I don’t understand how we’re already past the halfway point of the year, and yet another week seems to have flashed by in a matter of minutes. There are a lot of people in Erinsborough acting like tools lately, so let’s unpack the toolbox.
Holly Does a Holly Again
Determined to gather evidence to convict the poisoner and try to take some of the blame for the poisoning scandal away from Leo’s vineyard, Holly follows the creepy doctor (I know his name, but couldn’t be bothered to look up the spelling, so he shall forever be known as Creepy Doctor). He rumbles her and drags her to his apartment, threatening her with a syringe full of poison.
Once there, terrified Holly is tied up and and shoved into the bath, while he packs his bags ready to try to leave the country and do a runner. There was some very good acting in this scene, it was quite intense.
The next morning, Karl is worried that Holly didn’t come home without letting anyone know, so he goes looking for her at Mackenzie’s. She’s obviously not there, but Mackenzie tells him that she was on the trail of the Creepy Doctor and suspected him of being the poisoner, so Karl goes to Andrew. They go to the hospital to try to find him, where Remi tells them that he missed his commendation ceremony for solving Dex’s poison case, and this sets off major alarm bells for both Andrew and Karl.
Andrew cooks up a scheme to try to get a look inside Creepy Doctor’s apartment and enlists Remi to deliver the certificate he should have been awarded earlier. While at the door, she catches sight of Holly, and they all rush in to rescue her. Andrew tackles Creepy Doctor, and in the struggle that ensues, Creepy Doctor is injected with his own poison.
For once Holly is right about something, but she really did go off half-cocked and almost wound up being the latest poison victim. Despite her success this time, I don’t think she should open the Hoyland Detective Agency any time soon.
Vic Does a Runner
Somehow Vic has gone from being too weak to go for a walk in the woods to being miraculously in full remission from his cancer. He suddenly realises that the money he was going to use to buy into the vineyard is going to be required for him to live on now his cancer isn’t terminal, so he does a runner. He takes the coward’s way out and just leaves notes for Nicolette and Byron to explain why he’s left. He’s really left a whole mess behind him, what with the vineyard rescue deal now falling through and leaving Leo in the lurch, and also having planted a big old kiss on Jane and leaving her even more confused about her feelings for Vic and, in turn, Mike.
This latter action did give us a return of Drunk Jane though, and we all love Drunk Jane.
What is Logan Up To?
Logan continues to be extremely dodgy and suspicious, but now at least there are a couple of people who are getting bad vibes from him. Remi sees him at the drinks van and recognises him from somewhere, but Logan point-blank refuses to accept that she knows him. Later on, she remembers that she met him at a medical conference and confronts him about it, but at first, he denies he was even there, and then he says he was just there as catering staff when Remi clearly remembers talking to him about his medical specialty.
Melanie overhears these two conversations and seems to be a little suspicious of him too, so at least she’s now questioning the wisdom of hiring an absolute stranger.
The one person who isn’t suspicious is Aaron, and he is the one who needs to be the most wary. Logan clearly knew David, and now he’s hanging around Aaron in a way that seems pretty unhinged. He asks Aaron to give him a cocktail lesson and poses for a photo in the exact same way that David did when they had their saucy cocktail session before he died, which sends Aaron into a spiral.
Stay away from him Aaron, this guy is so sketchy that Wendy could submit him as part of her art degree coursework.
Sky’s At Her Limit
Exactly who does Sky think she is? I can understand that she’s concerned about the safety at the retirement complex after the spate of thefts, but to barge in and announce that she’s taking Harold back to Queensland, without even consulting him about it, is absolutely out of order. Then she starts packing up his things! It’s outrageous, Harold is not a child.
Anyway, after seeing Harold interacting with his friends, she realises that he’s happy, and what she’s doing is deflecting how much she’s missing Harold by conjuring up reasons for him not to be in Erinsborough. So thankfully, she doesn’t end up kidnapping him and whisking him back north.
Incidentally, I was absolutely floored by the scene between these two where Sky says that she came in “all guns blazing” and Harold remarks that she always was her mother’s daughter, whilst pointing a finger gun at her head and saying, “Bang!”. Now, I know this is in response to her comment about “all guns blazing”, but it is so absolutely inappropriate for Harold to mime shooting her in the head when her mother was shot dead. What on Earth? I had to rewind this scene and watch it twice to make sure I hadn’t hallucinated it. It may well have been a little inside joke for the viewers by the writers, but purely in the context of the characters and their backstories, it was an absolutely unbelievable thing to say.
JJ Continues to be a Dunce
There’s not much to say about JJ, other than he is continuing to be a thicko deluxe by trying to jazz Dex up to ask Nell out on a date while fully aware that she’s not into him. JJ knows that Nell likes him, so why does he think trying to set her up with his brother is going to work out? How does he think this is all going to play out in the end? How is this going to end up in any other result than with Dex feeling humiliated? Honestly, I cannot cope with this kid.
Wendy Turns the Cringe Up to 11
I also genuinely cannot deal with how embarrassing Student Wendy is. She was bad enough when she was just Normal Wendy, but now she’s partying with her student friends and trying to use young people’s slang, it is making me cringe so hard that I almost turned my face inside out.
I’m getting affair vibes from this Quinn guy too. Is she going to cheat on Andrew? Probably, because she’s absolutely off her head.
A FEW RANDOM NOTES
As usual, here are a couple of my random notes from this week, there was a lot of caps lock happening:
- SUSAN AND TERESE NEED TO STOP LETTING THEMSELVES INTO HAROLD’S FLAT.
- VICTOR!!!!!!!
- I completely forgot that Leo and Kiri were cousins. The Robinson family tree must look like a spiderweb.
