Another week has whizzed by already, but at least the sun has been shining on us here in the UK. Let’s crack on with rounding up all the antics on Ramsay Street from this week.
Roxy is Setting Susan Up
Roxy continues with her apparent plot to oust Susan from her post at Eirini Rising. I’m not sure why she’s so hell bent on working there, if she wanted to come back to Erinsborough, couldn’t she just get a job of her own instead of taking someone else’s?
Anyway, her tactics this week are messing with things that Susan has organised in order to make her look incompetent, and also so that Roxy can swoop in and save the day in order to make herself look good. She’s basically doing the business equivalent of those killer nurses who poison people and then rush in to resuscitate them. Sorry, I’ve been watching a lot of Murder By Medic recently…
She rejigs the stationery order from 200 boxes to 20 and changes the magician that Susan booked to some sort of penis contortionist, much to Vera’s delight.
What I’m struggling to understand with this storyline is why she’s being so downright sneaky and unpleasant when she could just ask her auntie for a job. Obviously Terese wouldn’t just give her Susan’s job, but Roxy is clearly proving her worth and I’m sure Terese would try to find a role for her without Roxy having to make Susan look like she should be moving into one of the apartments instead of running the place.
Anyway, the plot thickens later on in the week when Roxy runs into a mysterious looking bloke in the pub. I wonder who he’s going to turn out to be? He’s got a shaved head so he’s obviously trouble.
Cara Comes Clean
Cara and Remi come over to Nicolette’s house with an, “I’m sorry your tomboy turned out to be a cleaning spray thief” gift for Jane, and while they’re dropping it off, Cara spots a couple of clues that Nicolette might not be on her own. Sure enough, a few minutes later she barges back in to find Nicolette and Maddie together.
Nicolette comes over to beg for Cara’s forgiveness and Remi walks in on a conversation that makes it very obvious the two of them have been hiding things from her. It’s only then that Cara decides that she should come clean to Remi about seeing Chelsea at the airport, which it would have been so much easier to tell her WEEKS ago.
Remi is mad, but she understands that Cara had a lot on at the time, and seeing her pregnant sister having just had an emergency hysterectomy had been confronting. The two of them manage to sort things out, but they’re both incredibly frosty to Nicolette, leaving her feeling lonely and isolated. Again.
I honestly don’t know what she expects at this point – she keeps repeatedly dropping grenades in other people’s lives and then seems unable to understand why she doesn’t have that many friends.
JJ Is an Idiot Again
JJ is being a whiny little toad about the fact that Nell is doing a graphic novel for her homework assignment and she’s enthusiastically showing it to Dex, who shares her interest in comics. How old is JJ supposed to be now? 16? If you need it explaining to you at 16 that you’re going to have different interests to the people in your life then I don’t know what to say to this kid.
In his hurry to get Nell away from her tablet and back to paying him attention he manages to smash it and all her files get corrupted. Of course, because Dex is a computer nerd, he manages to work some wizardry and get most of her files back, but they’re an older version, and the two of them have to stay up late all night to recolour everything.
Rather than being thankful to his brother for helping Nell save her project, JJ behaves like a jealous idiot and has to have Nell explain to him that they don’t have to like all the same things. I just don’t know how JJ gets through an average day without injuring himself or wandering into traffic.
Why Exactly Are Krista and Leo Getting Married?
Krista and Leo end up having yet another argument, which seems to be a daily occurrence at the moment. Fallon is reminding me of the bit in the last Harry Potter book when they were carrying one of the horcruxes with them and whoever was wearing it became really irritable and unpleasant. I think Fallon might be a horcrux.
Seb gets in touch with Krista because he’s in a good place having been to rehab, and says he would really like to see her. Krista is reluctant, but Fallon puts pressure on her to see him. Leo, of course, is not happy about the idea of Krista having anything to do with Seb.
Fallon suggests to Leo that he should read the letter Seb sent to Krista because he keeps wondering what it said and Krista has refused to tell him about all of it. He does, and then he immediately blows up at Krista for even thinking about wanting anything to do with Seb. When Krista asks him to trust her, he says it’s difficult for him, which is a bit rich coming from the guy who just snooped through her things and read her private letter. Krista stands up for herself but, as usual, backs down really quickly and things rapidly get back to normal between them, foiling Fallon’s plans yet again.
Meanwhile, Fallon goes into the city and finds the reportedly clean and sober Seb on an absolute rager in a bar. She’s furious with him because she needs him sober if he’s going to tempt Krista away from Leo. Seb finally vocalises what I’ve been thinking for ages – that Fallon enjoys picking up Krista’s exes.
Seriously though. When is Krista going to notice that Fallon hates her? She doesn’t even attempt to hide her contempt, she very much wears her inner monologue on her face at all times. Is Krista dim?
Max Is Still Missing
Everyone is being incredibly chill about the fact that Max was being threatened by criminal types and then vanished off the face of the earth. Even Andrew thinks it’s fine, and his daughter was drugged and kidnapped by the same people.
The only person who has any inkling that something might be wrong is “Bargain Bin Roxy”, AKA Holly. She’s realised that the texts she’s been getting from Max don’t sound like him, and use different emojis to the ones he normally uses. Holly goes to Roxy, who sets aside her new Turbo Cow persona in order to look through the messages with Holly. Roxy agrees with her, so the two of them start to try to figure out what’s going on.
Holly goes to Andrew with her suspicions, but he’s the dimmest police officer to ever grace the streets of Erinsborough and he thinks it’s absolutely nothing to be concerned about. Come on Andrew…
Another Lame Party
It’s time for another party, in the form of Krista and Leo’s hag do and, following the precedent set by every other party there has ever been in Erinsborough, it looks incredibly lame. The theme is denim, so everyone looks like they’ve covered themselves in glue and rolled through a charity shop in Nashville, and the party takes place in the world’s smallest courtyard in the middle of the complex, with everything rammed in together. It honestly looks like such a terrible party – my nephew’s party for his second birthday was more of a banger than this.
It does give Aaron a chance to observe Fallon a bit more than he’s been able to so far though, and he seems to be the only person in the whole suburb to notice that 99% of the time she wears an expression that suggests she’s just smelled a particularly noxious guff. I can’t wait for Aaron to get out of his Canadian tuxedo, pop on his mystery-solving gear and start trying to figure out what her deal is. He uncovered the poo terrorist, so I have absolute faith that he can work out what Fallon’s up to.
A Few Random Notes
As usual, here are a few random notes I took while watching Neighbours this week:
- This is why you lock your doors, Nicolette, so your neighbours don’t just walk in and see who you’re snogging.
- I like how Aaron and Taye are calling each other “Water Hole” and “Piano Bar”.
- Leo to Fallon: “Are you mad?” Yes. She’s always mad, can’t you tell from looking at her face?!
- Taye and Aaron would actually be cute together. Rhett, who?
