inferno week: day 2

Posted on November 10, 2010 by admin 1 Comment

YEAY! We’re still in flashback, pre-explosion zone…

superfertility strikes again

So, in the least surprising plot development ever (and one that we predicted weeks ago), underage shaggers Amber and Finn discovered they are going to be parents. Cue an icky scene where Finn suggested getting a paper round to support them and Amber accused hobbit boy of statutory rape. Can we just say how much we dislike Amber? There is something eerie about her, like she is an adult trapped in a child’s body. We hope she dies.

Which brings us to the happy news that she just might! As both kids scrambled up onto the roof to escape the inferno, Amber lost her grip and fell, leaving her hanging from the guttering like a whiney bat .

Whilst dialling 999 would have been helpful, Tony and Gabby reacted to the catastrophe unfolding before them with a mixture of anguished hand clasping and pointing:

Of course, the most the terrifying moment of the whole episode was when 12 year old Amber briefly metamorphisised into a haggard adult woman:

The horror.

domolished

After being thoroughly bitchslapped by Brendan in yesterday’s episode, Dom continued on his tour of humiliating encounters with gangsters by meeting Warren for a potential  loan. Dom, a word of advice: accepting money from a supposedly dead crim is not the best business decision. Nevertheless, he persevered in what turned out to be a genuinely odd scene where Warren indulged in some half arsed psychoanalysis (“Is this about saving a business, or you trying to prove yourself to your brother?”) and Dom wept.

Is it just us, or are Warren’s leering whispery threats  a bit 2009? We like our villains to be more tactile (read: face grabby) and hairier these days. Also, did we hear right when Warren said he’d lost his memory? Ah yes, that old chestnut.

Anyhoo, as it turned out Warren wasn’t going to lend the money to Dom (Mandy’s bizarre sex face must have done the trick and convinced him otherwise) but he did suggest that Dom torch Il Gnosh.

Now, Dom as a firestarter suspect:

Case for: a botched insurance job that accidentally kills half the village has Dom’s name written all over it.

Case against: he hasn’t done anything interesting since 2008, so why start now?

some other potential firestarters:

In addition to Dom and the other suspects we mentioned last week, we’ve spied some more:

Mandy: shiftier than a badger’s uncle, she is out to get Tony and heard him yelling about four arson-friendly gas cylinders lying about in Il Gnosh. Hell hath no fury like a harbinger scorned, but would she go that far? Let’s face it, she’s a bit of a wet blanket isn’t she? Then again, she hasn’t been added to the opening sequence like Warren, suggesting her stay in the village could be a short one. Could she be destined for jail? Or a life on the run?

Leanne: Lee’s jilted stoat faced bride did not take to kindly to being dumped for Amy. Could have known that Amy was babysitting upstairs, but burning her love rival to death  might be a slight overreaction?

Hutch v Hutch

There was some excellent brow furrowing demonstrated by both Hutchinsons. We recks Tony still has the edge though:

That said, as @Gemba247 pointed out, Dom has his own unique facial weirdness going on  in the form of one eyed blinking. Keep an eye out for it, etc.

sadface times

Even we were moved when Steph confessed to her fear of dying and lamented on the lack of achievements in her short life. Love, it could it worse, you could be Dom – or worse yet, Anita. Anyway, if all the boo hooing wasn’t signposting a spectacular (if fiery) hero’s death for her then we’ll eat our fake Brendan moustache.

So, Amber’s life literally hangs in the balance, Amy is still at death’s door in the living room and the list of  suspects is increasing by the hour. Cannot wait for Day 3 – BRING IT DA FUCK ON!