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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp; Karma" data-source="post: 207517" data-attributes="member: 23">Episodes 331-336  (...continued)As things simmer up towards boiling point, the three key players in this piece actually spend a great deal of time operating independently of one another. Bobby confides in Donald while Frank avoids her. And Roo has sought out a relatively neutral party:Peter Bensley’s Shacting is really irritating me. At this point I can barely stand watching him. Lance and Martin scenes are a joy in comparison. Andew’s scenes invariably feature his arms flying about all over the place. Weird pauses. Fake laughs. Eccentric hand gestures and head tilts. By recent standards he’s fairly restrained in the scene with Roo, though even here Bensley seems to spend much of the time trying to draw the viewer’s attention away from Justine Clarke’s moving stillness by fidgeting with his pencil, rubbing it over his face, balancing it it under his nose. Putting his feet on the desk. Or simply staring intently at her while her back is turned. He’s mostly successful at getting my attention by devious means and I’m starting to resent him for it because it’s not for the good of the series. It’s just that his mannerisms are so distracting. He really doesn’t feel like an ensemble player. Carly’s mid-year exam results have just come through, but we won’t say too much because it involves a great deal of Andrew.Carly, though, does have a great little one-to-one with Bobby over the kitchen table:<img src="https://i.vgy.me/YBCebx.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The scene implicitly shows the growth these two have made over the last year. Both sensible, grown up and pragmatic. And with genuine care for one another. It’s good to see.Bobby is also talking things through with Donald:In a nice touch, Donald also tries to get through to Frank and offers his support. Something which Frank sulkily acknowledges while making clear he has no intention of taking him up on it. Though he’s not so shy when it comes to making time to speak to Roo:This takes Frank in a direction that’s even more sordid and slimy than even kissing his ex-girlfriend. There’s the sense that he’s bored in his marriage but won’t bail until he’s certain he’ll have a warm fanny waiting for him. It’s incredibly ugly, but also feels very truthful for a nineteen year old with a dysfunctional past who has married in haste.Roo eventually decides that the solution is to quit her job for good. A situation Tom walks in on when he returns to work:<img src="https://i.vgy.me/WfgxZU.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />continued...</blockquote>

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