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Luke Roberts as Joseph Byrne and Patsy Kensit Healy as Faye Byrne in Holby City
  • Posted at 4:35pm
  • 11 June 2009
  • by DavidButcher-RT
  • 4 comments

No-one expects a soap wedding to be a fun occasion, least of all in Holby City, but TV's most dismal medics excelled themselves when they celebrated - no, that's not the right word, so let's say marked - the marriage of Faye and Joseph.

It was a rivetingly joyless affair. An air of gloom seemed to hang over proceedings like a damp duvet. Stilted conversations, broken glasses, unfunny speeches - it had it all.

Grim-faced groom Joseph (Luke Roberts) was determined not to be late - and who can blame him: Faye already has quite enough late husbands. Three, if you're counting, and there's a suspicion she bumped two off herself. For God's sake, don't get her angry, Joseph; you won't like her when she's angry.

That's assuming you could tell. Playing Faye, Patsy Kensit Healy was as blank a page as ever, her features forever concealing whatever complex interior world Faye has, like one of those Japanese masks. Now and then you sensed a hint of emotion - when she was snogging the best man, say - but it was hard to be sure.

Meanwhile, the wonderful Jac, who had her own designs on Joseph, stayed away. "I'd rather be up to my neck in sewage than be at that wedding," she observed, touchingly. So instead she spent the day welcoming young medical students to Darwin ward with all the warmth and good cheer of a snow leopard who has just seen a particularly tasty mountain goat slip out of its clutches.

At the end of the episode she finally cracked. "I threw it all away," she quavered tragically to Mark, whereupon a montage of various Holby characters looking dejected and a Damien Rice song about floating like a cannonball wafted us out on a tide of nuptial joy.

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  • Posted on 04 August 2009
  • at 9:14pm
  • by Sandra

I have just finished watching tonights episode of Holby City and I am shocked at what I have seen. Donna should not have been anywhere her father on the ward or watching the operation. This gives a bad veiw of hospitals.As a nurse I know the implications of nursing relatives and have had to move wards in the past due to this. Also Donna and her collegue went to do a wound dressing, they did not wash their hands before applying gloves. left the door open with the patient completely exposed and talked about personal concerns over the top of the patient. I feel that this gives a bad impression of us nurses who are supposed to be in the caring profession.

  • Posted on 14 July 2009
  • at 9:03pm
  • by James

Which IDIOT decided we needed "music" (tuneless garbage rendered by people who CANNOT SING in most cases) to accompany certain scenes in this programme??

  • Posted on 16 June 2009
  • at 11:09am
  • by Barbette

If you're going to make a comment then follow your own advice; it's AEU - accident and emergency. In any case the acting is all we've come to expect from Holby and the storylines are convoluted - just the way we like them!

  • Posted on 13 June 2009
  • at 7:41pm
  • by Danny

It was AAU not Darwin ward, so if you're going to take the Mick out of something, make sure you get it right yourself!

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