Ok, so in the last week we have had Mister 'Erriott pitching up with a dodgy gun and 'the wife' with an even dodgier cardi. Their tower block which is clearly visible from their new window about to be condemned, yet I don't ever recall seeing it on the east end landscape previously.
Newish 'Chelle in a department store which boasts more staff than customers, newly recruited at a time when major stores like Debenhams are closing.
Jack and Charlie and their mind numbing storyline about who gets Maffew which involves Jack taking flowers to a grave which has a beautiful headstone, which in real life wouldn't be placed this early.
Then Dot, on a break from baking yet another sponge that never gets touched colludes with mad Max, who conveniently pitches up just at the very second Jack is about to uproot the kids and deftly snatches the keys from the car, through a conveniently fully opened window.
Kim arrives at Denise's pad to offer support and finds her sister pouring over her books. She spends a few minutes nosing on the new neighbours, Denise suddenly gets up to leave for an exam which started, all over the country, at 9.00 a.m. Well at least they got the day right. As predicted Denise provides her own drama and collapses at the end, after surely gaining a dream grade. The giggle when she opened the paper would have disqualified her had she sat the exam in real life.
And so to the main storyline, which had many of us regress to our childhood habit of watching Dr Who from behind the sofa. Yes, it happened, it wasn't a nasty figment of our imaginations, family man Mick, salt-of-the-earth Mick, so in love with his L Mick that he fancied her in her velour tracksuit and rollers, sans make-up, snogged his daughter-in-law. Twitney thought all her birthdays and Christmas's had come at once, we peeked through our fingers, silently screaming 'nooooooo' They can save this, these lazy dumbed down script team, they can give Mick a wake up call, he can feel as guilty as hell, rush back to L, and banish Twitney from the square making Romeo's departure from Verona appear as long winded as the over flowing bins storyline. But they probably won't. They will now embark on the overused predictable affair storyline.
In a week of clumsy plot lines, from the daft Honey's party and stained carpet, to the NHS trailer for preventing diabetes, which had reclusive Jane encouraging Ian to talk to fellow sufferers and featured a blind man to hammer home the dangers of ignoring diet advice, the scriptwiters went too far.
Mick would never cheat on Linda.
The shark has jumped.