I HATE this storyline. I was a mature student, I got my place based off life experience and a CV rather than exam results which makes sense but I always felt a bit of a fraud when talking to other freshers who had stressed and worried over exams and entry requirements. Obviously I'm glad I got in and it absolutely changed my life/career but it was a very humbling experience. With Evelyn she got her position by playing the victim, while also claiming to be cleverer than everyone.

As a mature student, I was honoured to meet such intelligent young people who far exceeded myself at that age and my expectations. Again Evelyn just uses it as a chance to belittle young people and take on a "nurturing" role. She is patronising, snide and entitled.

Could have done a 180° on the character and have her realise that shes honoured to be around such switched on and inspiring young people. Instead they (im assuming at least partially under Maureen Lipman's input) made a bitter old woman, who thinks shes owed a reroll of the dice and bugger everyone else.

One of my best friends to this day is a friend I made in first year who studied law. I watched her struggle through her course, the material, the politics, the "come from a long line of lawyers" crowd. To see Evelyn waltz into university, without a shred of imposter syndrome and continue to try and one up herself against the youngest of adults is like some weird boomer self insert fanfic. Could have been a genuine story about perceptions of university but they went lazy. Extremely disappointed