Neighbours [News, Spoilers and Discussion]

I agree about the flash backs, probably could have done with them in the first couple of weeks to explain what happened regarding Toadie, Mel and Terese. I think tbf it have improved a little over the last 2-3 weeks.

I think it's okay, but it's not Neighbours.

The accidental death trope is a bit too obvious. And it's almost certain that Krista isn't really dead at all, right? It reminds me a bit of those tv movies they had on Channel 5 after Neighbours right now.

Paul having done something nefarious is good, but the way they've tied it in with Terese and Paul splitting means Terese is going to look even more silly going back to him again now which I assume will happen. Why did he leave her at the altar, that was so unnecessary.

It's so different to how it used to be. One of the reasons people liked Neighbours is it was funny and light-hearted compared to the other soaps, you can't say that about how it's been recently. So I'm a bit afraid for its future.

Has been a bit ridiculous how all the flash back stories tied in with one another and now bringing back some of the old characters again; Mel, Chloe, David, Aaron & Nicolette etc, should have just had them all back from the start, at least Reece is gone, absolutely terrible character and desperate acting from Mischa Barton. Maybe with the return of the older characters it might improve, but, hasn't been great so far

I can't see it lasting too long tbh, they really got off on the wrong foot with the Toadie and Therese wedding and hasn't really recovered, the whole flash back storyline was ridiculous.

On another note I think Chloe would have been perfect as Barbie!

Couldn't agree more.. trying way too hard with the facial expressions..

Why was it inappropriate? Andrew was in his uniform, but he was definitely speaking as Toadie’s friend. They seemed to get very close in the missing two years. Toadie mightn’t still love Melanie but she still loves him, just like Therese still loves Paul.

Link didn't come out somehow:

Neighbours on X: "How good is it to have Chloe back?! It's time for some revelations from April. ❤️ https://t.co/z6ZD7gC8vV" / X (twitter.com)

edit: oh it's somehow there again now.

She was in Home and away about 15 years ago, think she was Alf's granddaughter, so it might actually be the same person you're thinking of. She's had some work done, so looks slightly different than she did when in Home and Away, plus has gotten older!

Martha in Home and Away

I think Neighbours has been dreadful the last few weeks, since it came back it hasn't been great, it improved slightly for a few weeks, but, has been dreadful again the last few weeks, nothing really interesting happening and now another wedding🙄, Neighbours ended with a wedding, restarted with a wedding and just a few months later another wedding and one planned in the space of a week! Surely the writers can come up with something more original. At the moment there isn't really much happening.

I don't think they work as a couple, they look very awkward together.

Was thinking the same about Chloe and new Nicolette, they look more natural together, weren't Chloe and old Nicolette a couple?

Krista and Leo will get together and they'll probably pretend Leo is the father to keep Eden out of the picture

Paul and Terese should get back together- they don't really work as well apart

Toadie and Mel should get back together too - there's no point in Mel being around if she doesn't get back with Toadie.

A lot of mismatched couples at the moment which is probably why the show isn't working and feels so disjointed.

I always preferred Therese with Paul, out of any of her partners they were the best match.

Today was a good example where Sadie and her mom suddenly now have a storyline with Sadie wanting to be a makeup artist and Wendy determined to force her to university. Where's the background, where's the buildup? I thought Wendy as a character was doing okay for a while but now she's really starting to annoy me again. Her applying for her daughter without her permission was just ridiculous.

According to Flixpatrol (which isn't an official source and could be inaccurate) it's number 1 in UK Freevee every week and number 4 worldwide (obviously the majority of those viewers are from the uk):

https://flixpatrol.com/title/neighbours/

https://flixpatrol.com/top10/

This might also include old episodes, as they apparently do it by calculating how often it's shown in Amazon Freevee's top 10 shows. I would imagine a lot of people are responding to how it was almost cancelled for good and are making sure to have it on Freevee (it's on Prime here but episodes are only available week behind RTE). If it gets through this rough patch then hopefully they can fix the mess and make it really good again.

New neighbours is pretty poor, very disjointed and rushed storylines, so will be interesting to see how long it lasts. Would agree that Home and Away has generally been the better programme in the last decade or so, but, I think it too has been poor in the last year or two, seems to be a huge turnover of characters and everyone either ends up in hospital or arrested or both! They keep constantly rehashing the corrupt cops storylines, every cop that has come to Summer Bay ends up either being dodgy, having a dodgy love interest or is on the end of police corruption. IMO it has definitely gone downhill recently.