I will add to the ‘disappointing’ reaction.
If I hadn’t read a précis of it in my TV guide, I wouldn’t have twigged half of what went on.
The creepy bit with Ian ‘stalking’ the girl in the gym? Was he associating her with his adopted daughter? The visit to the cemetery, that must have been a daughter who died, but I thought at first it was his deceased mum’s grave they were going to.
The bloke who hid upstairs, I assume was Emma’s brother, as he called James Bolam ‘dad’. But who was ‘Nicholas’ who they said they were going to visit, which sounded like an excuse to get away?
As for the excruciating meal with the new controlling boyfriend, what were they eating? Looked like Ian finally got his jacket potato, and the tomato ketchup was thankfully in evidence, but would you eat that with salad? The whole meal looked like a scene from Corrie, at Jack and Vera Duckworths.
And do you come home from a Spanish holiday, and are soon lolling on the sofa? I am opening windows, getting the suitcases unpacked, going through the post (thoroughly), not casually rifling through it and chucking it in the recycling.
There are 4 parts to it, I assume it will pick up, but at the moment, to me it’s definitely on a par with the ghastly ‘Mum’.