Isabelle Smith is very possibly the best actress in all of soap right now, what an absolute star

 

Agreed, she's going from strength to strength each time she appears; the range of emotions in today's episode being a prime example of that

Leela’s baby is Abe’s isn’t it

 

Two paternity secrets in one family within a couple of months :lol:

Oh god please no, anyone but him surely.

Given the way Robbie is shoved into everything it will probably be his baby :lol:

Really enjoying the way they're shooting Ste's perspective with his mental health.

I genuinely believed Misbah was dead until it was revealed it wasn't real

Returns confirmed for

Myra and Marlena "Nana" McQueen for Christmas/Theresa's exit. The latter is a surprising "return" considering she's been featured in the credits all year but I couldn't tell you the last time I saw Nana at all (certainly not since I started watching again in January)

It was January Nana McQueen last appeared around the crash, same as Myra, she was in it when Mercedes was in hospital for the crash and then just vanished, didn’t appear, wasn’t mentioned, then like 3 or 4 months later they just casually mentioned she was in Spain :lol:

I thought Myra left with Goldie to go on that cruise Goldie won?

 

Oops don't remember Nana appearing at all but would make sense if she did appear during the crash aftermath

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Yeah that was after the crash saga, to facilitate Chelsee’s maternity leave, whilst Nana just disappeared around all that, as far as I remember it wasn’t shown or even mentioned for a good few months :lol:

Today's episode still isn't online. The cliffhanger yesterday better be worth that wait because it looks like we're heading for a climax on Ste's mental health story

What is this writing? Dilly and Liberty were on Sienna's side until a blurry picture with literally anyone's hand in it pushing Ethan is uncovered :lol:

Looks like we're hurtling towards a strong Christmas for storylines

 

On 23rd December, 6 episodes will be released onto streaming all at once to cover the Festive period.

 

If you watch at E4 pace then the schedule is as follows:

23rd December - 7pm

24th December - 7pm & 7:30pm

30th December - 7pm

31st December - 7pm

1st January - 7pm

Very happy to see them not drag out a Mercedes/Freddie affair story and instead get Grace to cotton on to it before it even begins, will make for an interesting dynamic now for a while. I've really enjoyed Grace and Mercedes' friendship and it'll be a shame to see it strained again but of course interesting viewing is ahead.

 

Literally couldn't give two shits about Robbie now, there's just no emotion whatsoever (maybe that's the point?) and it's coming across as tired. Similarly with Warren we really don't need a "hard man" in soap anymore.

I agree I’m so fed up of Robbie pushed into most storylines, Warren was a spent character so it should have been refreshing to see him go but we’ve just got Robbie doing the same thing now.

FINALLY Cleo

knows about Marie still being alive. This is sure to ramp up to Christmas now where Cleo is going to fake her own death to escape Abe

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I hate the pacing of this, it’s all about to peak, Cleo on her way to the wedding, and then they feel the need to cut to Jack making salmon?! I think the problem with the 3 episode weeks is they try to stretch out things that could be one or two episodes like this wedding, and make it go over the 3 and drag it out a bit then they pad out the rest of the episodes with inconsequential shit like nobody forgiving Darren yet or “does Martha really have dementia”.

 

Tomorrow should be amazing though, this really needs to be the end of Abe.

I am concerned that with Cleo unconscious Abe will spin some bollocks that everyone will believe. I hope I'm wrong and Abe is gone after this week

Surely Joel will realise or something, given the other week when he thought he heard Cleo inside, or they’ll do tests and be able to kind of tell she was cooped up for a year or mistreated at least. They can surely all tell from one glance that she wasn’t in Bali :lol:

 

Knowing Hollyoaks atm they’ll just pause it for the whole Christmas period and we won’t hear anything else after tomorrow until New Year. I’m assuming Martha will try and say something like she’ll come across Abe in the village and say he’s the one who took the girl but they’ll all think she’s just a senile old lady and not believe it.

We do have a McQueen focus on Christmas so I do hope Cleo is at least a small part of that