Emmerdale with social distant acting, it's not great but better than nothing.....

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It's been such a strange year for us all but never more so than for the people of the dales, what will Christmas and the New Year episodes bring...........some lighthearted relief I hope but probably not.

Meena is bloody awful. Yet again she managed to turn the situation round to be all about her.

Agreed. Terrible character, terrible actress.

Also, based on the timeline of Manpreet’s secret life, Aisha should only be about 22 by now. That’s the Aisha that Manpreet tried to set up with 40-something Jai a few years back

I would still like to know how old Meena is meant to be. There was some comment between them when she first arrived about sharing toys as children and it seemed ridiculous, as Manpreet is surely at least 15 years older.

The same with Mackenzie. Even if he was only five or six when Moira left, that would still put him in his late thirties, which doesn’t fit his character or appearance. I believe the actor is only 29.

Good list!

They missed off “look fabulous throughout”

These backstories are ridiculous. As PP said the age discrepancies between Moira and Mackenzie and Manpreet and Meena don't make sense. I very much doubt that Ethan would harbour that much of a grudge against Manpreet for something that happened 15 years ago.

Instead of inventing this kind of tosh, I'd much rather they reintroduced some of the characters from the Classic days. However, not sure how many of them went on to have much of an acting career.

It's weird as the actress who plays Meena seems to be keeping her age under wraps. Meena could easily be in her twenties or thirties. If she had an affair with Manpreet's husband 10-15 years ago (based on Manpreet finishing her affair with Charles 15 years ago) that easily puts her into her thirties.

So for them to play together as children Manpreet would have to be around 45 and Meena late thirties which is just about believable. Although the confusion lies with Meena acting so immature all of the time.

How old is David meant to be? He seems to have been stuck in the early thirties bracket for years. It would be interesting to know if Meena is meant to be older or younger than him!

Meena looks closer in age to jaycub than David.

David is 40 this year!

I think Manpreet is Meena's mother & it'll come out like The Kat & Zoe storyline in Eastenders

@dontgetmewrong

I think Manpreet is Meena's mother & it'll come out like The Kat & Zoe storyline in Eastenders

I agree. Stories do seem to be repeated over the different soaps.

Oh good, we can have another:
YOU'RE NOT MY MOTHER!
YES I AM!

How many secrets can Manpreet have?!

Also, hasn’t the whole ‘child knew her under a different name and never forgave her for leaving’ story been done, relatively recently, with Harriet and Dawn?

That counsellor looks like Rhona!

Oh FFS!! How many dramatic stories can we have in a week? Did we really need Carl’s mother to appear the day after manpreets ex announced himself?

Leave Carl alone!

I don’t care about the new vicar storyline ,

It’s weird that Harriet is counselling Charles on his situation with the woman who lied about who she was for two years and behaved like a mother to his child. Maybe will and dawn should be the ones to counsel him through that, Harriet is really manpreet in this scenario.

Wow! Rishi is pissed off big time.

Ooh is that vodka? I have to say Charlotte Bellamy does drunk brilliantly so I kinda want Laurel to drink it!

I still don't get why Rishi is so pissed off. Am I missing something. This happened 15 years ago so nothing to do with Manpreet and Rishi. She's not the only person in the world who doesn't divulge every detail of previous relationships.

As for keeping Meena a secret from Rishi I think we would all keep that secret if we had a sister like Meena!

I found the social distancing during the counselling session too much!
They sat miles away from each other and from the laptop and just called over to it from a distance!!!

@JaneJeffer

Ooh is that vodka? I have to say Charlotte Bellamy does drunk brilliantly so I kinda want Laurel to drink it!

You would be a terrible friend for an alcoholic!

“You’re so much fun when you drink”

I wanted Laurel to be the new Shadrach but they didn't go for it