Greetings and welcome to the Coronation Street Weekly Update. Eagle-eyed readers (hello mum) will know there was no update last week. The reason for that is that I’ve never enjoyed Corrie so little in my whole Corrie-fan-filled-life. However, Corrie’s back on form this week and it even made me smile. And so without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.
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Sunita’s aunties are back on the Street, desperate to set up their niece with someone nice once they find out that Dev’s empire has been reduced to one corner shop and a kebabbery place. But doesn’t he still own the flat in Victoria Court? Never mind, it’s not enough for the aunties who tell Sunita she’s got to find herself a new fella and they take it upon themselves to find someone for her. Must haves include a decent head of hair and social standing, so that’s Steve McDonald out of the frame but it puts Nick Tilsley and Dr. Carter very firmly in. Even Marcus comes under scrutiny of the aunties until Sean comes to collect him from their clutch.
Sean receives bad news in a phone call that tells him that Violet’s been involved in a car crash. She’s going to be fine but her back’s in a bad way and fortunately Dylan wasn’t with her in the car but she needs someone to take care of the lad. Sean’s up to the task, with Marcus’ full support, and the two lads head to London to pick up Sean’s son. Lovely.
Fiz is in court on fraud charges for fiddling Joy Fishwick’s will when she knew fine well she wasn’t entitled. John’s gone AWOL and Fiz is going mad with despair at the state that she’s in. Friends rally round to support her but the best line of all to her was: “You’ve been Staped!” Sally Webster gets a gloat in and snipes to her about Stape.
The tedium that’s been Graeme and Xin’s sham wedding looks set to be finally gone from our screens. Tina finds out what’s been going on between her boyfriend and best friend (you know, the best friend who came out of nowhere and took the soap by the hand down the path of dull despair). Anyway, long story cut short, Graeme makes his decision to choose Xin over Tin and leaves the Street with Xin, leaving Tin in tears and threatening to call immigration to shop up Xin. Remember how Graeme came into Corrie a bit mad, a bit bad, a bit dangerous to know? And look what they’ve done to such a great character, leaving the Street in a bad hat without even a smile. Shame.
In the soup kitchen, Sophie and Sian get the blame from James after the day centre’s burgled. He reckons they didn’t lock up properly at the end of their shift and the two girls feel bad. Sophie and Sian rake money together to repay James some of the stolen cash and Kevin goes ballistic when he walks in on his daughter handing cash over to James. So has the centre been broken into? Is James really telling the truth? Sally and Kev don’t want Sophie to have anything more to do with the charity but Sophie defies them both and accepts a full-time voluntary post after James butters her up an offer she can’t refuse, and one she won’t get paid for.
Over at the Rovers, Steve’s solicitor draws up a contract to give him access to Amy. All he needs to do now is soften up Tracy so she agrees to it all. He starts by offering her the job back behind the bar. Tracy’s not daft, she knows there’s a reason that Steve’s being nice to her, but she accepts the work all the same.
And finally something which put a smile on my face this week was the return of Brian Packham. Brian, you’ll remember, is the Headmaster of the School where Colin/John used to teach. He’s read about Colin/John taking the Hoyles’ hostage, it’s the headline in the Weatherfield Gazette. Armed with newspaper tucked firmly under his arm, he storms in to see Fiz for gossip and chat. It’s the last thing Fiz wants, to scrape all the dirt up on John with someone she hardly knows, but it’s a good quality farce that was very good to watch. And when Brian spies Julie, he’s hopeful that they can reignite the spark that once flared, ever so briefly but brightly, between them, before Julie found out that Brian was wed. His wife’s left him now, he tells Julie, but that doesn’t thaw the cool and calm Ms Carp, not until Fiz admits it was her and John’s fault that Julie and Brian split up. Julie’s face lights up as her heart catches fire, once again, and the love-light burns bright for Brian.
And that's just about that for this week.
