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Poor Marlene, having problems with a wedding dress a size too small, reminding me of Doreen - who also had a wedding on the inside, and had a wedding dress too small. Loved all the little scenes of Marlene trying desperately to sneak choccy biccies and other goodies, getting more and more devious each time. The Scooby Doo music was a bit of an unexpected touch during the midnight feast scene, though.
Despite the women promising to help and encourage her, there were a few unpleasant and discouraging comments. And Anita insisting on reading "The Elephant Man" in front of her probably did no good either.
Loved the dream sequence, with Marlene disguised as a drag queen, when her wedding dress started mysteriously tearing and falling apart. If there's one thing Prisoner is always fabulous for, it's dream sequences and disco scenes.
"I've caused some people a lot of grief" said Marlene to Anita, but I'm not sure if her conversion to "catholisissism" would sort that out.
Actually, the actress playing Anita seems to be very good. The scene with her and Joan was very well acted by both women. It was a shame I couldn't help feel it was a bit out of place somehow at that time. I liked the idea of Anita's real crime being the sin of "pride". Quite an interesting touch.
More scenes with dear old "Meggiepops" and Ettie (dear) who seemed to have developed a habit of saying "..as your dear old mother used to say" at the end of every line. And I couldn't help but wonder how all those begging phone callers could have got hold of a prison officer’s private home number. Worrying.
Loved the scene with Jan screaming the cell down and clawing at the wall, leaving blood all over it. Wickedly grim. At last she did something interesting.
Strange slap that Myra gave to Lexie - it seemed to happen without involving Myra's hand at all. The strange thing with Lexie being in the dog house, is how it seemed to be completely forgotten five minutes later, when she was laughing and joking along with all the others in the laundry.
Interesting to see Myra and Geoff both walking into the toilet block together. Not sure what they were up to, apart from using the facilities at the same times.. yeuch. "This place isn't exactly made for romance," said Geoff. Turns out they'd sneaked into the toilets for a spot of forbidden passion. Interesting. Over here we call that cottaging.
Wonderful line from Myra to Geoff: "A handsome man like you.. you'll have the women falling at your feet." Now what was he inside for..? Oh yes, murdering his wife.
Lexie was back with the enormous helicopter type gold bow in her hair, looking like an ice cream where someone has stuck in a fan wafer. Now, I didn't think Lexie's acting was bad at all, but when Joan threw her against the corridor wall, there was definitely a loud hollow wooden clonk. I really liked the later scene, with Joan cutting off Lexie's Boy George locks and washing her make-up off. I thought that was handled very well by both actresses, and was quite disturbing. However, looking back I couldn't help but wonder if the actress had decided to change to a new short hairdo, and the writers had conveniently written this into the script, to explain the change. It didn't seem to have much relevance to the general scheme of things. But it was at least reassuring to notice that immediately after her shearing by Joan, her lop-sided and messy mop, was miraculously transformed into a stylish and beautifully coiffeured style by the next morning. And there wasn't even Bea around to do it for her.
Poor Jan, obviously the hospital had got so fed up with her constant falling over and rolling on the floor, that they decided to strap her to the bed. Not sure how secure those straps would be though, it looked as though she could release her hands by, er, pulling them back a couple of inches.
The poor mysterious pink thing hanging between the dryers in the laundry, was not only demoted to the far end of the rail, but it was well and truly upstaged by a lime green thing this episode. The way things are going it won't be long before it ends up in Ramsey Street.
Inspector Grace was even more convinced about Dennis' guilt, now that more of the conclusive evidence was discovered when they looked at the car. Some smudged fingerprints that might (or might not) belong to the second victim.. a library ticket from a nearby town where one of the victims had come from.. a pair of tights down the back of a seat.. some perfume "the type a young girl might wear".. his being separated from his wife.. his ex girlfriend going away.. well well well, it's quite clear he's the serial killer then.
Marlene was again given today's slab of pathos, with her tug-at-the-heartstrings letter to the parents of the man whose death she was responsible for, basically saying "I know I killed your son, but I'm changed now, so please forgive me." Poor Anita, reduced to tears, hopefully of sadness, not of pity for the poor actress forced to deliver this stuff. And I couldn't help but laugh when Matt called upon Marlene, and knocked before entering. As the door was open and out of his grasp, I can only guess he knocked on the brickwork. Strange how it sounded hollow and didn't make his hand bleed.
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