Linda's reaction to Elaine calling what happened to Johnny sexual assault really wasn't the one... Doesn't she understand that coercion is a thing 😬

Ben Wadey just tears apart characters to fit his paper thin storylines, Linda is the last person who would act like that.

Maybe back in her "my sausage can't be gay" days but she's been through too much since then for her current mindset to actually make any sense for her character

They're constantly having characters act out of character, like Will filming Nuggets seizure as well??? I'm tired

I actually think Linda’s reaction is pretty consistent with the writing for her family over the years. For a start, she was married to Mick. His character often got free passes because he supported Johnny coming out and then had his own sexual abuse storyline but he was a misogynist full of toxic masculinity. He was always telling his sons to man up, provide, take care of the females in the family. It could be very possible that Linda believes that Johnny being an adult human male means he should have been stronger or that he had the chance to say no but didn’t. I’m probably just going in on Mick because I hate the character.

But also her own mother didn’t take her sexual assault as seriously as she should have done. She asked Linda to lie about it. Perhaps Linda isn’t as different to her mother as she believes.

And maybe Johnny had a point. Linda struggles to see outside of her own situation. Again, Mick didn’t help in this regard. But during the Six, Linda very rarely thought of how the others might be feeling. Johnny has also spent the last 2 years looking after his mother with reciprocation. She sees this as his mistake and believes he had a choice. She hasn’t taken his relationship with Callum seriously.

I’m sure she’ll come round to the right way of thinking about it, and it was sloppy writing. Maybe I’m just trying to see reason where there isn’t any 😂

I was struggling today to realise how both Callum and Johnny made what happened with Tim all Linda's fault? No no, Callum did what he did and so did Johnny and none of that can be pinned on Linda just because she had a conversation with Tim about it.

Also clocked Gemma Bissix being credited as Clare at the end for her voicemail message!

The writing for Callum/Johnny tonight cannot be at all defended. Why are neither of them taking any responsibility for this mess?

Lexi is too old to be getting away with this bossing everyone around shtick.

Claire Devine to come back STAT!! This producer ran Hollyoaks into the ground and now he's here for Eastenders. What's next on his hit list, Corrie, ER??