The character Lexi gets away with screaming at everyone including Myra. Oh wait the character is played by the producers daughter lol. No wonder she's in almost every scene and has the most lines out of any character.
And stands out,by miles, that she can't act.Lexie is Bobbie MrK 2, chronically self-absorbed, doesn't know the meaning of the word 'responsibility',and a psychic vampire to boot! Can't stand either of them,why do people bother with them,they wouldn't in real life???🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🇬🇧♥️♥️♥️🐊🐊🐊
Nobody used to complain when Judy used to slam her fat bbq fingers on the piano every rec period. Still it was hilarious what Alice did lol the only time she's done anything decent.
joan's hair is a little freaky lol, and now she's wearin pants? if she starts wearin a leather jacket and gets fat i'll just think she's jock stewart! :P
Michelle Halloway I know you told me not to reply but I deserved that. I'm sorry if I offended you. It was a stupid thing to say as I don't know you. I feel angry when I'm with a woman they usually tell me they are attracted to women too which I find bisexuals disgusting. Accept my apology please
In some ways I like her even better than Bea but in some ways I like Bea better, they are both excellent though. Some people don't seem to realize what actually makes a good top dog and they like people like Lou Kelly or Reb in the position and that, my dears, is simply bad judgement. The Beas and Myras last much longer as well even in real life.
These next few episodes are some of the best in the entire series. Absolute nail biters, with shocking, graphic, and tragic scenes. Myra is brilliant in these episodes. She certainly goes out with a bang.
Lou Kelly has made like 5 attempts on Desmonds life yet desmond didn't pick her to get killed in the seige when she had the chance, and took the bullet herself
Oh my, with Jenny's "why won't you beliiiiieeeeeve meeeeeeeee", Lexie's screaming, Willie's crying, Nora speaking in the third person about herself, Joyce/Merving bumbling about the place, these episodes are so hard to get through. I know it gets better again, but pfffff.
@Radiant Silver Labs....the way that Ruth Ballinger delivered those lines to the Freak was nothing short of bone chilling "I promise you one thing Ferguson...you're dead!" Gets me every time!
Oliver M Well, the characters in this series are not all tough and strong mentally and emotionally, like say, Bea, Myra, Lou and even Lexie, so it reflects people in real life even to this day. The other thing is that Lynn in her first stint was innocent like Jennifer is here too. We saw Jennifer playing the piano in the drawing room, when her grandmother's tapping (with her walking stick) for help on the ceiling stopped suddenly. Then she came upstairs to find her grandmother with a beaten and bloodied head because of the table lamp, which she naively picked up, leaving her fingerprints when the intruder must have worn gloves. We also know that before her grandmother was murdered, she was almost smothered. She shouted for help and told what happened. She told Jennifer to check the wardrobe and apparently the window, not believing her grandmother, thinking she had a bad dream, but the window had a part of the curtain caught in it, so an intruder had gotten in and then back out again.
and well she should, you need to treat everyone equally to a point, but you also need to realize that some are a cut above the others and make some allowance for that not make it obvious of course but give some leeway, believe them, cut them a little slack etc. For example Myra Desmond is far above someone like Ruth Ballinger or Lou Kelly and a far far better person and deserves better treatment.
I hope this baby actually lives. The writers seem to like killing off babies. I wish Meg would willingly get pregnant again and share family happiness with Dennis.
The Ballinger siege certainly sees the show's high point for quite a while. I hadn't actually watched these eps the first time round in the 90s, so this is all new to me.
@@ecolin4906 but she chose to lag on fellow inmates and say ballinger and kelly were after her and the freak saved her. Surely the inmates dont class getting at fergusson lagging
25:29 "I don't know where I stand anymore" complains Terri. That's understandable - she suddenly has only one button on each shoulder where previously she has always had two. Either she has been quietly demoted to junior officer or. more likely, there's been a goof in the wardrobe department. 31:16 "You're the first person to show me any kindness." Um, what about Myra?
Wentworth has turned into a lonely hearts dating agency...... meg and Dennis❤️ Joyce and Merv💜and now Terri and Joan 🖤🤣🤣 more dating than rehabilitation going on inside cell block H these days 🤣🤣🤣
Funny how Reno is telling her about the no lagging rule and go to Myra, when they whinge and complain about the benefits of coming forward to the Governor instead of the no lagging rule!
Bloody hell Lexi, could you stop whinging and shouting about everything? She's just become a carbon-copy of Reb & Maxine. While Nora is turning into Chrissie Latham with her constant "my baby".
