This series is frequently outrageous, so when odd things occur, it's not surprising. Those awful teenaged girls are always around to make some caustic comment at the wort times. Do they ever do anything but walk around town. At issue here are two principle things, perhaps three. First of all, Joe (the absolute idiot police officer) is visited by his ex-wife, but he is so elated, he ignores the fact that she doesn't know they were divorced three years earlier. She doesn't even remember a man she was engaged to. Then we have Burt realizing that the restaurant is in deep trouble. He hides this from son Al who is working for Aunt Ruth now, nearly full time. Where will he get the money to stay afloat? Martin is being about as difficult as it is possible when it relates to Louisa and the baby. We also are made privy to her mother's motivations. I fear some hard times ahead, especially for Burt. Some of this is really hard to swallow, especially the amnesia thing, but it is still quite captivating.
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A bit better than normal.
planktonrules30 April 2015
This episode provides even more evidence that Police Constable Penhale is a pathetic loser. This is because his ex-wife suddenly appears in town and she has no recollection of the last three years...and she thinks she's still married to Joe! As she left him, Joe is very happy to allow her to live a lie--and he realizes something's wrong with her but is too happy getting her back to care!
In addition to this amazingly impossible plot, there is a guy who is friends with Eleanor and he's got SOMETHING wrong with him. As the IMDb summary says he has Addison's Disease, then there isn't a lot of suspense--though what his relationship is to her is a bit of one. Additionally, Bert Large proves to be a bit of a dummy, as he's having financial problems and decides to borrow money from a loan shark! He hides this from his son, Al, who has begun working full-time for Aunt Ruth.
Overall, this is a very interesting episode--perhaps a bit better than usual. While I will admit that the plot involving Joe's wife is hard to believe, it is interesting--and so are the other stories in the episode.
In addition to this amazingly impossible plot, there is a guy who is friends with Eleanor and he's got SOMETHING wrong with him. As the IMDb summary says he has Addison's Disease, then there isn't a lot of suspense--though what his relationship is to her is a bit of one. Additionally, Bert Large proves to be a bit of a dummy, as he's having financial problems and decides to borrow money from a loan shark! He hides this from his son, Al, who has begun working full-time for Aunt Ruth.
Overall, this is a very interesting episode--perhaps a bit better than usual. While I will admit that the plot involving Joe's wife is hard to believe, it is interesting--and so are the other stories in the episode.
Poor PC Penhale
gary-646598 April 2020
Poor Penhale is put upon once again. He is the one with the emotional problems -- which at no point in the series are taken account of, even by medial stickler Doc Martin -- no doubt exacerbated by his wife's dumping of him. And yet here he is the one accused of "taking advantage" of his ex-wife who dumped him for an exciting life three years before. Now she turns up on his doorstep after being dumped herself. Enjoying emotional togetherness for 24 hours -- not physical, she is the one trying to thrust herself on him -- Penhale probably would have been pooh-poohed by Martin if Penhale had presented him with the problem anyway. No One is more pathetic that Doc Martin is this field, and so he too accuses Penhale of "taking advantage" of an ill woman (who suffers migraines). Louisa is the only one of this hopeless town who detects "romance" in Penhale's soul.
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