First, Jim Robinson made a surreal appearance from beyond the grave. Then, Raymond Renshaw arrived in Erinsborough, bringing with him the spirit of Evil Cooper
In recent years, Home and Away’s musclebound River Boys have introduced an air of easy violence to Summer Bay, interspersing the perpetual grumble of Alf Stewart and good-natured chookery of Marilyn with flashes of underworld danger straight out of Animal Kingdom. But Neighbours, though peppered with the occasional murder, remains a friendlier proposition, soaked in the progressive attitudes of cosmopolitan Melbourne.
Still, Neighbours has always been a little flaky. A door that opened with the notorious Bouncer’s Dream – a 1990 episode told from the perspective of a dog dreaming of marrying his collie lover – has never been allowed to close. The bursts of magic realism that invade Ramsay Street share common cause with David Lynch’s mid-to-late 80s purple patch, where the mundane and stilted suddenly abut left-field creative decisions. Lynch obviously draws heavily from soap opera. He even cast two Home and Away actors in Mulholland Drive. But no one could have predicted how hard Neighbours would go in on Lynch at the turn of this year.
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