Hiya! It’s just Jordan with my
thoughts on this Friday’s Corrie before the festivities begin. I’m feeling festively
flippant about Friday’s eps and I know this review is going to be a little slapdash,
but I want Santa! So anyway… here we go!
After being battered round the
head with a wrench the other day, Eileen is feeling much better. However, that
doesn’t stop her from being at the hospital, but this time she is visiting
Billy after Peter left him for dead that other day after confessing to him that
he caused the crash that killed his sister Susan over a decade ago. *takes a
deep breath*. Poor Peter is still reeling from the news that the local vicar caused
the death of his sister before and just happened to move onto the Street she
once lived on and became embroiled with her family. He’s in a dodgy mood and
because remember that Peter’s assigned issue is alcoholism, he almost hits the
bottle. Fortunately, there is an AA meeting being held in some convenient
location, so he goes along to that. Following the filler, he goes to the church
where Billy is sitting in on a rehearsal for the Christmas choir. Peter insists
that Billy leaves with him so he can hurt him. Surely to God, no one is this
bloody melodramatic in real life? You just get over things. Back at number 1, Peter
shows Billy all the photos of Susan that arrived just in time for this storyline,
opens a bottle, but not for himself. He then goes on to blame the death of the
sister he never mentions for his alcoholism. He dramatically throws a perfectly
good bottle of booze against the wall and opens another, trying to make Billy
drink it. Then, in order to send Billy’s world crashing down, Peter reveals
that he has been in contact with Summer’s grandmother and has given her
information that will cause him to lose custody of her. Yet another example of
a character changing for the sake of a storyline. No matter how distraught Peter
was that Billy had accidentally killed his forgotten sister, Peter knows all
about losing a child after all the debacles he had Simon. He wouldn’t have the
heart to cause someone to lose their child. So, that pantomime witch
grandmother of Summer’s rings and says she is coming to collect her. It’s Todd
to the rescue though as he pulls up and they dramatically speed off into the
night. But that’s not all. Peter even goes to the bother of tying Billy up and
dumping him in the back of his cab, leaving him in the middle of nowhere. Stop
this nonsense.
Elsewhere, it has become apparent
that the Street really has a thing for silly costume storylines recently. I
think this was the third or fourth in a month. In a bizarre attempt to be
funny, Brian accidentally gives Cathy magic mushrooms, so she is unable to be
Mrs Claus at yet another Christmas event organised by Yasmeen. Seriously, does
that woman do anything else? She only seems to faff about with books or
organise daft stuff for children. Anyway, due to her indisposition of Cathy, Brian
must step in and be Santa. Things go awry when Asha Alahan turns up and carries
out her usual brattish behaviour. Brian puts a Christmas curse on her,
declaring her permanently present-less and she goes crying to Dev. This causes a bit of uninteresting friction
later on in the pub. Even later on, some friction was had between Tracy and Steve
when the old flames had a few flirty drinks in the pub and hastily went home.
Okay then.
Hmmm. Things are just not adding up
anymore. However, I did love seeing Carla Connor (who our own Flaming Nora fabulously described as "the Elsie Tanner for the Twitter generation") back on our screens. However, I do hope her return was builds up to something more worthy. But as it is Christmas Eve, I
am going to end on a positive note.
Merry Christmas to all my fellow bloggers and our wonderful readers! Have a fabulous time.
Jordan xxx
PS – if you fancy a giggle, read my
Corrie-themed ‘All I Want For Christmas is You’ parody here!
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