Is Max Branning co-dependant? I mean the desperate urge to please Emma's parents over a veggie supper and get her in situ, which she looks less than enthusiastic about, seemed a bit weird.
I do like the way he walks and talks as an actor, very "chippy", cocky, mini-neathanderal, but clingy with it (just ew again .... ew!). I wish there was more depth though to it though, as this persona has been going on for a couple of years now and its getting old. That's soaps for you!
Agree, Emma either a terribly unconvincing actress, or playing "under cover". Still, the police would never sleep with someone just for information would they 
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I know what you're saying AGnu. Though to be fair, though Dot is sometimes mocked for her beliefs, she is equally often presented as the only deep-thinker in the whole show, or even the BBC...
The blondie one going out with the Latvian market manager - gets more botoxed and puffy with her face and blonde hair every passing episode; she may float up to the sky like some helium balloon one of these days. Also watching her constant strained, fake smile in the relationship she is desperately trying to believe she is having