This week's writers were Martin Allen, Simon Crowther, Julie Jones, John Kerr and Jim Cartwright.
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Sean receives bad news in a phone call that tells him that Violet’s been involved in a car crash. She’s going to be fine but her back’s in a bad way and fortunately Dylan wasn’t with her in the car but she needs someone to take care of the lad. Sean’s up to the task, with Marcus’ full support, and the two lads head to London to pick up Sean’s son. Lovely. 
12 comments:
Xin and Tin.....hahahahahaha! Hope we won't be seeing Tin wallow in self-pity and hiding away in her flat again....there won't be another Graeme to rescue her. David offered his Mom's place to Graeme and Xin....just how many bedrooms does that place have. There is already David/Kylie, Gail and Nick. Don't tell me Nick and Mummy will double-up..?
Although I hated the Graeme/Xin/Tin story, I thought Graeme's exit was moving. For once it was the right cast members saying goodbye: David, Gail, even Norris. His trip to Ashley's empty Butcher's Shop built up the emotion too. Maybe real life sorrow at Craig Gazey's departure was evident in the scenes, but it was one of the best black cab exits.
Brian was brilliant! I hope he becomes a regular! He and Julie crack me up
I am liking the "Day Centre" story less and less. Sofa and Sian were not shown being distracted or careless in locking up. They were given a responsibility they did not seek and discharged it responsibly, as far as we know. So why should Sofa be so wracked with guilt?
Is this the same Sofa, who would not believe she had given the wrong change to Tommy Duckworth and then declined to apologise when it was proved she had? Speaking of the shop, why does Sofa think it's right to hand over her money to James for what was at worst a mistake, then let down Dev and Sunita and in effect refuse to pay back money she owes them?
Two days ago, Sofa was barely able to believe that she could handle the responsibility of locking up, yet after messing that up, she and James now think she's up to being Day Manager? And why did Kevin's objection to Sofa working at the Centre because of the dodgy types working there change to Sofa wasting her time there?
Please Corrie, employ some more script editors and get a grip on these inconsistencies.
Would love to see a wedding between Julie and Brian..can you just imagine her dress??
Brian and Julie are a necessary bit of relief to the depressing atmosphere that's be brewing on the cobbles of late. I see them becoming a new twist on a couple like Hayley and Roy!
The biggest flaw I see with the Sophie/James storyline so far is that it's illogical for Sophie to give up a paying job to work full-time as a volunteer and this seems to be yet another thrown-together set-up for a flash-in-the-pan storyine like the Xin/Graeme exit or the nonsense surrounding Liz's departure. James is clearly not what he seems; however, the way he's been intertwined with characters on the street is forced and unnecessary - he is Ken's grandson, he really doesn't need any deeper ties than that to be a trouble-maker and a thief. Corrie needs to stop with the make-shift storylines that use staple characters as filler for those just passing through.
Sofa? Is that supposed to be funny?
Sofa Wobstor, that IS funny. Bit of a High Noon scenario with Tina and U'Graeme but he got off in the end and no more grinning Xin - hurrah!
Sofa is the way that Sian pronounces Sophie. I "borrowed" it from someone else here because I thought it was amusing, but different people find different things funny.
I think Kevin pronounces it Sofeh,
Mostly Sian says'SOOWWWFF'..in that high squealing voice that annoys me no end.
The recent episodes of Corrie have been abysmal with one exception this weeks first offeriing written by Jim Kerr.
Dispite all the Actors efforts the programme is only as good as the vastly underrated WRITERS. These are the unsung heroes and deserve greater recognition.
Over a period of 50 years, there have been many excellent writers including the late great John Sulliven but the best by far was ADELE ROSE.
Agree about 'Sofa' giving her immediate notice after having just gotten a pay advance and to be a full-time volunteer a bit contrived. Guess for 'Sofa' being a Christian means you can live at home and sponge off Mummy and Daddy!
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