A further Holby City thread

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New year, new thread! Looking forward to tonight's episode ...

Has anyone else got a girl crush on Petrenko?
Or is that just me...

I wouldn't call it a girl crush, elles, but I agree she is mesmerising to watch and a very cool character!

She irritates the crap out of me but I don't know why...

My husband laughs at me every week.. I think I just find her cool!

Petrenko irritates me too.

I have just finished a book that had a character who spoke exactly like her in my head! Probably not helped as the text was written as Freida speaks too

Like the Petrenko/Jac interaction.

I can't warm to Dr McGann. He doesn't seem to have any point to him other than wandering round lookong deep and mysterious.

And why are they letting Valentine sit and critique the surgery?

I really am not liking Ollie at the moment...

Bloody hell this is depressing

Ollie is being a complete tit..... obnoxious with it. Nice to see Hansen back although he's not his usual self really. Gaskell is beginning to seem rather slimy.

What an episode, at least the Ollie storyline is done. Has Essie left for good?

Watching a little behind time on iplayer - never in a million years would I have thought HH would do something like that!! Fletch looked utterly shellshocked....

I found that all rather odd and hard to get a handle on. There's angst all over the place and it's difficult to know what Ollie is supposed to understand and what not.
Plus the Ric thing seems to have all been sorted off screen. Lots of build-up to then not see the outcome.
So is that Ollie and Hanssen gone again?

I’m a bit confused by tonight’s episode. Was Ric found guilty? Has Gaskill led Essie to think it was her fault, does she know it was the implant that was the problem?

Ric was acquitted, Essie went snooping through Gaskell's files and he caught her, I think she's left as she's lost faith in him and the project etc etc and felt it wasn't what Raf would have wanted his legacy to be. Ollie I think is gone, not sure on Hansen although the trailer for next week suggests he's not about....
Who knows?! It all felt a bit disjointed again and yup plenty of angst, anger and bitterness along with a couple of mandatory 'fixed stare in to the distance whilst realising some profound truth' moments.....

I seldom watch a programme a second time, but I'm going to have to give that one another go - lots of major stuff happening and I couldn't get my head round it at all apart from gathering that Ric was acquitted .

Weird episode. Can't believe Hansen was sat yakking to Ollie at the end instead of apologising to Fletch. That's not the Hansen I know and love

More instant staff departures / extended leave - they should show us the HR department, there's got to be a lot of activity going on there surely!

Looked like Essie, Valentine and HH all gone. Too many departures and no interesting arrivals in the last couple of months.

I don’t think HH has left but he is stepping down as CEO (does this mean Serena stays?).

I think he needed to talk to Ollie more than he needed to apologise to Fletch. He was very harsh to Ollie and that needed more than just an apology.

I couldn’t decide whether Essie had left for good or not. Seemed an odd departure. I’m not 100% sure it was her fault anyway.

Seems Essie has gone too. This article just came up in my Google suggestions. Funny... fans mourn Oliver, what will we do without him bla bla. Oh and Essie left too.

www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz-tv/hot-tv/691983/Holby-City-Oliver-Valentine-James-Anderson-shock-exit-Essie-Harrison-Kaye-Wragg

Let's be honest, that's how we all feel.

Watching it now but its grossing me out.

HH is being a dick