ITV Share By Kerry Barrett Mar 22 2025 By Kerry Barrett Mar 22 2025 Joe needs a kidney, Chas has overdosed and Manpreet’s doing dodgy blood tests: it’s been a medical week in Emmerdale! Emmerdale has taught us a lot over the years. To stay away from barns, mostly. Not to mention viaducts, lakes, woods, and limos . And this... Chas Dingle Joe Tate Share By Kerry Barrett Mar 22 2025 By Kerry Barrett Mar 22 2025 Emmerdale has taught us a lot over the years. To stay away from barns, mostly. Not to mention viaducts, lakes, woods, and limos . And this week’s Emmerdale review is no different. But this week, it’s taught us a lot of medical stuff. We’ve watched our fair share of Casualty, Holby and Grey’s Anatomy and we’re pretty sure we’re virtually fully qualified doctors now – and this week’s Emmerdale has just topped up our knowledge of illness, drugs and, erm, illegal organ transplants. Here’s everything we learned in this week’s Emmerdale review. “Hello, is that the kidney shop? Yes I’d like to buy one Tate kidney please. Quick as you can…” (Credit: ITV) Joe needs a kidney! So it turns out Joe’s got chronic kidney disease article continues below Read all the latest spoilers , he’s getting sicker by the day, and he desperately needs to find a donor. But is the answer to this to go via normal channels and get on the transplant waiting list? Of course not. It’s to sneak around, and plan to nick a kidney from the first relative who happens to walk past. We’re completely bewildered as to why this has been Joe’s plan all along, but we’re loving the drama of it all! We’re also a little bit obsessed with creepy Dr Crowley. He seems to just appear without anyone ever seeing him. Is he even real? Maybe this whole thing’s happening in Joe’s head?! Manpreet met her blackmailer, but it was all part of Joe’s kidney plot (Credit: ITV) Manpreet needs her head examined Then there’s Manpreet. First she made the questionable decision to plaster her saucy – and easily identifiable pictures all over the internet. Then she gave into to blackmail. And THEN she trusted Joe Tate to get her out of the tricky situation she found herself in. Except, unbeknownst to Manpreet, Joe was the one who was blackmailing her and now she owes him a favour. Which she’s now done – taking Caleb’s blood so Joe could get it tested. Manpreet seems to be in this up to her neck. All because she fancied getting her kit off for strangers online. There’s a lesson there. No one trusts Ella (Credit: ITV) Emmerdale’s Ella has been wasted in this week’s review We were excited about the arrival of Ella Forster mostly because we love actress Paula Lane, who plays the killer receptionist. But she’s never really lived up to expectations, has she? And now we’re really just marking time until she leaves the village again. It all feels a bit of a waste. This week’s episodes were quite Ella-heavy with everyone in the village convinced she’d been the one to switch Chas’s painkillers. Ella was adamant that while she did, indeed, nick her rival’s engagement ring, she didn’t cause Chas to overdose. No one believes her, and Ella herself reckons it was Chas who’s been popping too many pills. But we’ve got another idea… John saved Chas, but was he the one to harm her in the first place? (Credit: ITV) What if it’s John? John’s weirdly a bit obsessed with Chas. He’s desperate for her approval but he doesn’t seem to like her very much. He’s a medical man. He knows his way round a drug cabinet… We’re just saying he could have been the one to cause his future mother-in-law to overdose. And his odd behaviour isn’t doing anything to convince us we’re wrong about his potential involvement in Nate’s death, too. Fans are already speculating he could be the latest serial killer to stalk the Dales and we reckon they’re on to something. YES! Ross has something to do! (Credit: ITV/Composite: EI) We found Emmerdale’s Ross is on the case in our review FINALLY Ross has something to do now Kim’s appointed him head of security at Home Farm. We love Ross and we love his vendetta against Joe so we are definitely up for him being the one to expose his weird kidney plot. We also loved his fake posh accent and the way he said “Subaru”. More of that, please! Oh good, another bad boy (Credit: ITV) All the bad boys feature in this week’s Emmerdale review We’ve said this before but Emmerdale’s just a bit too male at the moment and the arrival of Kammy isn’t helping. While it’s good to see Sarah embracing her Dingle side, we’re really not sure there was any need for another bad boy in the village. We’ve got generations of bad lads now, with Kammy, Dylan, Mack, Ross, Aaron, Caleb, and Cain. It’s getting quite exhausting. Poor old PC Swirling never gets a day off. We’re hoping that new casting Bradley Riches will buck the trend. It’s not been announced who the actor will be playing or what his character will be like, but we’re crossing our fingers that he’s not yet another boy. Read more: Who’s leaving Emmerdale? All the cast exits, arrivals and returns Emmerdale usually airs weeknights on ITV at 7.30pm, with an early release on ITVX at 7am. Classic Emmerdale usually airs every weekday on ITV3 at 6am and 6.30am, plus 1.40pm and 2.10pm. What do you think of this week’s Emmerdale review? Visit our Facebook page @emmerdaleinsider for all the latest news, gossip and spoilers and let us know what you think! Share this: Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) Good to Know Share By Kerry Barrett Mar 22 2025 By Kerry Barrett Mar 22 2025
