We've lost 2 of the best characters in the few eps with Julie and now Sam going. Both have been excellent this year and really propped up the show at times.

Saying that, good to have Whitney have a brief return and also Sharon now back (although I can see it being brief). Plus the show feels to have gained ground after an uneven start by Wadey with the drugs storyline and Zoe's storyline.

Just need to get rid of Mark and things would improve so much!

Edited Tuesday at 17:225 days by ElectroBoy

Sam has been great, she's definitely one of my favourites and I'll miss her not being in it again. I was really loving the scenes between her and her brother's, it was nice to see Phil in that environment again, not sure what they're going to do with him now. Maybe him and Sharon for the millionth time if they're really stuck 😂

I can’t wait to see what Michelle’s excuse is for using her daughter’s wedding when even Sharon has bothered Idk why they don’t just recast, given they’ve already done it and Sue Tully is never coming back. I suppose they wouldn’t bother just for a visit for a wedding but still. I feel like bringing Vicki back with a new Michelle would have been better than Ross has been, but Alice Haig has been incredible either way.

Sharon is more like it! Thrilled that she looks so well too, whatever’s kept her away let’s hope she’s back for good now. I expect she’ll get a massive fine for keeping Albie off school for almost a year.

I almost thought Sam was just going to forget about Ricky altogether so at least they got a scene. Surely she’ll be back before long, the audience have reacted so well to her.

Zack and Whitney in scenes together is the most hideous thing. They’re both thoroughly awful people. What is Zack even doing? Barney had a great read on him.

Michelle has a get out this time as Vicki told her not to bother. She is the woman after all who has only attended one funeral in the past 30 years and it was randomly Abi Branning’s.

How about that. Grant and Sharon missing each other by seconds.

The way Barney has Zack read to filth

Wonder what's next for Phil without Julie/Nigel/Sam/Grant/Ben.

8 minutes ago, Jαsє said:

Wonder what's next for Phil without Julie/Nigel/Sam/Grant/Ben.

Quite clearly Sharon 😩

Hmm, I'm half expecting Sharon to leave again after this week!

Zack is just painful to watch. You know when your 16 year old son calls you out for how you only go for unavailable women and refuse to let go that there’s a problem. I actually quite like Ross so I hope that him and Vicki come through this.

Missing Sam already 😭

Can't deal with Zack throwing his toys out of the pram at all. The side eye at the altar was ridiculous but I did like how Ross pieced everything together rather than someone else telling him.

I assume Joel will be back tomorrow.

16 hours ago, Jαsє said:

Hmm, I'm half expecting Sharon to leave again after this week!

This is a short stint for the wedding but she'll be back permanently in June according to Sharon Marshall!

36 minutes ago, JosephStyles said:

This is a short stint for the wedding but she'll be back permanently in June according to Sharon Marshall!

I'm guessing that means back filming in June?

Either way, its good to see her coming back permanently! Hopefully whatever is going on personally has resolved itself.

Surprised the container yard is a tube journey away (even if it is one stop), it felt more local than that! Obsessed with how bad any scene on that tube carriage is, it's so obviously fake 💀 but this isn't a Wadey thing it has always looked like that.

Living for Kim interrupting conversations to announce her birthday because no one really cares. Though for a minute I thought she was going to do a Will and not appear at all in her birthday episode despite people mentioning it.

Zack is quite possibly the most repulsive character in the show right now. His motives for his actions are piss poor. He doesn’t even want Vicki.

43 minutes ago, lewistgreen said:

Surprised the container yard is a tube journey away (even if it is one stop), it felt more local than that! Obsessed with how bad any scene on that tube carriage is, it's so obviously fake 💀 but this isn't a Wadey thing it has always looked like that.

True, although Wadey does seem to love using it. It seems to have been used fairly frequently since he took over!

I do think things have stepped up the last few weeks and it seems like next week is going to be big too! Its amazing how much the Zoe/ Jasmine storyline was dragging things down - and the drugs storyline last year.

Think the Denise storyline is going to be a difficult watch - sure Diane Parish will knock it out the park though!

Edited Wednesday at 20:524 days by ElectroBoy

People still whinge about Wadey but I think the show has generally been in good shape since Christmas which was atrocious. There’s been the odd naff story but not like before Christmas when Zoe did the same things every episode. It’s not perfect but it’s also not as bad as people would have you believe.

So Priya could now be the pregnant woman in Max’s bed on NYD. There aren’t actually many others currently in the show that could be her.

Zoe (she’s disappeared almost completely for someone who was longing to spend time with her abandoned kids. I’m actually not convinced she’ll still be in the show by New Year.)

Vicki (possible but unlikely I feel.)

Gina (very unlikely and already stated she doesn’t want kids right now.)

Jasmine (possible but please no-she has a messy triangle as it is)

Unless I’m forgetting someone, Priya is the most likely. Could be Ravi’s baby and she is currently working with Max…

Unless they really go for it and make it Stacey.

Spoiler alert, the pregnant woman in the flash forward is actually Mini Mo the cat x

I’d be shocked if it wasn’t Priya at this stage, I agree I actually can’t see Zoe even being there at that point. Maybe she’ll leave with whichever twin doesn’t get Oscar and finally make a go of being a mum to them. It’s very odd that for all the buildup, we’ve seen absolutely nothing at all between Zoe and either child, especially given she thought she only had one alive and she has two and isn’t even interacting with them.

I can't believe we sat through months of Zoe going "I need to find my son" for us to see precisely no fallout with her son OR daughter 😭