Orange Is The New Black in Ambridge. Just ask Helen. But will anyone in The Archers ever ask her WHY?

[PseudoBadger]

I reckon this thread will see us through the Euros, both footy and referendum. Await the clunky topical inserts here.

[PseudoBadger]

New thread for you all my dear friends
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/radio_addicts/2679481-Out-damned-SOC-Out-I-say-When-will-Ambridge-be-free-Discuss-The-Archers-here?watched=1

[Gruach]

DumTeeDum has character statistics for June.

(On my phone I have to turn the screen horizontal to see the right hand column of actual number of appearances.) It makes highly annoying reading.

[ppeatfruit]

Puddock J'lene was on the mobile phone to Wayne!

[redshoeblueshoe]

Grauch - I think it just wouldn't be the same, that's why we're all keeping quiet, hoping Psuedo will forget

[Gruach]

too sensible and too sensitive ... Beautifully put puddock.

Pseudo did you actually want a serious conversation about that thing you said? I feel we may all ('cept D3) have brushed it swiftly under the carpet. (Or am I suffering another SOH failure?)

[TaurielTest]

I think this being cavalier with characters is what gets up my nose more than anything. It's like Linda - supporting Kate with her alternative venture, sure, getting really into the bongos, okay ... missing parish council meeting with hangover and llama-related excuse? Not in a million years.
Gah!
(Thank you, I feel a little better now.)

[TaurielTest]

Feel same way as Gruach - no way would Jolene have suddenly said Beverley was dead to Kenton and Fagash, she is both too sensible and too sensitive for that. Especially when she not only has experienced losses of her own, but was Fagash's confidante re Paul. I was ready for a deep breath and a humourous "okay you got me" coming clean. That was just lame.
And and and ... her talking out loud as if to Wayne but without him replying was just odd and came off as obvious costcutting. Was he supposed to be there but silent? Or was it rhetorical?

[PresidentOliviaMumsnet]

Only just caught up on a month's worth of AMbridge
CRIKEY

[KittiesInsane]

Most of them already know he has a bad temper, surely?

Mind you, at the moment they'd probably just nod sympathetically and murmur that it's no wonder he's a bit short-tempered, with everything he's been through lately, poor man.

[NotdeadyetBOING]

If we don't have an episode in which Knob trips himself up in public (metaphorically you understand - not suggesting he slips on his stoma bag) then I will go mad.

SURELY it is time for him to lose his rag in unseemly public way - thus precipitating a good deal of village gossip along the lines of 'Oooo - doesn't he have a nasty temper - who knew?' type thing.

OR - someone needs to dig up Stephan (never forgotten).

[Abraiid2]

I liked last night's too.

[redshoeblueshoe]

Marilyn
I think tonight I'll stick with

[Marilynsbigsister]

Redblueshoe you are not alone, I absolutely loved it !! I have done nothing but moan about the plot driven disaster fest that ta had become - and the sw complete disregard for the long established personalities of much loved characters during the eastenders style HelRob fest... So much so I was even annoying myself. Reluctantly after listening since 1969 , I stopped a couple of months ago. Tonight I was in the kitchen exactly 7 pm and thought I would give it a go and vowed to switch off at the first sign of Patbot or an entire family who are steadfastly not comparing notes...

How wonderful to get back to an episode with no annoying pip or fairbrethren.. Just some nonsense with Jolene and Kenton. The wonderful sarcastic Brian and Lillian at her salacious best !

Only spoilt at the end when CA threatened us with a Robhel episode tomorrow

[HalsallRedux]

Just listened to tonight's ep so I could find out what Kenton's 'shock' was. Pah.

SOC appears to be plundering sources other than Hardy; the whole 'imaginary person who has to be killed off suddenly because someone wants to meet them' plot is lifted wholesale from Prokofiev's 'Lieutenant Kije' suite (and the film he wrote the music for).

[redshoeblueshoe]

So I'm the only one who enjoyed it.
What was not to love. No Pipsqueak, No Tobex, No Helen, No Rob, No Anna, No Arseula
I could go on . . . . .
and I'm sure Wimbledon will be fabulous dharling

[JudyCoolibar]

They can only afford Tamsin Greig for around a week every two years, so don't hold your breath to hear Debbie.

[Gumpendorf]

It was but it was TA stupid and I'd prefer it to the Anna SL stupid

Adam and Lillian can gossip about the fictional Beverley Drains and discover all kinds of stuff about her, but can't pool info on Helen and Rob. It's just so implausible.

[Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]

To be fair, TA has a very long track record of being stupid. Years ago there was an abysmal storyline involving Jill and vegetables which required her to go and spy on Lynda (I think it was that way round). A new low, I thought at the time, but probably no worse than many idiocies perpetrated since.

[BertrandRussell]

That was just STUPID!!!,!!!!!!!

[Gruach]

Hmph!

There was a continuity error too. When Wayne reappeared years ago he had just been thrown out by his girlfriend (forget her name) who had a musical son named Rollo. So it was nonsensical for Jolene to even jokingly suggest that Kenton thought Wayne had been celibate ever since he broke up with her. And - on that previous occasion Kenton was utterly cool about Wayne's presence.

[Abraiid2]

jolene, Kenton
Both on tonight

Emma and Ed
On last week

Neil
On last week quite a bit with the eggs and elves

Kathy, Shula, Will, elizabeth, Ian, chris, Fallon, Nic, fair enough but must say I don't miss them, except Fallon and Elizabeth.

[R4]

Gruach do you not recognise a 'comedy' script when you hear one?
Makes a change from it being a Grundy, I suppose.

[Gruach]

I'm unreasonably at Jolene's offing of the imaginary Bev. It seems incredibly tasteless and not the sort of thing anyone would do if they'd ever experienced the death of someone close. Which she has.

[Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]

Surely not. He's always been closest to Debbie of all his children.

Selsigfach -

[Gruach]

Possibly he was comparing his two biological daughters only?