In the latest instalment of the school drama, Dynasty’s world is turned upside down with the arrival of her criminal ex-boyfriend, but the rouble is she has eyes for some else. Elsewhere Audrey fights to keep her job, Lorraine forces Maggie to come back to work and Tom makes a life-changing decision of his own.
The one thing I’m not a fan of in terms of Waterloo Road is that some storylines are instantly forgotten about once they’ve happened. For example last week’s plot involving Fergal and his mother Theresa wasn’t even mentioned in this instalment while Maggie didn’t seem to miss her new kitchen assistant. That may be because Maggie has other things on her mind what with Grantly’s kidney failure and the fact that she now has to prepare a pitch to Lorraine in order to keep her catering tender at the school.
In this instalment of the school drama – Maggie’s patience is tested as Rhiannon goes off the rails, Barry bullies Connor into a dodgy deal and Sonya sets about hiring a new handyman.
It does seem like quite a while ago since Waterloo Road moved from Rochdale to Greenock in Scotland. But in fact we’ve only had two terms in the new school and it already seems like a lot has changed. Plenty of staff members and students have arrived and departed while plenty of relationships have developed and cooled off. But some things never change, and this opening episode of the summer term run is no exception as it centres around a new bad boy pupil with a shady past.
Waterloo Road returns tonight for the final term of the new series. In this first episode back we are introduced to new by Fergal who makes enemies with Lula after he tempts Harley to behave dangerously out of character. Meanwhile Lorraine has a surprise announcement to make and Grantly is struggling to keep his illness under wraps.
On tonight’s episode of Waterloo Road star student Scout is supposed to be working on her exams and studying for the important upcoming tests, however her time it divided between her schoolwork and looking after her ill mother Tina. It all gets too much to deal with and getting increasingly desperate Scout tries to steal the school nurse’s prescription pad but her theft does not go undetected. Michael gets wind of her criminal act and threatens to expel her .
On the day of the inter-school football final, Michael bans Tom from playing Kacey after it is discovered that it is against the rules to have a girl on the team. The snub forces Kacey to face up to her identity issues. Tom goes against Michael’s demands and tell Kacey that if she pretends to be a boy, she can play. Kacey wins the match nearly single-handedly, but when friend Zoe plants a victory kiss on her, disgusted Barry becomes outraged, revealing that Kacey is a girl and jeopardising the team’s win.
Waterloo Road is nearing the end of it’s series and in the 17th of 20 episode this evening, emotions are running high amongst staff and pupils.
Maggie is upset when she finds out that Jade is planning to put her baby up for adoption; the PRU pupils prepare to show their mettle to the school and an anxious Sian; and Connor is surprised when he finds a pregnancy testing kit.
On tonight’s Waterloo Road Christine suffers a set back and is shocked by the surprise arrival of her ex husband Joe, who demands to speak to her about the contents of his father’s will. He also expresses an interest in getting to know his own son Connor, who he has never before made contact with, leaving Christine worried and stressed about the implications.
Actress Zoe Lucker has of course appeared in a number of TV shows, including EastEnders, Footballers’ Wives and Waterloo Road, and almost invariably, she plays the role of a gutsy, feisty woman…
However, in an interview with the Mirror, Zoe has revealed that in real life, she’s a far cry from the bold characters she portrays, and is in fact often crippled by anxiety.
She said, “I get nervous and panicky about absolutely everything. Generally I am a nervous wreck.
“I hate things like busy shopping centres and I love a country pub during the day but the thought of going into a crowded bar fills me with dread.”
Zoe added, “One of the bravest things I ever did was take part in Strictly Come Dancing and I stayed in it for eight weeks… Read more & comment »
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Now that the Live episode is out of the way, Emmerdale is treating us to some new arrivals!
In a bid to inject some fresh life following the tragedy and consequences of the epic anniversary week, Emmerdale is to introduce four new characters to the village.
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In my review of the last episode of Waterloo Road I hoped that tonight’s final part of the run would concentrate more on Christine’s alcoholism than it did on Michael’s agreement to help his father to die. Thankfully my wishes were fulfilled as this end of term episode focused on Connor’s attempts to leave his mother behind and further his relationship with Imogen however as we see Christine isn’t easily fooled.
I can’t believe that the first term at the brand new Waterloo Road school is almost at an end and it’s fair to say that the reception to the new surroundings has been fairly mixed.
Though we’ve seen episodes focusing on a lot of the new pupils, someone who hasn’t been given that much time to develop is Rhiannon, a character who has mainly existed to cause trouble for Scout.
Over the last two weeks we’ve seen some fairly big names leave Waterloo Road and tonight another character leaves the school for good.
To counteract this departure, two new characters are introduced tonight to make up the numbers and hopefully stick around for a while before they inexplicably leave midway through term. We are led to believe that our first new character, Morag Murray, has been at the school since the beginning of the term although we are only meeting properly for the first time in this episode. We see that she lives in a shack in the middle of nowhere along with her brother and father the latter of whom is a freegan meaning that he is opposed to society controlled by consumerism.
If there’s one thing you can’t accuse Waterloo Road it’s moving at a slow pace as with at least half a dozen stories covered in each episode I feel it’s fairly hard to be bored while watching it. Last week’s episode was built around the much publicised exit of Chelsee Healey’s Janeece so I thought this instalment would at least pass by without any major events but how wrong I was. Tonight we finally saw Madi’s story explained in more detail while we also had a wedding and the somewhat shocking exit of another established character.
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