You'd think with the amount of plate smashing that they do, they'd bring out the bare minimum for each sitting. Sloppy and not very efficient. The "department" will not be impressed :)
How old is Jenny? How does she not understand why she's in jail and why they can't just "let her go" simply because she claims she shouldn't be there. I can tell her incessant "you don't understand I shouldn't be here" whining is going to piss me off very quickly. Also, note how she's never once mentioned the fact that her grandmother claimed to have been almost murdered by an intruder the night before, and how she didn't believe her. Instead of saying "I don't know if I did it, I'm so confused," she could have said "it's all my fault, she swore someone tried to kill her last night and I wouldn't believe her and now she's dead." It might at least have put some doubt in Grace's mind. But no, as usual in Prisoner, characters fail to offer the most obvious defense when they're accused of something.
Not being able to get spoilers and no way of leaks I bet this siege and what happens during wud of been a proper shock it's a shame that this kind of excitement and suspense isn't the same as it wud of been back then altho I bet the wait was a nightmare 😲🤯🤣
Hypocrites... I didn’t think you had to tell anyone why you were in, if you didn’t want to. And how can a person know about the ridiculous no lag rule if they aren’t told about it????
When Lou Kelly grimaces she always reminds me of someone and it's been doing my head in but I finally remembered. She reminds me of the kid in the early rave dancer meme from 10+ years ago, this guy i.imgflip.com/a9idm.jpg lol
The screw uniform details drive me up the wall. Didn't Terri have pips when we first saw her? She looks like a junior officer now (though Joan didn't get hers till after about 20 episodes which was ridiculous as she obviously was not a JO when she first arrived at WDC). Dennis doesn't have "Wentworth" on his arms.
Id better not read any more comments yntil the episodes over to avoid spoilers. So many people talking about this being the ultimate storyline etc...i think ive narrowly avoided accidently spoiling it all for myself already. Hope things live up to the reputation.
I think it might have been because Myra wouldn’t have been able to have proven the Freak’s part in the murder attempt and she would have lagged on Lou and Ruth, which she knew not to do despite hating their guts. Lou nearly dropped Ruth in it as well saying that the Freak was part of it, and Ruth told her to shut up. Myra thankfully didn’t have to lag on them both, but she did back the Freak’s story that she saved her life, which dropped them in it already. 😃
I've really enjoyed re watching this storyline on here. Thanks. Anne Phelan plays 'Myra' brilliantly.
I love Myra.
Myra is my favourite top dog
@@louisejenkins7005 Myra is my favourite Top Dog too! Anne Phelan really put in a commanding performance as Myra Desmond!
Auntie Joan is wearing her riot trousers... Stand by for action!
Lexie: "Lurch might be a rat but you still don't lag.."
Lurch: "Right!"
LOLOL
Funny how they nearly all come in protesting their innocence,but automatically assume evry new prisoner is guilty!
Well that is because they have all been charged.
Two words- projection and perception 😉
The character Lexi gets away with screaming at everyone including Myra. Oh wait the character is played by the producers daughter lol. No wonder she's in almost every scene and has the most lines out of any character.
And stands out,by miles, that she can't act.Lexie is Bobbie MrK 2, chronically self-absorbed, doesn't know the meaning of the word 'responsibility',and a psychic vampire to boot! Can't stand either of them,why do people bother with them,they wouldn't in real life???🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🇬🇧♥️♥️♥️🐊🐊🐊
Irritating, ain't it?
And the freak in trousers means only one thing.....trouble....
I liked picture and sculpture of freak made by inmates😂.
Lexie: Lurch might be a rat but you still don't lag
Lurch: Right!!
haha
....and so the Ballinger siege begins...this story arc is by far one of the best but also saddest periods in the entire series
And the wentworth siege begins. Tears already falling as I know wht lays ahead :(
English would help
Nobody used to complain when Judy used to slam her fat bbq fingers on the piano every rec period. Still it was hilarious what Alice did lol the only time she's done anything decent.
Terri is so needy and that voice my God
She's a bitch, gets the freak to fall for her. Then she plays the freak by flirting with her boss.
Why didn't Myra say that Joan was involved also... Oh wait Joan has to be written to be the luckiest woman on earth.
All Lexi does it shout, claims nothing is ever her fault and plays the victim 😂😂
joan's hair is a little freaky lol, and now she's wearin pants? if she starts wearin a leather jacket and gets fat i'll just think she's jock stewart! :P
Corinna Zaccone her hair is so horrid
With rare exceptions, we all had at least 1 bad haircut in the '80s.
