I liked May and Willie. Nora and Julie were OK. Never liked Daphne much, but re-watching that era on DVD recently, she's much better than I remembered her.
BUT
Jenny Hartley was awful. Pippa Reynolds was awful. I could take or leave Ettie, I guess. Joyce and Merv were OK, but the show didn't need comic relief whilst May and Willie were in it. Lou seems to be a shadow of her former self now Myra's gone. Lexie turns into something really unlikeable. And the storylines are all slow and uninvolving.
Apart from the Factory/Tracey Morris period, the Barnhurst 5 era has to be the least interesting time for the show.
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