It’s still all about Ruby in our Emmerdale review this week, though now lots of other people have got involved in her heartbreaking story which is a bit distracting and slightly annoying.
But overall there was a lot to love in this week’s Emmerdale. Here’s what we thought in our Emmerdale review.
Ruby continues to be brilliant
Yes, the focus wasn’t always on Ruby this week but we still think she’s absolutely brilliant and a fabulous addition to Emmerdale. We love when characters are allowed to settle into a soap before they’re given a huge storyline. Us getting to know Ruby before this bombshell landed really paid off while Ella’s story never really hit the spot.
Cain and Ruby is a complication too far
But saying all that, we still really wish the Cain and Ruby thing hadn’t happened. It’s just an additional complication this storyline doesn’t need.
Ruby being abused by her dad would have been enough. Now there’s the fact of him being Steph’s dad. AND his mysterious death in the mix, too. Cain and Ruby seemed unnecessary at the time and now seems even more of a blind alley.
Laurel and Nicola is a bit weird
Anyway, now Anthony’s dead, and Laurel and Nicola are agonising over whether they played a part in his disappearance.
Nicola even made the effort to go to a random ward in Hotton General and ask questions – most people would have just given them a ring, Nico. And then what do you know? Steph went to the SAME hospital and asked the same questions of the same nurse. What are the chances, eh? That nurse clearly isn’t working hard enough if she’s got time to hang around and wait to be asked questions about old men.
But we digress. Laurel and Nicola’s part in the Anthony death drama is a bit odd and feels slightly stuck on. They’re flailing round the village panicking about going to prison and it feels like a distraction. But we did laugh when Laurel said Nicola would handle prison better than she would. She’s right!
Emmerdale review: Caleb’s useless
Caleb continues to be the worst husband, having made the whole thing about himself and left poor Ruby at home, desperately worried about Steph. Caleb played a weird game of Russian roulette with Anthony, trying to get him to confess – even though he knew the whole story from Ruby. And then the gun went off, and Anthony scarpered.
Slow hand clap, Caleb.
But Aaron had us in bits
We love when we get a glimpse of vulnerable Aaron and his confrontation with Anthony was so good but very grim. Also, can we just point out that Aaron – Ruby’s neighbour – had clocked how she acted round her dad but her actual husband and daughter had not. Tsk.
Anyway, Aaron forcing the truth from Anthony was a hard watch. Aaron was clearly reliving his own trauma. While Anthony revealed his true, awful, despicable colours alternating between sickening self pity, and disgusting bravado. Nicholas Day – who plays the evil abuser – has done SUCH a good job of creating a monster. What a fabulous actor he is.
And then Aaron pummelled Anthony to a pulp. We weren’t even sorry.
But did he kill him?
Emmerdale review: We don’t think Aaron did it
We are pretty sure Aaron is not the killer. (Mind you, we were absolutely sure that Nate had been killed in the barn fire so we’re not always right!)
Obviously, Aaron thinks he’s the killer and we’re supposed to think he’s the killer, but is he, though? We’re not sure.
Ruby was making some fairly suspicious faces when anyone mentioned her dad – though that could just be her worries about Steph.
And speaking of Steph, could she have been the one to kill Anthony? What if she overheard his grim confession to Aaron? Her desperate hunt for him makes a lot of sense if she came back to deal with the body only to find it gone!
Or maybe it was Jai. Yes of course that’s ridiculous, but he’s got a dark side! And he needs something to do…
We’re still intrigued by John in our Emmerdale review
Speaking of dealing with dead bodies, how calm was John when confronted by Aaron’s dastardly deed? He simply picked up his keys and headed off to sort it out.
We don’t care how many years he spent in the army – surely no one with a normal backstory is that chill about getting rid of a corpse? There’s definitely a lot we don’t know about Mr Sugden. Could he even have killed Anthony himself? What if he’s the latest Dales serial killer?!
WHAT is wrong with Joe?
Another intrigue this week is Joe’s extreme health issues. Does he need something from Noah? A kidney? Bone marrow? Something else?! Or is he really an addict like Dawn thinks?
Anyway we want to know what he’s up to and we are not the only ones because…
KIM IS BACK!
Of course she is! Grieving or not, we KNEW Kim wouldn’t be taking any nonsense from Mr Tate. She’s only gone and bugged his room! Now she knows he’s up to something. And she is surely about to twig what all those slurping noises were as he and Dawn snogged the faces of each other.
But who’s Joe talking to? What did he mean when he said the thing he didn’t want to happen had happened? Did he mean Dawn finding him out cold? And why doesn’t he want anyone to know he’s ill? We’re desperate to know more!
Emmerdale usually airs weeknights on ITV at 7.30pm, with an early release on ITVX at 7am.
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