Sometimes you witness something so gruesome it makes you want to gouge your own eyes out with a rusty spork. The scene played out in this week's Echo Beach between Jason Donovan and Hannah Lederer's daughter - talking in an icklegirlyvoice about being ready to "ride a bike" or not - was so excruciating it was also necessary to hack out your eardrums with a rusty chainsaw.
So just to recap Episode 6: Jimmy gets mad with Susan for kissing Jason Donovan; Hannah Lederer's daughter gets a new bikini; Mark and Fin fight; Jimmy and Hannah Lederer's daughter flirt; Jason Donovan and Hannah Lederer's daughter have the unspeakable (but sadly all too spoken) abovementioned conversation; Susan and Awful Angela chat; Brae and Jackie flirt; Jimmy and Grace fight; Jason Donovan and Jimmy chat; Jason Donovan and Fin talk; Jackie and Ian talk; Narinder and Charlie flirt; Susan and Grace talk; Brae and Jackie flirt more; Jimmy and Hannah Lederer's daughter flirt and talk and snog; Brae and Jackie drink; etc etc.
Anyone else spotting the woefully dreary pattern here? There doesn't seem to be a single three-way conversation going on in the entire episode, apart from a bit of dreary multipart muttering in the bar with Ivy. Is the Echo Beach budget so limited they can only use one camera? Or haven't the writers progressed past "Screenwriting 101 - The Art of the Duologue"? It's just an endless stream of gruesome twosomes. And by god are some of them gruesome this week.
The other week it was suprising to find out that Charlie is apparently related to Fin. And now it is even more astonishing to disover that that Fin is apparently supposed to suffer from learning difficulties or dementia or such like. We know Fin is supposed to be "old" (since he's the only male character aged over 40 in the entire cast) but is he supposed to have reached his second childhood? Because suddenly he's playing a stunning fusion of the yokel village idiot and Rainman:
Anyway Hannah Lederer's daughter ending up riding Jimmy's bike, all the while managing to talk through her nose. Whether it was supposed to be figurative or not doesn't really matter. Seeing Jason Donovan rushing around doing "frantic angst" was treat enough.
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That episode made me want to throw my tv screen out of the window - I was SCREAMING during the "riding a bike" conversation.
And, I didn't think Fin/Mike Baldwin looked a particularly Dale Winton shade of orange?
I was amazed by yet another show of on screen lack of chemistry between Jimmy and Abi as they rolled around in the sand and trying to make the sand avoid crecices. Ick ick ick. Maybe it was just a case of them not wanting to seem to keen on set - maybe they need new actors.
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