EASTENDERS - and Grant coming home

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grant comes home

Blondes swoons 💓💓

When will they find out babes is blackmailing

Is bobby going to be revealed as the killer as sure IAN won't do the cost Saver deal and someone - possibly Kyle will buy the restaurant

Will LEE have a std

What else is there?

I'm an episode behind and I've just heard in the RADIO that Peggy is dead...what?!?!?!

I want to call in sick to work to watch now!!

I am going to go against the grain and say I was disappointed with last nights episode.

20 minutes of secret goodbyes and totally fake "poignant moments", 8 minutes of Mitchell bickering and 2 of genuine good episode at the end.

I did like the comedy back drop of the toilets being shifted back next door though.

Ah that explains it Bluethursday i did know Perry was named after Perry I love Kathy Burke not enough of her on tv imo

Thank you Jason

Soup

I banish you to the kiddie cupboard!!!

But seriously i totally get the dislike at the Grant tick boxes, Go to pub, fight with Phil, Kiss sharron, be told off by Peggy, stand side by side with peggy in the iconic mitchell pose.

I wasn't crazy about the episode. Pat's death was much more moving.

I thought Ross Kemp was fine and I'm looking forward to seeing more of him in the summer, especially if he's not wearing much . Presumably he'll return with Courtenay.

I think they did the actual suicide very very well, all by just inferring it rather than showing it. The rest of the episode though was just set pieces strung together.

I think the end made the episode really was really endearing and sensitive

I think the end of the episode was done well, but I didn't much like the rest of it either. It was all a bit surreal. The wandering through the Vic bit and all of that.

Surreal and repetitive - Peggy walking round the square with her boys, Peggy looking forlornly round the Vic...really boring.

I thought the best part by far was with Pat- very emotional at the end when she said she would never leave her. Rest felt forced/rushed, but the ending was spot on.

The rest was just fluff and filler the end was brilliant it was like 2 different writers wrote the episode

I didn't like the episode much at all, I spent most of it thinking "just do it tomorrow", "give your daughter a ring", "give everyone else time to get used to the idea". It's one thing to do it completely secretly or to do it with the agreement & support of your loved ones but to just turn up, tell them you're terminal & then ask them to help you end it that day is incredibly mean & selfish. She had time. She could've waited a few days for everyone to get their heads around it & gather together as a family. Now Phil/Grant are forever going to have the guilt that they didn't hide her pills well enough & went off to the pub while she died. Sharon's also going to know she was the last one who saw her alive & knew she was acting a little odd so could've walked her home & stayed to make sure she was ok. If she'd just had a stroke/heart attack in her sleep then no-one would've felt like they could've prevented it & we could've just focussed on how sad it is that Peggy's dead not that I really care given how long she's been gone for. That's assuming they're going to show them reacting to her suicide & not just her death.

It's not real, I know this...

I thought it was badly done. It all seemed a bit rushed.

I don't know why Peggy was only in it for 2 episodes? Couldn't they afford any more? All the walking round in a daze saying "ello darling" got on my nerves.

She should have been at the party, done the toast, had a little stint behind the bar, rang the bell and called last orders and then gone home and popped off.
And Sharon should have snogged Grant's face off!!!
I would

She's a damn now AGun they could only afford her for 5 days.

Dame... obviously not damn

I thought they over-egged the pudding a bit. It was a bit mawkish and overly syrupy. Great to see Grant back. I could watch him read a phone book.

Och its Dame Babs she can have the glory for a day or so it was silly and ott and milked for all it was worth I enjoyed it in all its silliness

Fair comment Mrs Jayy. It is a soap after all I suppose!

I think she wanted to get on with it because she is very aware that she is losing herself. She is clearly in pain and keeps forgetting. She knows it's only going to get much worse and fairly quickly being in her brain. I think she wanted to do it while she was still 'herself'.

I didn't know Grant was coming back again. Makes sense now he was going on about the money etc. I did think why we're they setting up another storyline when he will be buggering off. And he mentioned Courtney so she'll probably be back with him.

Do agree about the first 20 mins or so being a filler. But loved that end bit with Pat. Proper character-driven drama rather than the ridiculous plot-driven crap there mainly is now.

Did Sam even get a mention? She seems UK have been airbrushed out of history, like Peggy only had the two boys. Surely Daniella westbrooke would come back to EE like a drop of a hat?

Loving seeing Grant again. Half the characters now seem to be the old ones. Just need Michelle to complete the golden circle.

to not UK!

Grant said she was getting a flight over i think she lives in the algarve too

Sam was mentioned insofar as she was getting a letter like Grant was going to. Daniella Westbrook is back for the funeral.

Seeing Pat made me miss her. They really shouldn't have killed her off. Pam St Clement was always brilliant.