Hiya! It’s just Jordan with this week’s Friday review!
Robert has found himself in receipt of a surprise donation
from Chesney. £1000 as thanks for pushing his son out of the way of an oncoming
car the other day. He is hesitant to accept it, but when Chesney refuses to
take it back, the chef decides how Corrie can tackle one issue whilst ramming
in a revisit to an old one. While having
a pint in the Rovers with Jonny, Robert receives an invite to a private poker
game. Perfect! Jonny insists on tagging along, but makes a secret phone call to
Michelle just to let her know what is going on. He leaves after Robert confidently
backs the fat envelope of money, but calls by the Bistro to reassure Michelle
that her partner is fine, all the while knowing that he isn’t. While at the
Bistro, Tracy overhears Michelle speaking of her concerns for Robert and
demands to know what is going on, as she was married to him. When Michelle
reveals that Robert may have testicular cancer, the Wicked Witch of
Weatherfield pulls a never before seen face of shock and remorse, even offering her sympathy in her most darling Dorothy voice. Back at the
casino,it should come as no surprise to anyone that Robert soon gets in over
his head, and his bank card is placed on the table. Arriving back at the
Bistro, Michelle isn’t too concerned to hear that he lost £100. As far as she
is concerned it was £100 spent taking his mind off the operation. She later
gets all intimate with him and offers to take him to bed. I wonder if she’d
feel the same way if she knew that in actual fact he had lost £10,000?
Pat Phelan appears to be playing Mr Nice Guy. That’s the
problem. He’s always appearing to play him, but seldom ever is. Although giving
£5,000 to each of the residents affected by his dodgy flats scheme that fell through
is a pretty nice thing to do. He’s even managed to fool Anna Windass into
thinking he has turned over a new leaf. As we know, Pat recently offered Anna
an ultimatum: if she doesn’t help Nicola reunite with him, he will have her
sent to prison for pushing Seb off that ladder, something we all know she didn’t
do. Over a glass of wine, Anna explains that since they’re going to have a
grandchild in common soon, they should bury the hatchet. She even offers to help, on the condition
that he explains just why he would have her framed. Instantly – and without any
noticeable signs – Phelan reverts back to his old self, insisting that she did
indeed commit the crime. She does her
signature yelling and he leaves. Next stop for Phelan and his home visits is
number 8, to see Seb. In the space of minutes, he manages to twist Seb’s arm
into thinking that Anna did push him off the ladder, and that she hates him because
of his HIV. Later on, when Anna is trying unsuccessfully to contact Gary, she
answers the door to the police. She is arrested on the spot and is hauled off
in the back of a police car, protesting her innocence.
Elsewhere, Our Pal Sal is doing her do-gooder rounds after
it made the front page in the Gazette that she – the mayor of Weatherfield –
threw her bipolar sister out of the house after she was landed £5,000 in debt. The
Street seems to be in need of a communal accountant right now, given all the
debts and dodgy deals people have got themselves into. Still, Gina has managed to start repaying her
sister after successfully designing and flogging her weird and wonderful
designs on the market. Anyway, Mayor Metcalfe knows that Angie Appleton is tackling
the seldom-discussed issue of post-natal depression and has been making a few
phone calls to bump her up the waiting list for a counselling session. Angie is
furious to hear this, and Mary – having been shut out by her long-lost family
for a while now – sees this as her opportunity to win them back. She threatens
Sally with a bunch of lilies, and later on, in the pub, Jude and Angie make
amends with her. Yay. As well as all
that, budding journalist Daniel got his
hands on Billy’s dark past and badgered the vicar to discuss it for a piece,
which, obviously didn’t go down too well…
An okay-ish couple of episodes. Do forgive me if I’ve missed
anything major out. It’s becoming harder and harder to give Corrie my full
attention these days.
As always,
Thanks for reading!
Jordan
6 comments:
What is this I'm hearing in the news of Gary dying?????????
Loved the small, scene with Daniel and Adam in the flat. Daniel's simmering anger and sarcasm was a joy to watch.
Phelan reverts back to his old self, because he realises that something about the situation is off, almost as if Anna is recording the conversation on her phone, which is funny as that's exactly what actually happened.
Gary is supposedly going to be killed in a car blast whilst away on another 'dangerous' mission. There will be no survivors. He'll probably come back with amnesia or something equally as lame.
Well, I think you're doing a fine job, just Jordan! Loved your description of Tracy and her "most darling Dorothy voice". I'm also finding it a bit hard to rush to catch up with all the week's episodes. It's a lot of a good thing.
Oooh, Tashacat, that was a juicy little scene. Daniel does do good sarcasm. Just hope he doesn't sink into it as a major character trait.
Cannot wait for Phelan to be gone. Talk about dragging your feet with a story.
Unbelievable that Chesney had a thousand pounds in cash to hand back to Robert. If he needs to get a second job and has no rent money from Kirk and Beth surely he would have spent that money by now?
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