They’re playing the autistic kid card, with Scott’s little brother, Jude, possessed by a vengeful spirit. The back-story is a bit confusing and doesn’t matter much (a recurrence this series), and we’re encouraged instead to focus on the themes of family and abandonment the storyline evokes. When Scott considers putting Jude into care after an unfortunate incident with an electric heater in the bath, for example, it’s heavily implied that Ellie herself was put in care when she was younger. It’s a comment that just hangs there without explanation, but maybe it’ll come up again later. Something I predicted last week was the relationship between Dan and Warren, and it turns out my hunch was right. I suppose the writers thought their audience wouldn’t figure it out due to Dan’s mixed-race heritage, but he is indeed Warren’s son, which at least goes some way to explaining the weird behaviour. What doesn’t make any sense is why he was so conniving in getting the revelation. Obviously it’s allowed us to theorise about something, but why get a job in your biological father’s hotel just to torture him? Why not just confront him, or take him to see Jeremy Kyle? The other ongoing story is the tedious love triangle developing between Ellie, Max and Dan, which takes a turn for the soap opera this week with Ellie’s pregnancy. She claims it’s Dan’s child, which I thought only happened a couple of days ago, but am I the only one who thinks it could be her fiancé’s? I always expected him to come back into the picture, but it doesn’t seem to be the case. The fact that she’s pregnant at all just erases my praise from last week; can’t a female character engage in casual sex without some horrible consequence? I’m betting they’re preparing to go one better next week and have it be some kind of demon child (or Eve?). As I said last week, the last two episodes of series two are likely to be an improvement, but the ingredients for a good series were there from the start, they just haven’t been used so far. Read our review of last week’s episode, here. Follow our Twitter feed for faster news and bad jokes right here. And be our Facebook chum here.
