The Chase

The Chase
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Gaby’s over the moon when her daughter Celia gets chickenpox. It’s because Gaby didn’t have the illness as a child so isn’t immune and it means she’s decamping to Bob and Lee’s house for one long weekend of partying with her gay pals. But after finding out that Bob and Lee are trying to adopt and have even decorated a nursery, she realises how lucky she is to have such a good family life. There’s a spot of bother over at the Scavo house. Penny’s furious when her mum Lynette forgets her birthday and then gives her a cake for ‘Polly’. The little girl runs away in disgust. Lynette eventually finds her at a motel and the pair decide to have a girlie night there together and discuss Penny’s fears about the new baby. Andrew doesn’t like Sam moving in on his mum’s catering business, but Sam astutely observes that Andrew is having an affair with the new, but useless, employee Tad, and tells Bree about it. But it’s clear that Sam is jealous of Andrew and wants Bree to get rid of her from the business altogether. Meanwhile, Angie is livid when she finds out Danny didn’t go camping but followed Ana to New York. She panics that her mysterious nemesis Patrick will catch up with her son there. Meanwhile, after Katherine tells her shrink she’s having feelings for Robin, she finally sleeps with the former stripper...

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Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.