![]() ![]() It’s determined to stay relevant and fresh without taking itself too seriously, evolving while remaining loyal to its past. Like last year’s 30th birthday documentary special and Damo’s near-death dream sequence, Shortland Street refuses to stand still. Last night’s episode shows how the once wonderfully awkward soap has transformed over time into a glossy series that’s slick, well-written and genuinely dramatic. Shortland Street has jazzed itself up over the summer and now looks sharper than Leanne wearing a poncho. Shortland Street has risen again and it looks GOOD Photo: South Pacific Pictures Not a great start to the year for her, then. “You just have to trust me,” she told him, in a voice that plainly said “I killed a man with a fire extinguisher and framed an innocent woman for the crime”. ![]() Rebecca likes spreadsheets as much as she likes evangelism, and suggested she and Chris could make Shortland Street rise again. He printed off heaps of spreadsheets, but it made no difference to the DHB who decided Shortland Street would close forever. With TK suspended and his daughter Tilly now a ram-raider, Dr Love had to step up to secure funding for Shortland Street’s survival. Chris is back as CEO of Shortland Street, only for it to close forever Marc, rhymes with narc, future is dark, belongs in a park. Marc lost his memory in the fire and doesn’t remember Madonna leaving him for dead Then there was old mate Kate Hannah, who once spent the night with Dr Love and then chucked him out of her bedroom window, only for him to puncture his butt cheek on a tree in her garden:Īnd Brooke Freeman is in charge at St Cath’s, where she doesn’t have time to listen to the family troubles of her staff members because she has a hospital to run that coincidentally the public believes “reeks of pākehā privilege”.įinally, we can’t forget Guy Warner hooning into our lives again, even if he did refuse to let Chris spend the Warner trust fund millions on reopening Shortland Street. First there was the welcome return of Warner triplet Sass, whose sarky friendship with Monique was like sunshine on a cloudy day: Almost everyone who ever starred in Shortland Street made a guest appearanceĪbsolute scenes as Shortland Street rolled out cameo after cameo after cameo, like some sort of fancy parade of New Zealand actors dressed in hospital scrubs. Happy for my taxpayer funds to pay for this ambulance to cruise the street in search of Dawn’s boofhead pet. Shortland Street staff have been transferred to both hospitals, and while Central is a stressful cesspit of misery and disease, the private St Cath’s is run by none other than…Brooke Freeman? Please, nobody mention Scott Spear. ![]() Last night we went where no Shortland Street episode has gone before: into Central and St Catherine’s hospitals. We finally see inside Central and St Catherine’s ![]() After 30 years, we finally got a Chris Warner shower sceneįive weeks later: he got out of the shower. Pray for a Chris Warner shower scene, and we will all be rewarded. Rebecca has an impeccably ironed wardrobe and the ability to hypnotise people with eerie messages of religious redemption. Televangelist TV ratings are through the roofĪfter a stink summer, Ferndale has become obsessed with watching religious television presented by Brightshine leader Rebecca (a fabulously creepy Antonia Prebble). Chris Warner spent a lot of time looking at Shortland Street’s burnt-out shell and sighing. Last night’s episode opened five weeks after the events of the cliffhanger, and while there’s a lot we don’t yet know, it seems everyone is missing the hospital. Not even Rachel McKenna getting struck by lightning made Shortland Street have a time jump like this. Here’s ten of the most dramatic moments from the show’s return. It seemed like this might be the end of Shortland Street as we knew it, so the first episode for 2023 had plenty of questions to answer. A terrible fire swept through Ferndale that burnt Shortland Street hospital to a crisp, and lives were in danger, marriages were falling apart, and Chris Warner’s hair had never looked so dishevelled. Last year’s Shortland Street cliffhanger left our favourite fictional hospital in a flaming hot state of peril. The nation’s favourite soap returned for 2023 last night with plenty of familiar old faces. ![]()
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