After Bryan Kirkwood’s often up and down tenure as Executive
Producer of EastEnders, I was hoping Lorraine Newman would produce and oversee episodes
of greater quality. Unfortunately, the past week was consistent in being bad
after the quality episode of last Friday which saw Janine’s temporary exit
which allowed actress Charlie Brooks to take a six month break.
The week centred on characters which are unlikeable and who
moan at their dire situations when the viewer is trying really hard to care. I
really thought EastEnders would be of a better quality as we approach autumn as
this is the period which traditionally sees the greatest drama and storyline culminations.
The quality was so bad that I can’t motivate myself to write a lengthy piece on
the week. Instead, I will do bullet points:
We had:
·
Lola’s social worker calling literally every episode
which was highly unrealistic as social workers do not do this in real life!
·
Billy Mitchell’s role of the loser of the Square
confirmed as Michael sacked him and left him without a job.
·
Cora Cross “getting on my wick” as Strictly’s Len Goodman would put it. She
is always rude to people for no reason and now I can see why she has had an
ASBO!
·
Denise and Sharon sniping at each other for no
reason. I want these two to be friends, not frenemies! Why can’t Denise be
given a proper storyline?! Diane Parish is fantastic but not being used to her
potential which really irks me.
·
Michael fuming at Janine’s exit and her actions
since (she froze the business accounts leaving him virtually penniless)
·
Phil very nearly hitting the bottle but being
persuaded not to by Sharon who instead told him to fight on and run his
businesses to give himself something to focus on. This saw the unpleasant Phil
Mitchell to return- he was rude and arrogant when bossing Jean and Fatboy about.
·
Jack upsetting Sharon by organising a babysitter
for ‘Denny’ (call him Dennis please Sharon, Denny is wearing thin!) without her
permission. It all turned out ok though as Sharon and Jack made up (but not love.
Yet...)
·
Max acting shifty and giving Tanya a calendar
with cats on which showed their wedding day as this Christmas Eve. This aroused
my suspicions as the calendar had cats on and Kat is seeing a Branning brother
behind Alfie’s back...
·
Zainab being weirdly enthusiastic about Syed and
Christian’s upcoming civil partnership considering she was homophobic just two
years ago.
·
Syed spiralling further and further into debt as
he stole £10,000 from his brother’s business in order to pay a debt. I find it
hard to care about this as it has been announced that Syed and Christian will
both be leaving in November. This is typical EastEnders: give characters a storyline
when it has been announced that they are leaving. This has happened before with
Vanessa Gold and Julie Perkins who were not used for months and only made
interesting and given something to do when they were on their way out.
·
Tyler return and punch Joey after Joey mocked
him for losing the Emporium.
·
Kim Fox being her usual idiotic self. Does she
not do serious? Her constant ‘comedy’ is wearing thing and is losing its
effectiveness.
All in all, a fairly poor week. I seriously
hope the next few weeks pick up quality wise and feature characters who are
written well and who are not moaning at their circumstances despite their circumstances
being their own faults (Lola, Michael,
Billy).
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