Monday, March 9, 2015

The Long and Winding Road - Review:- 03.03.2015


Yes, this was a veritable long and winding road of an episode. It accomplished nothing except what most viewers with acumen had suspected for months, and it also reinforced some characters' worst aspects. 

Sharon was the Queen of that episode.

Grow the Fuck Up! Well, we know that Kat's throwing herself a massive pity party, with Stacey bearing the brunt of the heavy work, and now it's obvious that Denise will bear the heavy lifting with Pearl. Kim throws herself a pity party because she can't make milk and stomps off from the hospital in a sulk.

All this talk about feeling like a cow, and all Kat's whinings about not having any money were just boring. Been there and done that, and any smidgeon of sympathy Kim drummed up in the past two weeks vanished tonight when she was reunited with her partner in crime. Kat's bitching about Tommy's nursery putting up weekly rates, but she's got enough dosh to plow through a gallon of booze with Kim.

Kim's feeling sorry for herself because motherhood didn't consist of - what did she call it? - parties and balloons, and Kat's playing poor-pitiful-me about having to work for a living and look after her children. She bitches about Alfie not finding a job, yet she manages to get money off him for the kids, and when she finds he's actually got a proper job in Soho, she whines even more because he can't have the children this weekend.

The most abhorrent scenes of the programme tonight were those where Kat bullied, shouted and bitched her way about the Square, screeching at the nursery nurse because it was nursery policy to send ill children home in the interest of others, dumping Tommy, the kids, the stall on anyone standing by, and then dumping the kids on Big Mo, when Stacey wasn't available to be able to drink with Kim.

Good for Mo for dumping the kids on her, but by then she was three sheets to the wind. She was so much up her own arse, she could have cared less about what Tommy was getting up to whilst she got drunk with Kim. Mick and Linda should have banned her for the liberties she took by going behind the bar and impugning their management of it. As for Kim, her snide remark to Tina, when Tina asked after Pearl ~ Why is everyone always asking after her?~ was callous to the extreme.

Kim was right to compare herself to a cow tonight. I saw two at the bar.



I am so tired of the dirty girl image. It's obvious that Kat and Alfie aren't high on DTC's priority list, and that in the coming weeks, when Kat suddenly finds that she's got literacy and numeracy skills, she goes to work for Max, we know that can only mean one thing with the King of Sleaze.

The Moons will eventually reunite, and when they do, I hope the actors find the integrity to call it a day. If not, I hope DTC finds his balls and axes them.

Same Shit Different Day with the Truth That's Finally Spoken. So the Carters are not entering into Operation Keep Nancy Away from Shirley mode. It's not enough that their daughter is recovering from a major epileptic fit, the Carters - although they mean well - decide to keep the boot in and watch her like a witch, kill her with kindness - a slap-up breakfast, a day out at the scan with Grandma Elaine, followed by a family dinner - all the while reminding her that she can't speak with Shirley, she shouldn't speak with Shirley and she's definitely not going to speak with Shirley.

The brief scene in the Minute Mart between Shirley and Linda would have been an ample opportunity for Shirley to have apologised to Linda for calling her a liar, or to at least call a truce in the interest of Nancy. Shirley was trying, in a way only only Shirley could, to show friendly - asking after Nancy, offering to bring some chocolate around for her later, then pointedly saying she'd see Nancy later because Nancy wanted to talk to her about something. In the end, Linda told Shirley that Nancy wasn't up to having visitors - using Nancy's illness to keep her a prisoner in her own home. But Shirley got the final word by promising Linda she'd be over later.

Nancy's annoying both Mick and Linda by constantly telling them what they're doing, something which they totally deny - sweeping the problem under the carpet, refusing to look at it - she still believes Mick has killed Dean or that he's harmed him in some way.

Elaine went on tonight to Linda about what good parents Mick and Linda were, and Linda made a cryptic remark about how could she ever have any hope for this child when she couldn't hold onto her other three. Then Mick brought it all home about how much the Carter kids are treated like small children when he required, demanded, ordered Lee to come home straight after his Army course, to attend his mother's pre-natal scan, instead of sinking a few brews with his mates.

Really, Mick?

Your son is 23 years old, and he's an adult. He's a serving soldier, who's been to war, and yet he's required to trot straight home after his course to attend his mother's pre-natal scan? Like Nancy, Lee needs to learn when to say no to his parents, when to call them out on their passive-aggressive tendencies - and Linda was learning heaps from Mick with Nancy tonight - and to begin to pull away. As Elaine said, part of parenting is letting go.

The scan, itself, was interesting. After the fact, Linda finally admitted to Elaine that she thought the baby was Dean's, but I clocked Mick's face during the scan, and he was less than happy. In fact, he was worried. I'll wager Linda isn't the only one who thinks this baby is Dean's. So much for the united front and the blag that the baby was Mick's. That's the next insurmountable hurdle we'll have to share with the Carters. (Sigh).

The Princess is in the Building.



Sharon's started to look for Gavin Bennett AKA Gavin Sullivan her father, by going to an address which hasn't been a home to anyone for 20 years. In the meantime, she's waylaid by Roxy, who's trying to play down her interest in CharlieBoy, who enlists Sharon's aid in trying to get Dot to apply for bail, so she could come home and help Charlie with the baby. (Because Roxy's helping Charlie with the baby only throws them together in very close circumstances, and Ronnie's getting stronger, you know).

Sharon goes to visit Dot, who's in true Martyr mood. Dot's never happier than when she's the Sin Eater of Walford, and this is the biggest Sin-Eating Feast imaginable. Dot's become Jesus Christ. She's being punished for Nick's sins, not just her own sins for everything she's done her entire adult life that resulted in Nick becoming the way he is, but for Nick's sins as well.

Sharon even tries to appeal to Dot using Matthew, her great-grandson, but Dot poo-poohs that, saying she'd only make Matthew turn out bad, because she'd spoil him, the way she did Nick. (No, Dot, Matthew will turn out bad because he's got a psychopathic mother and two psychopaths for grandfathers). Dot's self-righteousness and self-pity are jarring, and I felt no sympathy for her. Were I Sharon, I'd waste no time trying to help someone like that.

Charlie likes Roxy; Roxy likes Charlie. They should both be very afraid. 

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