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.

[Stickerrocks]

Pseudo just think of the slower posting as giving you a chance to recharge your batteries after the frenzy of activity in recent months. After all, you must be able to get Beverley's death into a new title somehow.

[Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]

Oh good grief. FFS, Jolene, just tell him the truth!

Having said that, I suppose soap operas would run out material PDQ if everybody behaved reasonably and told the truth.

[downright]

What happened to the Grundy eviction and Anya arriving?

Wasn't that all imminent?

[Gruach]

Didn't the Sterlings give the Grundys three months notice?

And there's no jeopardy there anyway as both generations of Grundy have somewhere to go. (Though Joe will probably shuffle before they leave.)

Think Anya is making a slow and stately return.

[3littlefrogs]

So Brian has ONE sensible daughter?

Did Debbie just cease to exist? (I know she is permanently in Hungary as Tamsin Grieg has moved on to better things, but honestly, it is SO irritating).

[selsigfach]

"The Archers' script-writing has gone down the Beverley Drains"

[Gruach]

Possibly he was comparing his two biological daughters only?

[Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]

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

Selsigfach -

[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.

[R4]

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

[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.

[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.

[BertrandRussell]

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

[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.

[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.

[JudyCoolibar]

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

[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

[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).

[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

[redshoeblueshoe]

Marilyn
I think tonight I'll stick with

[Abraiid2]

I liked last night's too.

[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).

[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.

[PresidentOliviaMumsnet]

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

[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?