Why did Moira change her mind, why won’t Marlon stop shouting and who WAS Amy? We’ve got a lot of questions about this week’s Emmerdale
We need answers!
This week’s Emmerdale review is basically just a list of questions. We’ve been left scratching our heads a bit after the week’s episodes. In fact, we’d say they’ve totally left us with more questions than we had at the start of the week.
It was a busy week in Emmerdale with two of the three funerals for the women who died in the limo crash. And those funerals were at the exact same time, which is the first of our many questions we’ve got this week.
Here is our long list of ‘Whhhhyyyy?’ in this week’s Emmerdale review.
Emmerdale review: What is Marlon thinking?
Since April first ran away we’ve had a lot of questions about the way Marlon’s dealing with this whole thing. And never more than this week where he appears to have completely lost his marbles. He’s sleeping by the front door, he’s shouting, he’s absolutely not listening to anything April says.
We’re not sure that April’s life at home before she ran away was so bad that scratching an existence on the streets was a better option. But we’re starting to think it might be now.
And then there’s Dylan. Despite the fact that April has told Marlon and Ross 50 million times that Dylan helped her, they are treating him like scum. He’s a vulnerable teen – just like April. Why is no one helping him?
Marlon was sort of right when he told April it was too much for her to be helping Dylan through his recovery but the solution there would have been to get some proper help for Dylan. Maybe he could have had a word with Manpreet, perhaps. Rather than just shouting at April. Again.
WHY the change of heart, Moira?
We have a lot of questions about this too. So. Many. Questions. Obviously the main one for weeks has been why Cain slept with Ruby in the first place.
But this week we are BAFFLED by Moira’s super-quick turnaround. Why did Moira suddenly change her mind? We’ve got whiplash from that U-turn.
Emmerdale review: Tracy’s a thief!
How on earth did Tracy manage to nick two grand from Eric?! Why hasn’t he noticed given his precarious financial situation? Why didn’t she go to Cain for help, or Vanessa? Or even Eric! Tracy’s better than this.
What was Manpreet thinking?
We’re glad Manpreet’s getting a story. But sexy pics, Manpreet? Really?
We are quite interested in who her blackmailer is though.
Leyla’s fabulous send-off
Leyla’s funeral was perfect. We loved how she’d written her own eulogy. We loved the gold coffin, and the pallbearers and the music choices. We really, really loved the fortune cookies. What a great touch. But it was a bit odd that it was in church – somewhere we’re not sure Leyla had ever been!
And it was really odd that it was at the same time as Amy’s funeral. Poor Eric had to choose between two women he’d genuinely loved. And of course he had to choose Leyla’s because he needed to support his grandson Jacob (do NOT get us started on how Jacob has been abandoned by the rest of his family just when he needs them the most) but it can’t have been easy for him.
Amy’s nature-based, animal loving funeral
Speaking of which, Amy’s funeral was… odd. Because it turns out we didn’t know much about Amy. At least, we didn’t before she died. But apparently she loved nature and walks in the woods, she loved animals, and she had a friend in Belfast who died.
We didn’t see any of that of course, when she was alive, but we know now because Matty told us at the funeral. Which is making us think that Amy was very underused on screen, and also that – whisper this – we won’t really miss her.
Emmerdale review: Who was Suzy?
In fact, we feel a similar way about Suzy and Vanessa. We hardly saw them together when Suzy was alive. We saw much more of Suzy and Mary’s growing friendship when Vanessa was away. So all the stuff Vanessa’s now telling us about how she was planning to propose and they were going to go to New York, and the details of their relationship are new to us.
We’re not over the limo drama
Just to round off this week’s Emmerdale review, we want to say that we’re still reeling from the drama of Valentine’s Day.
We’re still a bit annoyed that THREE young women were killed in the limo crash. We still think Emmerdale feels unbalanced and too male. We are really, really going to miss Leyla who was just the most fabulous character.
And most of all we are DESPERATE for Matty to remember what Amy told him about seeing Nate’s body in the lake. Yes, we know he’s had a lot on. But come on, Matty! Get that grey matter working!
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.
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