Corinna Zaccone Naaaaaar! She looks tooooooo butch LMFAO
Michelle Halloway I know you told me not to reply but I deserved that. I'm sorry if I offended you. It was a stupid thing to say as I don't know you. I feel angry when I'm with a woman they usually tell me they are attracted to women too which I find bisexuals disgusting. Accept my apology please
Michelle Halloway I find CLOSED MINDED Foolish people repulsive.
The faces lou Kelly pulls
: / oh,that gateguard at 38:09 til 38:59 was gorgeous!
discoveryone poor guy
He's Dead Now
He is sexy as fuck.
Jenny doing her 'hooked on classics' piano routine.
they finally get a hot gate guy and they kill him of lol
Piper refers to her mother half the time as mum / and the other half as Ann
Moving straight on to the next episode, what a cliff hanger !! Can't wait !!
I like Myra as a top dog
In some ways I like her even better than Bea but in some ways I like Bea better, they are both excellent though. Some people don't seem to realize what actually makes a good top dog and they like people like Lou Kelly or Reb in the position and that, my dears, is simply bad judgement. The Beas and Myras last much longer as well even in real life.
22:20 - Ferguson tells Egbert to "wait at the gate" but when Ferguson gets to the gate, there's no sign of Egbert! bizarre.
Just a mistake made strange one maybe she was late
Oh no... nearly at the one of the saddest prisoner episodes of all time. Better get my tissues ready n some lollies for comfort :'(
Holly McGinley Oh nooooooo
Poor Myra
This gets me everytime I watch. I loved the Myra era she seemed to have more attempts on her life than previous top dogs.
Lexy has gotten on my last nerve! She's an awful person and her teen moods are as intolerable as the actresses horrible acting!
be glad when jenny's story is over
oh nana !
@ 9:33 - I believe that’s the same actress that plays Queenie Marshall in a few upcoming episodes.
I just noticed that myself after all these years watching the show. Haha. 😄😆
These next few episodes are some of the best in the entire series. Absolute nail biters, with shocking, graphic, and tragic scenes. Myra is brilliant in these episodes. She certainly goes out with a bang.
Lou Kelly has made like 5 attempts on Desmonds life yet desmond didn't pick her to get killed in the seige when she had the chance, and took the bullet herself
finally get a hot gate guy and its blink and hes dead bugger it
Oh God, Jenny is worse than Lynn Warner
Markxxx I know! Hard to believe that could happen...
Markxxx Sick of her already.
Markxxx she is sweet but I agree she is starting to annoy me too!
Oh Nana lmao
Its a recycled lynn warner storyline only this time involving her grandmothers murder not burying a kid alive.
That table lamp at 0:26 must have been imported from the UK/Ireland as it has the brown, blue and green wire colour codes.
This is definitely the best comment so far.
Maybe Pippa Reynolds brought it to Oz when she returned from her stay in Britain.
@@damienlyne8035I concur!!
Nora getting parole lol! They probably would have paroled Myra Hindley with the way they handle sentences
23 years for murder is a fairly long sentence in Australia.
@@martinjenkins5471 What for murdering three people for no reason
The music at the beginning of this ep has been hoovered right off an Arthur C Clarke show.
It's library music
Oh my, with Jenny's "why won't you beliiiiieeeeeve meeeeeeeee", Lexie's screaming, Willie's crying, Nora speaking in the third person about herself, Joyce/Merving bumbling about the place, these episodes are so hard to get through. I know it gets better again, but pfffff.
Bea story with Sonia is similar too Myra ballinger
first time the freak took a threat even semi seriously hehe
@Radiant Silver Labs....the way that Ruth Ballinger delivered those lines to the Freak was nothing short of bone chilling "I promise you one thing Ferguson...you're dead!" Gets me every time!
Jennifer is another Lyn Warner.
Ugh, you're right! Always bleeding all over the carpet. It's annoying tbh.
Oliver M Well, the characters in this series are not all tough and strong mentally and emotionally, like say, Bea, Myra, Lou and even Lexie, so it reflects people in real life even to this day.
The other thing is that Lynn in her first stint was innocent like Jennifer is here too.
We saw Jennifer playing the piano in the drawing room, when her grandmother's tapping (with her walking stick) for help on the ceiling stopped suddenly. Then she came upstairs to find her grandmother with a beaten and bloodied head because of the table lamp, which she naively picked up, leaving her fingerprints when the intruder must have worn gloves.
