Thursday, 8 December 2011

The weight of the world on his shoulders

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:

  1. Anonymous9 December 2011 at 09:30

    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

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  2. Anonymous9 December 2011 at 09:40

    That's a nice post. Sorry to hear that you've been through a hard time.

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  3. Looney Baloon9 December 2011 at 13:02

    Very depressing episode, its a pity we can have cheerier stories coming up to Christmas.

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  4. Llifon9 December 2011 at 15:42

    Powerful episode. Chris Gascoyne did a sterling job and enjoyed the interactions with different characters.

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  5. Anonymous9 December 2011 at 18:46

    It's good to see a continuing storyline, unlike David and his disappearing epilepsy

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  6. Humpty Dumpty9 December 2011 at 19:06

    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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