lindsey abducted her and then died?

And has there been any mention of Silas after he killed Lindsey? Are the police even looking for him or is it a case of "He did us (and the viewers) a favour"?

Oh my goodness, this news makes me so happy. What a coup!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37111203

Yes. I just don't get any sense of there being an appetite for more Corrie among the audience. The sheer volume of eps every week from all the soaps is a real barrier to casual viewers picking up the habit. 

Absolute madness. All the soaps should be reducing the number of weekly episodes, not increasing them.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/jun/29/coronation-street-to-go-six-nights-a-week-from-next-year

It's also still very odd for me seeing Charity as landlady. It doesn't fit. 

 

Has Charity ever articulated why she wanted to buy into The Woolpack, or why it was so important to her? She really feels shoehorned in there, and those endless weeks of "I'll get the money, Doug, promise!" did her no favours at all. 

A couple of random Hollyoaks thoughts:

- I thought Jennifer Metcalfe totally stole the show in the episode where Silas killed Lindsay.

- Real Lisa's arrival was ridiculously entertaining, great move casting Rachel Adedeji. 

- So Ben sacrificed himself to save his substitute daughter, aka the girl who killed his actual daughter?! Dear God. 

I see that Charley Webb's Twitter bio gives her agents' details - what's that all about? Letting the show know that she's keeping her options open, in the same way that a lot of soap actors write "Currently playing so and so on [INSERT SHOW]'?

Peggy was never my favourite character, and I thought she was overhyped and overplayed. But Barbara Windsor's performance in those final eps really blew me away. Am actually in awe at how good she was, very moving and understated. Also had goosebumps at Grant's return, and seeing Pat again was so much better than I dared hope! 

Did they explain how Gordon came to have that money to leave in the first place? They all seemed to accept it very readily. 

Am loving all the Pierce/Rhona/Vanessa/Rakesh psychodrama. 

Yes, that is a fair point, characters with a sense of morality are in short supply on the show. I did howl at Finn's line to Pete: "Half the staff in here have done time - it's like the cast of Chicago behind that bar."

Am skipping all of David's cancer storyline, as I just can't get past the fact that Alicia is out in Portugal alone while her ex - and her teenage son - trot around the village. Not to mention her rapist. I wish the show had been brave enough to lose Matthew Wolfenden and send David and Alicia off into the sunset together. 

Am also sick of Cain's rough justice - wish Pete had punched him back. 

Do we think a Kirin recast could work? While Pierce is still around there could be something to play.

At the start of last week, when Pierce was telling Rhona and Vanessa about how his life had gone down the tubes, did he really say that everyone at his work knew about Tess and Paddy's affair? How is that even possible?

Robert looking in the mirror to see if he had anything in his teeth was utterly dreadful. 

I've watched the Laurel/Ashley wedding eps twice now, they were just fantastic. Brilliant work by Charlotte Bellamy, and John Middleton and Katherine Dow Blyton were great too. 

So much emotion! I loved it at the end of Monday's episode when Harriet told Laurel she looked beautiful. (And she did - that dress was gorgeous). Having Harriet back in her cassock reinforced for me that she NEEDS to become the village vicar again when Ashley is no longer able. There is still so much untapped potential with Harriet, and she deserves to be at the heart of the community as a modern, human vicar who has flaws just like Ashley had.

Sidenote: am so happy that Duncan Preston came back to the show. Doug and Laurel's relationship is so believable, I really love their scenes together. 

Zoe Henry has been brilliant at spitting out the snarky, wounding one-liners to Paddy. Long may it continue. 

I don't understand what they're doing with Leyla. One minute she's all set to marry Nikhil, and now she's swooning over Jai again. Has she been lobotomised? And has Jai really changed or is he still a snake?

I will do at some point. The original concept of the show, with a couple fostering lots of children, was so cleverly done as it allowed lots of different stories to be told within one family. It also enabled new kids to arrive on a regular basis. 

But it couldn't be sustained longterm as the actors who played Tom, Pippa (both of them) and Michael moved on. Wasn't there another family after them who also fostered kids? How successful was that?