That was hard to watch. Everything in the episode was on point. The Carters thing at least broke up the sadness that needed to be the majority of the episode.
Everything was acted perfectly in my opinion. The Cokers and Ben were all very realistic and I found it pretty heartbreaking. At first I thought Les was off with his facial expressions as if he'd merely eaten a dodgy curry or something, but then at the end it made sense that he'd been holding it all in.
Now I feel even moreso that I wish they'd just given Ben & Paul a nice story. Ben goes through hell all the time, The Cokers are clearly constantly being punished too for some reason. Paul was a happy and vastly different character to most of the downtrodden and hardened people in the show. I would have preferred to see them actually give Ben and Paul a chance to run the business and have something uplifting for a change. I mean how much turmoil and tragedy can one fictional place actually have!!
Obviously with the actor leaving they had to do something but it's a shame maybe they didn't offer him anything long term before he decided to go.
Oh and I just remembered too. Was surprised when The Cokers returned from the hospital and the market people were waiting that Shrimpy didn't take his hat off out of respect!
Everything was acted perfectly in my opinion. The Cokers and Ben were all very realistic and I found it pretty heartbreaking. At first I thought Les was off with his facial expressions as if he'd merely eaten a dodgy curry or something, but then at the end it made sense that he'd been holding it all in.
Now I feel even moreso that I wish they'd just given Ben & Paul a nice story. Ben goes through hell all the time, The Cokers are clearly constantly being punished too for some reason. Paul was a happy and vastly different character to most of the downtrodden and hardened people in the show. I would have preferred to see them actually give Ben and Paul a chance to run the business and have something uplifting for a change. I mean how much turmoil and tragedy can one fictional place actually have!!
Obviously with the actor leaving they had to do something but it's a shame maybe they didn't offer him anything long term before he decided to go.
Oh and I just remembered too. Was surprised when The Cokers returned from the hospital and the market people were waiting that Shrimpy didn't take his hat off out of respect!
I actually really warmed to the guy. At first he seemed like he didn't have much purpose outside of being a love interest for Ben inbetween the Abi stuff but he's developed loads more recently as was said. They just brought up about his mum which could have turned into a longer term storyline too, so that makes no sense. As I said in my other post, considering how miserable the show can be and how often depressing and terrible things happen, it was a breath of fresh air Paul being a generally happy and nice character. They could have had a really interesting dynamic with him and Ben running the Cokers business but instead we have to go down the oh so predictable EE death and tragedy route. How annoying.
