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EastEnders Redwater

Walford Boy

Walford Boy

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Is this going to be good or a turkey?
 
Cookiescholes

Cookiescholes

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Canon said:
The first episode has just aired here in Ireland. It feels a bit like a wild dream Kat may be having while dozing on a sun lounger in Spain.
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Is that good or bad? I read in tv mag there's a death in ep 1. If they have killed off Kat I will go off it.
 
James from London

James from London

International Treasure
I really liked it. It's as though, now that Enders itself has become more sober and sensible, all its residual nuttiness has washed up in Redwater.

(That said, a world in which Stacey Slater happily babysits for Lauren Branning still feels quite strange.)
 
Canon

Canon

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James from London said:
its residual nuttiness has washed up in Redwater.
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Though I wonder if the strengths of the show are in its more 'straight' scenes, the more ordinary scenes with the main family - the family gathering for the wake, the returning sister, the matriarch learning she's been left with nothing (Hmm, this sounds like the first episode of another soap) - the nuttiness with Kat and the priest almost seemed like a distraction in the second episode.

I've also just learnt that the show is actually called Kat & Alfie - Redwater in the UK, which probably highlights, along with the crap time slot, what faith the BBC had in it.
 
James from London

James from London

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It's got elements of Springhill -- the slightly supernatural/religious Sky soap from the 90s -- about it. And it's a bit like watching New DALLAS, in the way things resonate with the characters' pasts on ENDERS, intentionally or otherwise, like Tommy hiding behind a tree at the funeral the way Ronnie did at "his" funeral back in the day.
 
Walford Boy

Walford Boy

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I know it has bombed in the ratings, but I am really getting into it now. Its nice it is not just a vehicle for Jessie and Shane but a real ensemble piece.
 
Canon

Canon

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Be warned, there are multiple cliffhangers in the finale. Not sure how they're meant to work in relation to Enders.

Although I can imagine Kat and Alfie, when they eventually do turn up on the Square, vowing to never mention what happened in Ireland ever again.
 
Walford Boy

Walford Boy

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You were right, so many cliff hangers and if reports are true it is not coming back. :(
 
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