Before we get on with the Ramsay Street Round-Up for the 3rd to the 6th February, I just need to have one last desperate attempt to find someone to take the tickets to The Neighbours 40th Anniversary Tour that I can no longer use. They’re for row F in the gallery at Manchester on Tuesday 18th, if anyone’s interested in taking them.
That over with, it’s time to get on with the round-up.
Krista Loses Seb But Gains Fallon
Seb decides to shoot his shot and kiss Krista, but it doesn’t go as well as he expected. She knocks him back and immediately chucks him out, but she doesn’t tell Leo what happened, which seems like a mistake. We’ve all been watching Neighbours for too long to know that you can’t decide to keep something to yourself without it coming back to haunt you at some point.
Before Seb leaves he runs into someone he knows – Fallon, who also happens to be Krista’s half-sister. From their conversation it becomes clear that the two of them were romantically attached at some point, which Krista definitely doesn’t know about. They were serious too, as Fallon asked Seb to marry her – this is all going to get messy.
I’m not really sure why Fallon has taken the trouble to visit Krista, as she doesn’t actually seem to like her very much. Fallon sees Krista as a rich kid who wasted all of her advantages by partying too hard and getting sucked into addiction. She saw Seb kiss Krista by the lake and she knows that Krista is keeping it from Leo, so it’s pretty clear that if Leo is going to hear about it from anyone it’s going to be from Fallon. In the meantime, she’s probably just going to carry on wearing a facial expression that looks like she just smelled a fart, while Krista smiles blandly at her. What a weird family dynamic.
Holly Gives Nicolette a Serve
Holly finds out that Nicolette let Yaz escape, and she is justifiably furious with her, giving her a very public dressing down in the middle of the street. Bizarrely, Nicolette tries to defend Yaz, saying she was acting out of grief. When that doesn’t wash with Holly, Nicolette lashes out, saying that the way Holly went after Keith was selfish. What a bizarre way to deal with this situation. Sometimes I really like Nicolette and sometimes I think she’s a garbage person with absolutely no moral compass. She’s such a profoundly strange character.
Taye Causes Trouble
Talking of weird family dynamics, the Brothers Dim are still being lead astray by their Uncle Taye, who I’ve taken an immediate dislike to. Dex is way more under Taye’s spell than JJ is, so it’s him who goes all in when Taye decides to throw a party. It starts as Taye inviting a few people over, and turns into an absolute rager. Even Max comes around after finding Taye randomly lurking in his back garden, which definitely gives us a glimpse of the aspect Max’s personality that caused him to be on the run from some sort of crime kingpin for giving his brother roofies.
It’s clear that it’s JJ’s turn to have the Varga-Murphy siblings’ shared braincell this week, but even so he only makes some very half-hearted attempts to quieten the party down, and at no point does he actually do anything decisive – he just limply protests about getting into trouble and then has some sort of minor breakdown about the things he’s seen during the revelry.
It’s, of course, at the precise moment that Taye whips his kit off in the kitchen that Cara and Remi return home. I’m not entirely sure what the point of sending the kids home on their own and then following them couple of days later was, other than to facilitate this storyline, but here we are. Remi and Cara are both furious to find one of their sons drunk out of his mind and their house trashed, with a naked uncle in the kitchen.
Once the party has been cleared up, Remi begins to try to start mending the rift between her and her brother, who she hasn’t seen for a long time and has a strained relationship with. They try bonding over a very bland-sounding self-help seminar, but it all goes wrong as soon as Taye tries to get back on the bottle, and Remi asks him to refrain for a while.
If you ask me, it’s a bit rich of Taye to be angry that Remi thinks he’s a bad influence on the kids after he got one of her underage sons wasted. He is objectively a bad influence. He’s also creepily persistent with Fallon when he chats her up and she knocks him back, and he tries his charm on Jane with an unsolicited and smarmy comment about her being attractive. Ew. Do not like.
It remains to be seen whether I end up warming to him, as I often eventually do with new characters, but I’d be very surprised.
Jane Needs to Get a Grip
Jane is a grown-ass woman who’s made the decision not to date Clint, but it seems she can’t be in sight of him without losing her entire mind. Every time she sees him in the corridor at school she comes over all a-quiver and can’t keep her thoughts on track. He’s really not that hot, if you ask me.
Vera is also on the Clint train, but instead of being weird and uptight about it, she’s just loudly telling everyone who’ll listen about what a beefcake he is. I did enjoy her checking with him if he minded her flirting outrageously with him, even if it was a little bit late in the day – we love a queen who can recognise when she might have crossed a boundary.
Anyway, Jane just needs to bang him and stop being so weird about it all, and I think that may be what’s about to happen after she goes looking for him after hours at Eirini Rising. Who’s going to walk in on them in a store cupboard, then?
Nell’s Plot Backfires
Nell is still dark on Paul, and she becomes convinced he’s having an affair after she sees him hugging another woman and hears him talking to her very secretively outside the hotel. If he was really having an affair, why would he be doing PDAs in front of the hotel he owns and where everyone knows both him and Terese? Use your brain, Nell.
Rather than check her facts, she goes off half-cocked and tells Terese that Paul is having an affair, which is incredibly triggering for Terese considering what Toadie did to her. Yes, Nell. TOADIE. Your dad. He’s the last man who cheated on Terese – you might want to remember that.
When Terese confronts Paul he tells her that he’s been secretly volunteering at the food bank, but he didn’t want anyone else to know about it. Nell obviously feels embarrassed to have got it so wrong, but she doubles down and gives Paul a mouthful about what a bad person he is and how he’s bound to cheat on Terese sooner or later.
She seems to be coming around to him again later when she asks him for a photograph for her media studies project, but my Spidey senses are tingling. There’s more to this request than first appears – my guess is she’s going to use AI to produce photos of Paul that “prove” he’s cheating.
Cara Confides in Nicolette
Nicolette overhears Cara talking to her mum about Chelsea, and so Cara opens up and tells her all about seeing her at the airport. Seizing the chance to share a dirty airport secret with someone, Nicolette forcefully tries to bond with Cara over the fact that she hasn’t told anyone she saw Chelsea yet. Honestly, I can only see this as a desperate attempt by Nicolette to make herself feel like she’s not the only person who does crappy things in airports.
A Few Random Notes
As usual, here are a few random notes I took while watching Neighbours this week:
- If you’re confessing your love for someone, maybe don’t use their infantile nickname? Being called Krusty must be such a boner killer.
- Poor JJ is going to have a conniption.
- I think Dex has lost half of his brain.
- JJ’s meltdown about the “finger painting” is hilarious.
- Hahaha! The well placed cock over Taye’s cock.
- af tfaJane is being a real cow to Clint. He’s just trying to do his job and she’s giving him a sexually repressed death stare.
