Yesterday's EastEnders

So Paul Trueman is properly dead then? I was hoping they were going to keep it open, in a Dirty Den kind of way.

Eastenders has got so much better since they dropped the absurd pretence that Leslie Grantham is supposedly attractive to women and made him into the durty old man everyone really thinks he is. Did you hear Den say "its so vulgar having your photo in the paper" the other week?

Also there's a Den whodunnit coming up, apparently. Soap whodunnits are always great in a preposterous kind of way.

will anyone tell the difference?

I was terribly disappointed at Andy Hunters death, I was expecting him to be torn apart by Alfie or Patrick, but hey ho, can't have all the square murderers.

Gosh, I'm sad.

how did Den fake his dead pulse?

Andy's death was cool, especially the ruthless economy of it. Actually the Andy story was much more compelling than the Den storyline, I thought.

I was saying to my wife the other night that with the two new rent-a-thugs, the return of Den and the bloke of The Bill that 'enders now had way too many tough/bad guys in it. Good plan to get rid of two at once.

Rumour azzit Grant Mitchell may return later in the year.

um, xpost, some wrestling stuff, folding table gtting smashed or something

I thought the bit in the Vic with Ian playing the air guitar was quite sweet because it involved all the characters who've been there from the beginning. I can't believe I've been watching that programme for 20 years now.

I also can't believe that the best plotline they could come up with for their 20th anniversary was to kill Den again. I agree, Andy's death was much better.

And hey! The Ferreras aren't gone at all! There they were at the bar with no-one saying "where the bloody hell did you lot slope off to?"

I was quite stupidly impressed with them keeping Sharon's brief return quiet - I read quite a lot of trashy papers and magazines and didn't know about it. I should get out more.

I said that thing about Ian being like his twattish 20-years-ago self with Pauline and Dot and Den and that to my husband when it was on on Friday, like what accentmonkey said, and my husband said I was really sad. :(

Are there any gays in Eastenders at the moment? I like a good gay character.

The guy who plays the Moon brother that isn't Lee from the Office is gay in real life, but that's not what you meant, was it? Corrie has the best soap gay in Sean.

I can't help myself, my head is full of old soap plots - I'm therefore frequently baffled at the company some people keep in the soaps ("Why are you buying him a pint? He shagged your wife in 1992!"). It seems the characters have shorter memories (or are more forgiving) than me.

Tony and Simon were a top gay couple. Simon was totally over the top bad acting camp guy and Tony spent the whole time going "I'm not gay, give us a kiss Si."

Oh, and WTF is with Ronnie Ferrera? Has he got mumps?

According to teh beeb "The Banned was a pop group consisting of Ian Beale, Sharon Watts, Kelvin Carpenter and Eddie Henderson. In the show they performed a track called Something Outta Nothing. It was then released as a single."

Me too. When Den was bludgeoned I thought, wow, it's just like when Steve and Matthew did Saskia in. And cementing over the body. How Brookside!

The 'Lords of the Bling' lads had a scrap (can't remember the names) over the Ferraro girl.

That blonde girl who hangs around with the Ferraro's shouted at them a bit and then did one.

I'm sure I said it earlier in this thread, but it is always funny when anyone in a soap lays out the history of any house or character on the street/square/close. It always sounds just crazy.

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Tonight, we say goodbye to a Walford legend. 7:35pm on @BBCOne #EastEnders #RememberDot pic.twitter.com/miw1QLZsFu

— BBC EastEnders (@bbceastenders) December 12, 2022

[wipes away a tear]

Good to see Colin, Mary, Lofty and Ian.

I was expecting it to be cheesy and full of pomp, but I thought it was really good considering how it could have been otherwise... until they started comparing her to the Queen. It took me right out of it. Also, everybody standing up in the church felt like a Harry Hill TV Burp moment.

Yes that was a real clanger

Toe-curling, because it was nicely done until that point. Ian lurking in a bush was unexpected. They brought it back at the cemetery though, Jack throwing her cigarettes onto her coffin, Abide With Me seguing into the theme tune...

Rip Mick… a full Vera Lynn farewell complete with White Cliffs of Dover.

he'll be back, Harold Bishop/Dee Bliss style

We absolutely reckoned he's up for the full Harold Bishop reveal. Janine husbands should really stay away from cliffs.

The actress playing Lola is doing an incredible job.

Cindy reportedly returning from the grave in a few months, with Ian. How many of Ian's wives have tried to murder him? He doesn't bear a grudge.

Zoe's back and Max's back and it's all really enjoyable nonsense

Max! For some reason I thought he was dead.

Half of the UK commentary is like "he looks like Pat Butcher"

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— Mariska den Eelden 🇪🇺🇳🇱 (@eeldenden) January 25, 2026

He looks more like Bob Geldof to me.

Can someone please explain to me why Mark and Sam torched those cars? I was so dazzled by the amazing special effects that I obviously wasn't paying close attention to why they would do something so weird.