Echo Beach 107 review

Jason Donovan is a very harried man. He's rushing all over the place having awkward conversations and trying to make sure that his illegitimate son didn't sleep with Hannah Lederer's daughter and spawn a three-headed inbred. However they "just talked all night", as a coy and smirking girly-pink-shirt-clad Jimmy tells Charlie in the Jolly Roger pub:



Narinder is supposed to have had a tarty makeover this episode. She looks exactly the same but in hotpants. This is supposed to be a dramatic change. What would be a welcome change would be an adenoidectomy so we could hear her voice not coming out of her nose for a change.

Failed Lolita failed arsonist wannabe superbitch Grace has gone soft. Which is a shame, because she and Ian present one of the few glimpses of likely chemistry among the entire cast. And she can actually act, even if he can't. And it would be an enjoyably nostlagic echo of the coupling of Mike from Neighbours and Sophie from Home & Away.

Particularly if Ian also managed to die like Mike did. Crashing into the speeding orange campervan hotwired by a paralytic Fin and Mrs McCluskey. These two went on a date this week but kindly spared us from explicit geriatric passion. Fin manages to make his mouth turn down in exactly the same arc as the brim of his baseball hat.



Awful authoress Angela continues to be unspeakably awful. She also continues to look considerably older than Susan Penwarden.

Talking of the Penwardens, Mark Penwarden is wearing an unfortunate top that can only be described as "too tight across the bust". He's a fairly fit and fairly skinny man but the top in the suspicious-phone-call-scene with Susan gives him moobs.