We also know that before her grandmother was murdered, she was almost smothered. She shouted for help and told what happened. She told Jennifer to check the wardrobe and apparently the window, not believing her grandmother, thinking she had a bad dream, but the window had a part of the curtain caught in it, so an intruder had gotten in and then back out again.
I think at this stage Ann did feel bad for all she put Myra through.
and well she should, you need to treat everyone equally to a point, but you also need to realize that some are a cut above the others and make some allowance for that not make it obvious of course but give some leeway, believe them, cut them a little slack etc. For example Myra Desmond is far above someone like Ruth Ballinger or Lou Kelly and a far far better person and deserves better treatment.
@19:47 "oh get her!" Lol Ettie!
Oh gawwd, I don't think I'm going to last the distance with Jennifer bloody Hartley's protestations of innocence "Oh Nanna!".....Ugh....
Jenny Hartley's pianist: TOO MUCH RUBATO, DAMN IT
1:24 yeaah.. OFCOURSE the prison would allow a prisoner(May) to have knitting needles AFTER what BEV BAKER did with a knitting needle 🤦🏻♀️🙄
It was forgotten to suit the storyline. Just like Jim Fletchers fear of blood.
I hope this baby actually lives. The writers seem to like killing off babies.
I wish Meg would willingly get pregnant again and share family happiness with Dennis.
Mrs. Barry feels so scary with those two dudes with guns pointed at her. Don't shoot Mrs. Barry!
The Ballinger siege certainly sees the show's high point for quite a while. I hadn't actually watched these eps the first time round in the 90s, so this is all new to me.
I love ettie
Yip can't argue with that
9:34 - Is that Queenie Marshall, warming up for Episode 556?
No one took any notice of your comment until now 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The start of the "Main Event" The Ballinger Siege
I don't get Myra Desmond. Why couldn't she tell Mrs Morris how THE FREAK was in on her almost getting injected with heroine
I agree but they would consider that lagging lol
@@ecolin4906 but she chose to lag on fellow inmates and say ballinger and kelly were after her and the freak saved her. Surely the inmates dont class getting at fergusson lagging
They have that stupid no lagging rule even though it harms them
25:29 "I don't know where I stand anymore" complains Terri. That's understandable - she suddenly has only one button on each shoulder where previously she has always had two. Either she has been quietly demoted to junior officer or. more likely, there's been a goof in the wardrobe department.
31:16 "You're the first person to show me any kindness." Um, what about Myra?
Terrie get it right
joan has worn trousers before in earlier episodes!
It's the beginning of the end for Myra !!
And Tammy 😂
After Judy left actually marks The beginning of the End of Myra Desmond era.
Lou vs. Myra for a 100th time. As usual Lou loses again
This Lynn Warner v.2 needs to piss off.
If she keeps on crying through out her her sentence, she may cause a tsunami in the prison.
End of episode...the face paint lol 😂😓
Does "Lurch" need to see a "Shrink?"
I doh understand how Ferguson does get away everytime why these women fraid to say yes she was in it up to she troat
THEY'RE STANDING THERE SCRAPPING THOSE EMPTY PLATES
Jenny time - Fast forward her bits lol
Ruth getting smacked by the freak
Joan wasn't even in the show then. It was almost 170 episodes before she arrived.
Joan's trousers are on
pippa reynolds :) used to watch this all time as a kid
Wentworth has turned into a lonely hearts dating agency...... meg and Dennis❤️ Joyce and Merv💜and now Terri and Joan 🖤🤣🤣 more dating than rehabilitation going on inside cell block H these days 🤣🤣🤣
Lots of affairs are started in the workplace
Funny how Reno is telling her about the no lagging rule and go to Myra, when they whinge and complain about the benefits of coming forward to the Governor instead of the no lagging rule!
True
Myra seems lost without Judy,
She does
17:34 Jenny we know your innocent .... I don't understand why is Grundy allowing you to be framed ...LOL
''ettie you're in my bed again!'
This no lagging shit is killin me.
Leslie I could feel my son moving around by 9/10 weeks and his first proper kick by 13 weeks, alot can be felt before the 20wk mark
Myra versus Ballinger, Kelly and Ferguson - all taken on, one by one. Hooray it's Lurch.A commando raid on Wentworth? Can you believe it?
Steven Cassidy right!? it's kinda humorous actually...I mean all of that face paint?! it's a little much
Myra "The Freak, shes finally proved she'll do anything to get rid of me" ffs, so why cover for her.
