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IN THE CLUB-anyone watching?

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DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 12/08/2014 22:13

It's hilarious but strangely addictive! One drama after the next, it's like OBEM crossed with an NCT group with every ex soap star you can think of apart from Hermione Norris who is acting her socks off as usual!

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DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 12/08/2014 22:14

Oh and woman from the Malteser adGrin

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DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 12/08/2014 22:22

God, it really is direGrin

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Rinkydinkypink · 12/08/2014 22:26

Its becoming my guilty pleasure Smile

Its funny and rubbish but I'm addicted .

Pointlessfan · 12/08/2014 22:29

Yep, def a guilty pleasure. My DH spent almost the entire episode making derogatory comments then went to get a drink and came back to ask me what had happened!
It is massively far-fetched but very watchable. As if they gathered up all the pregnancy-related stories from Casualty and joined them all together.

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Bunbaker · 12/08/2014 22:51

I didn't see last week's episode but watched it tonight. I really enjoyed it. It is far fetched and some of the plot defies reality, but Kay Mellor writes a really good yarn. I felt quite wrung out after watching it.

SageYourResoluteOracle · 12/08/2014 23:23

It is indeed dire, ridiculously far fetched, almost implausible yet strangely compelling. And the acting is hysterical- it's so packed with well-knowns that there doesn't seem to be enough room for them all. But I LOVE it. Deffo guilty pleasure.

As an aside, 3 elements of the storyline I have actually experienced and many of our friends and family couldn't believe how 'soap opera' our lives had become.

Bunbaker · 12/08/2014 23:24

Hrmione Norris out-actd everyone.

Twonewcats · 17/08/2014 14:52

I hated when Jasmine said something to her bump about it being a battle and only one will survive (or something to that extent). It was either a very clumsy signpost to the plot or completely irrelevant. But it just wasn't something a mum to be would ever say to their unborn baby, surely? !

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DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 17/08/2014 16:34

Two-I felt like that when I was pregnant with ds,I think they're setting her up for a pnd story line. That is Jasmine, isn't it, the one with pre eclampsia?

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Twonewcats · 17/08/2014 19:26

Ok I take it back then. I just thought it seemed a bizarre thing to say/think. I had terrible pnd too. I hope they tackle it well x

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DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 17/08/2014 19:49

Well you can think and say bizarre things when you are depressed. I doubt they'll portray it well, everything else has been totally unrealisticGrin

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BBQsAreSooooOverrated · 20/08/2014 17:18

Saw the clip of next weeks. Hope Rosie's baby is ok :(

SweetPeaPods · 20/08/2014 17:24

Rosie's baby is fine, false alarm.
I'm hooked, it's very predictable but real guilty pleasure watching.
Not very easy watching the little girl twin though when your 32w pg

Reepits · 20/08/2014 17:29

I kind of like it. Norris makes me laugh.

BBQsAreSooooOverrated · 20/08/2014 18:03

Oh phewSmile
The christening/service for baby Hope was sad.

juniper44 · 20/08/2014 22:40

I think it'll scare pregnant women; very few labours are that quick, but I guess it'd be boring to watch a woman go 'oh my god, this pain can't get any worse... oh my god- this pain is worse!' for 12 hours or so.

I was so scared I wouldn't know when I was in labour, and would end up giving birth in a toilet somewhere. In hindsight, not so much. Labour was pretty clear!

I like the show, but it's daft, predictable and unrealistic. I'll still watch the rest.

amothersplaceisinthewrong · 21/08/2014 18:40

It is complete rubbish, but I am addicted.

But every single man bar none is a fool/clown.

PumpkinsMummy · 21/08/2014 18:49

I'm not so sure that the bad teeth are false. Unless she is curiously attached to them! I'm sure she had them in everything I've seen her in. Not sure why every character she plays seems the same (slightly vacuous, harmless, always smiling). As PP said, the constant smiling is inappropriate.

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DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 21/08/2014 23:27

I just watched episode 3, it was dire, not sure I'll watch the rest tbh!

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Elswyth · 22/08/2014 00:43

I've been watching on recommendation Confused

It is really dire. Dreadful dialogue, acting, over acting, and so on and so on

Yes, the men are all helpless, hopeless etc

Elswyth · 22/08/2014 00:49

I didn't finish episode three!

Hermione Norris is particularly dreadful in this, I thought.

SpanishFly · 22/08/2014 07:01

Um thanks for the spoiler Hmm
"Rosie's baby is fine, false alarm"

SecretSpy · 22/08/2014 11:35

It's really dreadful rubbish.

But I am rather enjoying it Blush - I can't help but watch anything with babies (and mine are bigger now) and I always enjoy Kay Mellor programmes.

I am very distracted by all the familiar faces - Jambo from Hollyoaks, the very wooden actor from Casualty that fathered the teacher's baby, and Hermione's nasty husband is the comedy policeman from Doc Martin, isn't he? The young girl with the baby is quite good though. And Gill Halfpenny is very watchable IMHO.

SpanishFly · 22/08/2014 14:24

What on earth was Simon's mum all about?! She behaved as if she'd never seen anyone in labour before far less been through it herself. When the waters broke she screeched "what's that?!" She was like a comedy panto character

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