Heartbreaking scenes when Julie found out at her scan that her longed for baby didn't exist and that her positive pregnancy test had been due to an ovarian growth. It also gave Katy Cavanagh a chance to show she's not just a one dimensional ditzy comedy character and show off some genuine heartfelt and convincing acting.
However I 'm a little uncomfortable about this storyline. I'm no medical expert but out of curiosity I've done some research and it's extremely rare indeed that such a scenario would happen - and would it then really only have been discovered for the first time at a 12 week scan? I'm imagining there's some rather worried early mothers to be out there now. Like the various factual inaccuracies during the rape trial, (such as Carla being confronted by her rapist outside court) there's something about it that doesn't ring true, apart from sensationalism.
Otherwise laughs wereprovided by the equally unlikely but humorous camp reenactment of Bohemian Rhapsody (picture perfect in its moody quartet set up like Queen's original 1974 video) by Roy, Mary, Hayley and Anna in their anti-lap club sit in.
But it was Kirsty who apparently seemed to see off the ever sneering Terry's sleazy plans by nefariously using her position to discover Terry had apparently been bunging backhanders to Councillor Peake. Love the double act between snarling Terry and naive lapdop son Tommy.
Sally and Kevin became a devoted couple again but their happiness was marred by Sally suddenly being unable to cope with the presence of baby Jack, his son by dead ex mistress Molly. Again I found this storyline a bit out of the blue - Sally, a warm hearted woman, had never previously shown such hatred towards the innocent child, though presumably the thought of acting as his hands on stepmother made her feel differently.
Also - looking back at the hotpot storyline - would Betty really have bequeathed her precious recipe to non cook Sean of all people? Rather forced humour here as he dropped the precious recipe into the cooking pot as he tried to recreate the winning formula (secret ingredient is bottle of stout, according to Tina).
And Kylie and David's marriage seemed on the rocks as she walked out in the aftermath of Audrey's heart attack, at which the little ratboy amazingly has appeared to show some genuine remorse.
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I've struggled with this Julie storyline since I first heard mention of it. I feel it is highly unlikely that her chemical pregnancy/false pregnancy would go unnoticed *especially at her later age as they'd be checking things over vigorously I'd imagine* until her first ultrasound (or scan in UK). I find it somewhat unbelievable she'd have a false positive at all if it wasn't an ectopic or chemical pregnancy. I'm not a doctor however, just a woman prone to a life of infertility, but in my experience, this doesn't really make sense.
ReplyDeleteThat said, my heart genuinely breaks for Julie. She must feel foolish, embarrassed, heart broken, and doomed all at once. I think I would have fainted were it me.
The Queen skit was hilarious though, wasn't it?
I'm I alone in thinking Baby Jack bears an uncanny resemblence to Stewie in 'Family Guy?' He looks balefully at Sally as though plotting her painful demise ...
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