NOW CROOKSHANK IS IN THE DINING ROOM SEEING MYRA HOLD A FORK UP AT KELLYS THROAT AND HE DOES NOTHING.
It would never be this easy to break into a prison ! xx
Patterson pain one min she's OK next minute she pain
what the hell , Malone was wearing Senior Officer peps when she first appeared now shes back to Junior Officer
lol That Lou woman gets punched in the guts every episode.
What a lie
@@terriecrocker7937 Not lie, an exaggeration but she gets smacked alot through the series.
Bloody hell Lexi, could you stop whinging and shouting about everything? She's just become a carbon-copy of Reb & Maxine. While Nora is turning into Chrissie Latham with her constant "my baby".
I've always wondered why they have such a large amount of cups, saucers and cutlery, in their dining room
El Gamerico because there are other blocks to use it i guess.
You'd think with the amount of plate smashing that they do, they'd bring out the bare minimum for each sitting. Sloppy and not very efficient. The "department" will not be impressed :)
And your point is
36:24 This is where things start to shake up!
How old is Jenny? How does she not understand why she's in jail and why they can't just "let her go" simply because she claims she shouldn't be there. I can tell her incessant "you don't understand I shouldn't be here" whining is going to piss me off very quickly. Also, note how she's never once mentioned the fact that her grandmother claimed to have been almost murdered by an intruder the night before, and how she didn't believe her. Instead of saying "I don't know if I did it, I'm so confused," she could have said "it's all my fault, she swore someone tried to kill her last night and I wouldn't believe her and now she's dead." It might at least have put some doubt in Grace's mind. But no, as usual in Prisoner, characters fail to offer the most obvious defense when they're accused of something.
Her rendition of Chopins nocturn in e flat was lovely, pearls to swines though
Nothing puts doubt in Grace's mind. He's a lazy stupid investigator who latches on to the first person he can accuse and tosses them in jail.
Not being able to get spoilers and no way of leaks I bet this siege and what happens during wud of been a proper shock it's a shame that this kind of excitement and suspense isn't the same as it wud of been back then altho I bet the wait was a nightmare 😲🤯🤣
Pippa's practically forgotten about Jenny. I wouldn't fly off to Japan if that was my friend.
Pippa's meant to be a self centred brat. It's entirely in character for her.
splinter cell games i thought of towards the end of this episode
How many times has Lou kill Myra now, strangle, elecution, a beating, drug overdose, this is now the 4th time
good to see pippa in her younger days
Hypocrites... I didn’t think you had to tell anyone why you were in, if you didn’t want to.
And how can a person know about the ridiculous no lag rule if they aren’t told about it????
I like watching pcbh
the break in for Ballinger must be one of the most ridiculous storylines of pcbh but love it all the same
Lorna young is the longest serving prisoner background actress. But with the occasional line she gets I think it was episode 2 until then end.
I'm sure Arnie says Lionel's line. Arnie says.. Arnie, Lionel here how's business?
Youre right
When Lou Kelly grimaces she always reminds me of someone and it's been doing my head in but I finally remembered. She reminds me of the kid in the early rave dancer meme from 10+ years ago, this guy i.imgflip.com/a9idm.jpg lol
The screw uniform details drive me up the wall. Didn't Terri have pips when we first saw her? She looks like a junior officer now (though Joan didn't get hers till after about 20 episodes which was ridiculous as she obviously was not a JO when she first arrived at WDC). Dennis doesn't have "Wentworth" on his arms.
'A real sheep in wolf's clothing.' 🤦♂
I've missed something, what were the photos being used to blackmail Joan?
Her collecting drugs for ballenger. They took pics of the meet to blackmail her
Her collecting drugs for ballenger. They took pics of the meet to blackmail her
Id better not read any more comments yntil the episodes over to avoid spoilers. So many people talking about this being the ultimate storyline etc...i think ive narrowly avoided accidently spoiling it all for myself already. Hope things live up to the reputation.
I don't think that hairbrush will do Alice any good, she's hideous.
Why can't someone give lexie a good bashing 😂
She's a skinny emo version of Doreen
What happened too guy in car at Wentworth
Still not sure why Myra saved The Freak.
I think it might have been because Myra wouldn’t have been able to have proven the Freak’s part in the murder attempt and she would have lagged on Lou and Ruth, which she knew not to do despite hating their guts.
Lou nearly dropped Ruth in it as well saying that the Freak was part of it, and Ruth told her to shut up.
Myra thankfully didn’t have to lag on them both, but she did back the Freak’s story that she saved her life, which dropped them in it already. 😃