His behaviour was pretty creepy and very Dean-esque. It's difficult to see why Michelle would go there. Yes, he's an attractive young teenager but thus far is totally unlikeable.

Yeah I have absolutely no idea what attracted Michelle to him, even if we pretend he was over the age of consent. He is attractive and I can buy him making her feel young and sexy, but Michelle wouldn't have abused her position of trust, plus she's always had a thing for older guys.

 

No matter who the show tries to make the sympathetic or manipulative one, this is a mess and I actually hope Jenna Russell leaves the role when her contract expires.

Preston is legit like... PERFECT visually. Shame about the "personality".

 

But yeah I really think they aren't going the right way about this storyline and her characterisation. They probably should have eased her in like Kathy, but it seems they're trying to return to Michelle's heyday of being a mess and everything going wrong, I know it wouldn't really fit with her big hyped return but she could have had a low-key romance storyline, say with Max, and then maybe an illness as a bigger storyline when she was settled in.

I get the horrible feeling that Keegan's revenge on Bex will be very similar to Dean and Linda's storyline.

 

 

Well that was f***ing boring. Actually fell asleep, no joke.

Good lord that was dull. Keegan single handedly ruins any episode he's in pretty much. He's like a really bad Waterloo Road "villain", and Shakil is just a spineless knob and a wet blanket. I also give 0 f***s about the pub crap, I just want Mick to lose it and for someone else to get in the Vic.

 

I am looking forward to where Bex goes after this, she's one of the only reasons to keep watching along with Denise, fantastic young actress.

As much as I hate the storyline itself, I did really enjoy the scenes between Bex and Michelle in the Mitchell iamspamspamami Similarly I enjoyed the scene with Kush and Denise, even if Kush telling Keegan that "isn't how you treat women" was ironic as f*** when you consider how misogynistic the show has been recently.

 

Those two scenes saved the episode, although I will always take dull as dishwater than embarrassing 'comedy'.

I won't be in a hurry to catch up then :lol: God the show is so dull atm. How have they let it get in such a bad state again?! This is reminding me of 2012-13, when everyone was glad to get rid of Bryan Kirkwood and then Lorraine Newman's love and warmth happened. Seems to be the same with DTC and Sean O'Connor.

As long as the all American boy Preston keeps doing his thing then I am happy,

 

Quickly replacing Kush as 1st hunk

Waterloo Road and Grange Hill since when did EastEnders go all that?

It's a shame Whitney couldn't have been this efficient at raising money when she was dumping all that responsibility on her husband so that she could fund her 1950s housewife lifestyle. Are we actually supposed to be liking her? I found her quite sickening today tbh.

 

Kim was all sorts of amazing today. Exterminating circumstances.

I'm finding Preston's continued presence in the show to be a bit bizarre at this point. There's really no valid reason for him to have been hanging around the square for days, or even why he's there in the first place! In reality I'm sure Michelle's family/friends would be suspicious, as opposed to casually having him on the stall as if he's a longtime friend of the family, and just accepting that he's taken up residence at the Mitchell's house. It just doesn't ring true to me.

 

Whitney was just behaving like Linda today, quite strange. I'm completely bored with everything to do with the Carters (what's left of them...) and the Vic!

 

Watching EastEnders is a force of habit, but it certainly doesn't make for essential viewing at the moment. :( Really hope it starts to improve before too long.

Good lord they were hyping up Keegan's revenge on Bex for... that. Absolutely ridiculous, it's a shame for an amazing actress like Bex is (or could be, at least) is lumbered with a watered down Waterloo Road "storyline".

The story I'm most invested in, actually, is the conflict between Shirley and Tina in regards to looking after Sylvie. The scene where Shirley revealed the extent of how she couldn't cope was great and I kept thinking about how Tina wanted Stan to stay with the family when he was ill, even though it wasn't mentioned. It's refreshing for characters to remain true to themselves in a plot for once. I hope this story comes to the forefront a bit more - it doesn't have to be a copy of the Ashley storyline on Emmerdale, there's already different perspectives and avenues to take this and I think it is good for soaps to have different leading storylines, but this is more on track with taking a realistic topic and making it heartfelt, character-lead and gritty.

I just caught up on Monday and Tuesday - wow. Why has this show turned into an absolute bore?! :lol: It's tragic.

Derek looking likely to return to Grange Hill, I mean Eastenders.

 

 

http://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/eastenders...ns-set-walford/

Watch him be the grandad to Thing 1 or Thing 2 (one of Louise's friends, I don't know or care for their names).

I don't think in the days where you had Michelle, Ian and Sharon who were at high school you had scene between them at the school did you?

 

 

 

Lisa Faulkner (won Celebrity Masterchef, appeared in Brookside and Holby City)

has joined the cast.

 

http://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/eastenders...nd-spooks-star/

I live for drunk Denise and drunk Shirley tbh