How are we having another heatwave in the UK? I shouldn’t complain, at least we’re having some sort of summer here this year. Let’s take a break from fanning ourselves and trying to move around the house as slowly as possible with all the curtains closed to keep the heat out, and round up this week’s episodes of Neighbours.
Aaron Chooses the Man Whose Clothes Fit Properly
Aaron finally decides that he’s going to choose Rhett over Colton in the Battle of the Boyfriends and, because he wants to be as decent as possible, he goes to tell Colton in person. In a move which I think is a little inappropriate, Colton says goodbye to Aaron with a kiss on the lips, which Rhett happens to witness. They’ve only just become a couple and things have derailed already.
I’m not a Colton fan, but he does help smooth things over between Aaron and Rhett, and then he does my favourite thing that he’s ever done and decides to pack up all of his tiny clothing and go back to Queensland. I thought we’d have some super cute scenes of Aaron and Rhett in blissful happiness after Colton’s departure, but Rhett was nowhere to be seen for the remainder of the week.
I need them to be a new cute family, Neighbours, and I need to see it soon.
There’s Some Pie-Based Comedy
Karl is forging ahead with the dual tasks of handing in his resignation at Eirini Rising and running an unhinged pie promotion at the tram. Susan and Remi are both still convinced that Karl is going to regret leaving, so they’re scheming to try to convince him to stay. In the middle of all the pie competition chaos, Karl overhears them talking and finds out about their plot. He’s furious with both of them for not taking him seriously.
While I understand where Susan and Remi are coming from, and to a certain extent I agree with them, Karl is a grown-up and he needs to be able to make his own decision about something as important as his job. If he makes the wrong decision against everyone’s advice, then that’s on him. He’s hellbent on handing in his notice and going for a role with the council, so they need to just let him do it.
The pie competition has a few funny moments, with Sadie and Taye trying to use a clicker to game the system, and Vera and Gino being served at exactly the same moment, leading to some conflict over who’s won. Karl has stropped off by this point, so Susan declares them joint winners, and they’re both going to get a free pie every week. Of all the things that Karl has been mad with Susan about recently, this one is surely going to be the worst offence. Two pies-worth of lost revenue every week!
Andrew and Holly Are Still Being Weird
There’s still an obvious, and deeply inappropriate, attraction between Andrew and Holly, and she swoops in yet again to save his bacon ahead of his get together with his biological family. He’s a grown adult, but somehow can’t figure out how to make copies of some physical photos, because the scans Wendy did for him got corrupted. You have a phone, Andrew, just take photos of the photos and show them to your dad, then give him some hard copies later. It’s not perfect, but it’d do for now and save you from having a useless man breakdown.
Andrew’s get together goes well and he texts Holly to tell her. She replies that she’s been stood up by Max and she’s at a bar alone, so Andrew joins her for some more inappropriate cocktails. I seem to be using that word a lot this week…
They have a moment, and Holly dashes off to the toilet to get her head together. When she gets back, Andrew has ditched her. I’m sorry, but regardless of what’s going on between them, him just doing a runner without saying anything is a horrible move. I usually like Andrew, despite him being a bit useless, but he’s trying my patience at the moment.
Holly and Andrew need to sort out whatever is going on between them. Neither Wendy nor Max deserve to be cheated on, and the fact that Holly is Andrew’s daughter’s best friend makes the whole situation even more icky. They just need to spend some time apart and cool off, but I have a feeling that’s the exact opposite of what’s going to happen.
Byron is in For Some More Heartbreak
Byron is still feeling like a bit of a sad sack after his break up from Sadie and he doesn’t really know how to navigate them being friends going forward. She invites him to her birthday party, but he’s reluctant to go because he hasn’t really figured out how their friendship is going to look going forward. There’s a very awkward and hilarious conversation about getting back on the horse, riding people, and being ridden, which should serve as a lesson to us all that sometimes euphemisms are not the best answer.
I sensed a bit of a vibe between Sadie and Taye when they were at the pie contest, but later it becomes very clear that the person who Sadie is currently riding is Taye. Poor Byron is going to be devastated. I know that Sadie is now free to date (or ride) whoever she likes, but immediately hopping into Byron’s housemate’s saddle is a bit of an insensitive move. This is going to cause a whole lot of tension in the house share.
Saskia’s Behaviour Becomes More Bizarre
After it all comes out that Saskia has been throwing herself at Byron with all the vigour of a toddler throwing bread at the ducks, she seems to be changing her focus on to other people.
She’s boomeranged straight from Byron to Dex, and the poor hapless kid is absolutely lovestruck, frantically worrying about every last aspect of their first date. JJ and Nell have their suspicions that there’s something odd about Saskia, but she manages to convince everyone that she’s all sweetness and light by turning up with two pairs of bedazzled 3D glasses for the movie they’re going to see together.
Meanwhile, at school, Wendy is one of the only people giving Saskia a lot of attention and she seems to switch her laser-focused obsession with Byron on to Wendy instead, spending time making jewellery together and telling her all of her problems. While it’s lovely for a teacher to be supportive to a kid who is struggling to find their feet at a new school, I’m certain that Wendy’s behaviour is straying into the realms of inappropriateness (there’s that word again). Giving a student gifts and spending time crafting a necklace together without it being in the confines of an after-school club just raises a few red flags for me, and Wendy may soon learn that being Saskia’s favourite teacher might not be a good thing.
Leo is Oblivious
Krista and Leo return from their trip with Krista wondering if she might be pregnant. She seems less than thrilled about it, which is a signal that Leo is absolutely not picking up at all. She lost a baby in an incredibly traumatic way, so she’s bound to have a lot of big feelings about the prospect of possibly being pregnant again. At first she tries to do the pregnancy test in secret, but Leo spots it, so then she pretends she’s dropped it in the toilet. That doesn’t delay things for long because he goes out and buys another one, so Krista has to do it. When the test comes back negative, she’s obviously relieved, which again Leo does not pick up on.
Before you know it, he’s beaming ear-to-ear and telling Terese that they’re going to start trying for a baby, despite Terese knowing that Krista is having misgivings.
Honestly, Leo is being so clueless that it’s making me furious. Of course Krista is going to need support around issues of pregnancy and motherhood, that should be obvious to anyone, but he seems completely unable to pick up on any of her signals. Krista should just come out and tell him how she’s feeling, but she’s not doing that either. This is one of those silly Neighbours situations that will rumble on for a few days and become way more dramatic than it needs to be, when it could all be solved by just having an honest and open conversation.
Will they ever learn…?
A Few Random Notes
As usual, here are a few random notes I took while watching Neighbours this week:
- Oh no, a tour with Moira is the last thing that would make Remi apply for a job. Is Karl high?
- Everyone shouting “tight arse” at Karl 😂😂😂
- Aaron saying that it’s not Colton’s fault that Rhett got the wrong idea? It kind of is, you just kissed someone who told you they were entering into a serious relationship with someone else. It’s weird.
- Finally Andrew has realised hanging out in bars with his daughter’s best friend is inappropriate.
- Cara’s graduating already? She’s been in the academy for ten minutes.
