We had a pretty big week on Neighbours, with an arrival, two departures, a nearly fatal accident and a big pan of cabbage soup. Let’s crack on with the round-up.
Cara Briefly Fights For Her Life
After a very dramatic end to last week, which left Cara bleeding out in hospital while Holly was presumably still standing uselessly outside the hotel with her hand over her mouth, Cara bounces back suspiciously quickly. She comes out of surgery, is briefly unconscious, and then wakes up and seems to be absolutely fine.
Holly confesses that she was the cause of the accident, but Cara disagrees, saying that she should have cordoned off the area where she was working, but she didn’t in order to save herself some time. Dex doesn’t agree though, and gives Holly a mouthful about how she nearly killed his mum, which sets Holly back in her journey to try to get over all of her various traumas. More on that later.
I can’t help thinking that there are going to end up being further repercussions after Cara’s accident. Surely, with all this baby talk and Cara having injuries to her abdomen, there’s going to be an issue with her being able to carry a baby. If that is the case, Dex is going to go absolutely stratospheric at Holly. It’s nice to finally see this kid getting some storylines, even if most of them seem to be powered by him getting the wrong end of the stick about something.
Terese is Back
I don’t know if I took a micronap while I was watching Neighbours, but I was under the impression that Karl and Susan had asked Terese to resign and yet she comes back to Erinsborough, having seemingly conquered her alcoholism in the space of about two weeks, and immediately starts trying to get her job back.
Her suggestion is that she does some remote work on the business side of things, and leaves Karl and Susan on the spot to deal with the day-to-day running of the complex. At first the residents seem to be on board with this, but then Moira stages a coup. She’s apparently been advised by Tim Collins that they’re entitled to compensation for the complex not providing them with a safe place to live, and her main condition for things going forward is not to let “that woman” (Terese) anywhere near the place.
I’m going to guess that it gets left to Harold to sort all this out, even if Moira is trying to oust him as the residents’ representative. Somehow it always seems to be left down to Harold.
We Say Goodbye To Melanie and Vic
Vic’s purchase of his country pub has gone through faster than any property sale in world history, and so he says goodbye to everyone as though he’s never going to see them again, despite the pub being close enough for him and Jane to have taken a day trip to it the other week.
Meanwhile, Melanie is also leaving, and she’s pointedly not invited Vic to her going away drinks, but he turns up anyway in order to gift her a box of chalk. Chalk makes me feel physically sick, so I can think of few things that would be a worse going away present for me, but then I don’t work anywhere with a specials board, thankfully.
Melanie says goodbye to everyone and drives off in her vile blue jacket, but then she gets a phone call from Madam Zolga, and because she’s a ridiculous person with the brain of a pea, she changes her plans entirely based on what her hack of a psychic says, and rocks up at Vic’s pub instead. I’ve never been keen on either of them, but this is a pairing that makes sense to me. I hope they’re both so happy at the pub that we don’t see them much from now on. Or ever.
Krista’s Friend is an Absolute Melt
Leo seems to spend more time wandering around Lassiters during work hours than he ever spends at the vineyard, so I’m not particularly surprised he’s so bad at business that he’s let someone run up a $20k bill without taking any sort of security measures. The birthday boy in question subsequently does a runner, leaving Leo $20k in the hole and with no way of tracking down the guy apart from one photo.
When Krista sees the photo, she starts acting strangely, and then Leo finds an envelope containing $20k pushed under the door. The plot thickens when he turns up at Krista’s flat and finds a topless man there. He’s naturally furious that the person who did him out of $20k turns out to be an old friend of Krista’s called Sebastian, and she didn’t tell Leo she knew him, she just handed him thousands of dollars in order to pay him back for her friend’s theft. She’s also now asked him to move in with her, and to top it off, Byron sees him doing what looks suspiciously like a drug deal.
Leo is naturally worried about such a hardcore partier and basically petty criminal being around Krista, as he’s worried he’s going to lead her astray. I can understand why he’s worried, but he is being a little bit caveman over the whole thing – he doesn’t get to choose his girlfriend’s friends. Having said that, I don’t like Sebastian in the slightest, he seems like an absolute piece, and all of his knitwear is revolting.
#HellfireHolly
Holly is approached by the Crimesborough podcast about doing an episode on the drama in the outback, and she decides this might be the thing that helps her move on from the trauma – by telling her side of the story.
In a turn of events that should surprise nobody, the podcast host chops Holly’s audio up to make her sound like a callous murderer, and christens her Hellfire Holly. Instead of it being the healing process that she expected, Holly finds herself thrust into the spotlight once again, with everyone talking about her and thinking she’s a murderer.
She goes to Paul for advice, on account of him being the local villain, and his absolutely terrible advice to her is that she could consider leaning into it. She does seem to be going full villain, as she yells at people in the pub and then rubs some sort of unspecified goop into Max’s face. Max is already a bit of a baddie himself, so I kind of like the idea of him and Holly becoming some sort of villainous power couple, even if they were practically step-siblings until very recently.
A Few Random Notes
As usual, here are a few random notes I took while watching Neighbours this week, which seem to be mostly jacket-based:
- Nicolette’s hideous green coat needs to go into landfill. May as well put it there while she’s still wearing it.
- Who is this doofus in the horrible cardigan?!
- Did Melanie skin Cookie Monster for that jacket?
- Karl’s soup is basically just a pan of liquid farts
