Charlene! Scott! Margot Robbie in what looks like a toilet! This upbeat, celeb-packed finale was a truly fitting celebration of not just the end of a TV show – but the end of an era
, with almost four decades of variations of the famous golden typography edited into one, it would not be hyperbole to suggest that it feels like watching your life flash before your eyes. Ramsay Street may be in a fictional suburb on the other side of the world from the UK, but from the start of this nostalgia-filled finale, it’s clear that producers – and viewers – are well aware that this is more than simply the end of a television show. More an era.
We begin as we close, with Susan Kennedy looking tearful as she surveys the street. For sale signs loom over every corner of the cul de sac, with many of the residents planning to leave. Paul Robinson is set to sell his beloved Lassiters hotel complex and move to New York. Even Toadie Rebecchi is selling up after 25 years. It is Toadfish’s wedding to Melanie Pearson that is the crux of the final episode, ushering in a celebratory mood and most importantly, an excuse for old faces to return.
says hi on FaceTime, filming from what appears to be her toilet. Guy Pearce looks to be having the time of his life returning as Mike Young, creating a moving reunion with high-school lost love Plain Jane Super Brain . No appearance is more anticipated, though, than that of Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan. While brief, the novelty of seeing the two of them as 1980s love birds Charlene and Scott once again does not disappoint.
Any soap ending feels strangely unnatural. Continuing drama is, by its definition, continual. While other shows come into our lives for a few weeks, soaps are with us day in day out through our childhoods, university days, to adulthood. After 37 years, the creators of Neighbours could claim its demise will be particularly keenly felt. They would not be wrong.
still pulling in 1.5 million viewers on Channel 5 when it was axed and despite never being able to reach the halcyon days of the 80s-90s, was still producing
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