This time last year, Peter was knocking on heaven's door. After Ashley sacrificed himself to get Peter out of The Joinery alive, he was only showing weak signs of life. One year on, Emily Bishop innocently asks Peter to make a speech for the tram crash memorial service.
Little did she know she had sparked another type of crash altogether - the sound of the crash as Peter fell off the wagon.
Peter's day wasn't made any better by the fact that one of his AA meeting friends was himself on death's doorstep, Peter told him that they were a team, that they could fight through it together.
That night at the Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Peter was told his friend had passed away, he'd discharged himself, and made his way to the closest drinking hole. Devastated, Peter returned home and worked on his speech, and forced by the immense pressure he was under, he took a swig of Vodka and went back to working on the speech that Emily had asked him to give.
What did you all think of Peter Barlow's episode last night?
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6 comments:
His performance was powerful. You could realllly feel his angst. My husband was an addict - highly functional in life, like Peter. But when stress made him fall, he really fell. And it was always a long way back up. Peter portrayed it perfectly. My husband passed away 4 years ago from liver cancer due to his addictions. I was moved by this particular episode.
~JB in Canada
That's a nice post. Sorry to hear that you've been through a hard time.
Very depressing episode, its a pity we can have cheerier stories coming up to Christmas.
Powerful episode. Chris Gascoyne did a sterling job and enjoyed the interactions with different characters.
It's good to see a continuing storyline, unlike David and his disappearing epilepsy
Chris Gascoyne did a fantastic job. And hats off to the writers. It was very effective seeing the world through Peter's eyes, booze everywhere to tempt him. Gripping stuff.
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