EastEnders fans blown away by ‘phenomenal’ legend in sad story

EastEnders fans person praised Steve McFadden’s performance, arsenic Phil Mitchell’s mental health communicative reached a head.

Earlier this week, the Walford stalwart attempted to instrumentality his ain beingness successful his garage, earlier taking a near-fatal autumn into the grease pit beneath his feet.

The mishap occurred aft his depression worsened successful the aftermath of an enlightening conversation with Nigel Bates’ (Paul Bradley) caller mate Livi.

She told him that she recognised his behaviour patterns and could comparison his emotion to her ain grief erstwhile she mislaid her father.

A implicit alien being the archetypal 1 to recognise his slump proved excessively much, and aft bursting into tears helium rushed disconnected to his garage.

Fortunately, the adjacent morning, Harry Mitchell (Elijah Holloway) discovered him and helium was quickly rushed to hospital.

Doctors encouraged him to unfastened up to his nearest and dearest, but helium told Nigel that helium took a crook for the worst arsenic a effect of his precocious humor pressure.

Later, aft a speech with Mo Harris (Laila Morse) astir the £10,000 he’d talented to Billy and Honey Mitchell (Emma Barton and Perry Fenwick) for their wedding, it became wide to Nige what had truly happened.

He rushed location to enactment his pal, but Phil didn’t privation to perceive it.

Furious to perceive that idiosyncratic had realised that helium had attempted to instrumentality his ain life, helium ordered Nigel to leave.

At the extremity of the episode, Phil was arguing with idiosyncratic successful his surviving country – but determination was cipher there. We cognize that successful upcoming scenes, he’ll endure hallucinations of his precocious parent Peggy (Jaime Winstone) and his younger aforesaid (Daniel Delaney).

EastEnders viewers flocked to societal media to stock their admiration for Steve pursuing the affectional scenes.

‘Phil is the sole crushed I’m invested successful EE close now’ said one.

‘Steve McFadden hardly says 2 words each occurrence yet is inactive carrying the pb up to the 40th connected his backmost with his phenomenal performance.’

Another added: ‘i genuinely consciousness atrocious for anyone who can’t spot the worth successful soaps, due to the fact that what steve mcfadden tin bash successful an bare country is unmatched. the antheral is successful a league of his own.’

‘If Steve McFadden doesn’t get immoderate awards for his show I WILL beryllium rioting’ posted a 3rd user.

A 4th added: ‘Superb, hard-hitting performances from Steve McFadden and Paul Bradley.

‘It’s ironic, and precise sad, that Phil doesn’t privation to live, yet is physically healthy; whereas, Nigel wants to live, but has dementia.

‘Hopefully, they volition beryllium capable to assistance each other.’

‘I request to spot Steve McFadden successful a tuxedo holding a Best Actor award’ shared different viewer.

In agreement, 1 instrumentality commented: ‘Steve McFadden deserves each flipping grant going for his acting for his existent storyline successful #EastEnders. The past 2 episodes person been a masterclass. This is deep, and it’s lone gonna get deeper.’

In adjacent week’s episodes, Nigel is forced to instrumentality hopeless measures erstwhile he contacts Phil’s estranged member Grant (Ross Kemp) and asks him to instrumentality to The Square.

Will Grant beryllium capable to assistance Phil?

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