EASTENDERS 74 - new year. New thread and 40yr anniversary in feb . NO SPOILERS

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So nasty nish is dead

Bianca is still mia. Prob a bit smelly and hungry 🙀😂

Teddy and shazza are an item

Look alike martin and ruby are as well

Stacey will vanish soon as preg

Cindy is alive but who thumped her - I'm saying junior

Wedding for billy and honey next month

Which is ee 40th anniversary

Sure other stuff but can't think what

Who else will appear to say hello

I'm watching on catch up but I just want to reach inside the tv and give Phil a hug.

I am such a girl fan of Steve McFadden !
He really is a true EE legend along with June Brown. Such talent is rare in a soap , but he nailed it today

I KNOW I will be in the minority here, but I really don't like these cringey throwback episodes. They do nothing for me, I don't much care about characters of old, and I just want the storylines to return to normal
I groaned when I saw the old opening tune and the blackbird story was a corn-fest.
That said, I'm willing to accept that modern day Phil is smashing it with his acting 👌

Oh me too, I was willing Jay to hug him before he went out the door.

It was indulgent at times, but it's their anniversary and they get a pass for being sentimental. It certainly made me cry.

Totally this!

I really wanted him to tell Phil that he loved him!

I thought this

ans Kevin from motherland 😂

Aww! It was great today. I'm a sentimental one today and can't believe they are nearly forty !

I liked that Minty was mentioned too.

A very moving episode and I love Ah Ha.

Looking forward to next week.

Phil's Dad was a shit of the highest order.

I liked the bit where Peggy said that that's what you think I would have said but I'm not here to say otherwise so it's all we've got. Sad and clever.

Brilliant ep tonight
Great acting from Phil
EE classic!

He really was! Can't believe he gave Phil a bullet with his name on it 😳

I'm the same. I'm enjoying Steve's performance but I wasn't alive 40 years ago so seeing long-dead characters does nothing for me.

It was! I did chuckle at the point where Old Phil is observing the conversation going on in the past, and then he started shouting at them and they all just looked at him in shock as if to say 'where did he come from?' 😂

I think the point of the throwback was to show how Phils utterly vicious, abusive father is how he found himself having this breakdown and the issues with addiction
It's been touched on previously in another episode.

Omg when he was saying how his body should be dead despite everything he had done to it😭

I don’t normally bother with flashback Episodes because it’s usually an excuse to rewrite history.

but I thought it was so clever to have him looking back at his lowest point.

Young Phil was so good, must have been so daunting to have Steve McF there while he’s copying his voice and mannerisms.

It's often been told about how the Mitchell boys were treated by Eric and how their parents seemed to favour Grant and Samantha over Phil ( although yesterday he did have a pop at Grant about being in the Army)
He was just so horrible and Peggy had to put up with a lot and some domestic abuse.
No wonder Phil is like he is

I totally agree. Phil's little monologue to Jay was brilliantly acted and I was just so disturbed for him 😞

I was just watching some of the endings/when characters leave (it popped up on my Internet) and I've just rewatched Lola's and it was so well done. Phil did go and see her, i know he said he couldn't say goodbye yesterday but he did go and see her, stood in the doorway.

The backstory to the Mitchell's has always been really well thought out.

Phil did see Lola and paid for the funeral too.
They will all miss him and his safe full of cash if he ever leaves as they all go to him for financial help ( or rip him off !)

You are a young bun 😂

I started watching at 11 much to my mothers disgust

Eric was never alive! Not in EastEnders, so the only dead one is Peggy