Waterloo Road Season 11 marks the return of the school, now relocated to Greater Manchester, and focuses on a new generation of students and teachers dealing with modern, realistic issues. The season centres on headteacher Kim Campbell, who is determined to rebuild the school’s reputation while balancing strict rules with genuine care for her students. The staff face challenges like safeguarding, mental health crises, social media pressure, poverty, racism, homophobia, and knife crime, while often clashing over how best to protect vulnerable pupils.
You are Billy Hargrove’s Twin sister, half sisters with Max. You are actually abused by Billy, Max is a few years younger and moved to live with Mike, so you’re all alone.
From Elphaba’s arrival at Shiz University, where she’s an angry, brilliant outsider caring fiercely for her fragile sister Nessarose, to the end of the story, Wicked follows how truth becomes twisted into legend: at school, Elphaba clashes with the popular, approval-seeking Glinda, but they slowly form a real friendship; Elphaba’s natural magic draws the attention of Madame Morrible and the seemingly benevolent Wizard of Oz, while the silencing and imprisonment of talking Animals—embodied by the gentle professor Dr Dillamond—awakens Elphaba’s moral fire; when Elphaba and Glinda meet the Wizard, Elphaba learns he is a powerless fraud using fear to rule Oz, and when she refuses to help him, she is branded “wicked,” escapes, and publicly defies him, while Glinda stays behind, choosing safety and status; years later, Oz is tightly controlled, Elphaba is hunted as a villain despite secretly fighting injustice, Glinda becomes the beloved public face of goodness, Fiyero—once carefree—falls deeply in love with Elphaba and risks everything to help her, Boq is tragically transformed into the Tin Man, and Nessarose becomes a cruel ruler whose accidental death under Dorothy’s house further blackens Elphaba’s name; Fiyero is captured and seemingly killed but is magically transformed into the Scarecrow, Dorothy confronts Elphaba over the silver shoes, and in the climactic moment Elphaba fakes her own death by “melting,” allowing Oz to believe the lie; in truth, Elphaba survives and escapes with Fiyero to live freely, while Glinda finally exposes the Wizard, banishes him, imprisons Morrible, and accepts the lonely responsibility of ruling Oz honestly—ending with both women changed forever, one remembered as wicked, the other as good, even though the audience knows the truth was always far more complicated. Glinda’s story in Wicked is about a girl who begins by wanting love and admiration and ends by choosing truth and responsibility: when she arrives at Shiz University as Galinda, she is bubbly, charming, privileged, and deeply focused on being liked, believing that popularity equals goodness, and although she looks shallow, she genuinely wants harmony and avoids conflict because she’s terrified of rejection; forced to room with Elphaba, she initially mocks and misunderstands her, but guilt and growing affection turn their rivalry into a real friendship, and through Elphaba she begins to see injustice in Oz—especially the cruelty toward the Animals—even if she isn’t yet brave enough to confront it; when they meet the Wizard, Glinda understands the truth but chooses safety, staying behind to become the public symbol of “goodness” while Elphaba takes the blame, a decision that haunts her as she rises to power, loses Fiyero, and lives in constant performance; by the end, after Elphaba’s staged death, Glinda finally acts with courage, exposing the Wizard as a fraud, imprisoning Madame Morrible, and accepting leadership without illusion, knowing she will be loved but lonely, changed forever by her friendship with the woman history will never forgive.
In Drawing Closer, everything begins to change when she — a quiet, observant girl who spends her days painting emotions she cannot always speak — learns that her life has a limit, time slipping through her hands far faster than anyone her age should ever face. Rather than collapsing under fear, she accepts the truth with gentle courage, choosing to live honestly even as the world around her grows quieter and more fragile.
In Seasons 4–5, everything changes when y/n Byers—Will’s emotionally sensitive, intuitive sister—doesn’t just sense Vecna but becomes psychically touched by him, discovering she has powers that manifest through emotion rather than force: she can slip into minds, feel memories like physical spaces, and move through the Upside Down without losing herself, which is exactly why Vecna enters her mind deliberately, invading her thoughts with visions of the Creel House, his childhood, and his belief that humans are weak because they love, attempting to groom her into understanding him; unlike Will, who feels Vecna like a shadow pressing against his neck, y/n experiences him as a presence that speaks, argues, and tries to rewrite her fear into loyalty, forcing her to fight him inside her own mind while Joyce—desperate and relentless—refuses to believe her daughter is lost, Hopper risks everything to protect her, and Eleven, quiet but fierce, recognizes y/n’s powers as something different from her own and trains with her, teaching control while learning that y/n’s strength comes from connection rather than isolation; the Wheelers are deeply affected as Hawkins fractures, with Mike becoming more emotionally driven and protective than ever, holding the group together through sheer loyalty, Nancy growing colder and more determined as she researches Vecna’s history, Karen trying to shield her children from a town collapsing into fear, and little Holly Wheeler becoming a haunting symbol of what’s at stake when the Upside Down begins bleeding into homes, flickering lights above her bed reminding everyone that innocence is what Vecna ultimately wants to erase; Dustin keeps hope alive with humor and intelligence, refusing to let fear win, Lucas balances grief and courage as he protects Max, who survives Vecna’s curse but remains fragile and deeply bonded to y/n through shared trauma and recovery, while Steve stands as a steady, selfless protector, Robin sharp and perceptive, and Erica fearless and outspoken as the town descends into chaos; as Season 5 unfolds, Vecna attempts to fully claim y/n by trapping her consciousness inside the Upside Down, showing her a world without pain where she wouldn’t feel overwhelmed or afraid, but anchored by Will—who understands her better than anyone—and the memories of the people who love her, y/n turns her powers inward, using empathy as a weapon, flooding Vecna’s mind with everything he rejects—childhood comfort, loyalty, sacrifice, and love—causing his control to fracture, the Upside Down to destabilize, and the gates to collapse, leaving Hawkins scarred but alive, families broken and rebuilt, the Wheelers closer yet forever marked, Will finally free of the shadow that followed him for years, and y/n emerging not unscarred but whole, no longer the girl Vecna tried to claim, but the one who proved that feeling deeply was never a weakness—it was the thing that ended him.