Hiya! It’s just Jordan. I bet you don’t remember me as my contribution to the blog has been dwindling appallingly in recent weeks. Honestly, (and I think I’ve bleated something similar to this before), watching Corrie is hard work at the minute. It’s not interesting and the episodes pile up before you know it. But I have missed blogging and sharing my views in this wonderful hub. So, anyway, on with my review of Friday’s stomach-churning, issue-spinning trip to Weatherfield…
Tyrone is still in the bad books with Fiz after she found out he slept with Gemma the other night. It’s quite ironic really. I wonder if Kirsty felt the same way. Totally forgetting that their whole relationship was born out of an affair, she’s chucked him out and he has ended up staying at Kevin’s. Chesney – small minded as ever – calls round to Fiz’s, still convinced that Tyrone is now worse than Hitler but with a pinky promise (which Fiz wrongly cites as being mentioned in Legally Blonde), agrees to keep schtum in front of the children. Roy calls round to see Fiz who is relishing in all the attention because her partner committed a relatively minor offense. While they are chatting in the kitchen, Hope is up to no good in the next room, trying to convince cousin Joseph that her cape is magic and that he will fly if he jumps from the top of the stairs. She catches Hope ready to push him and suddenly realises she has much more to worry about than what her mechanic was tinkering with the other night. As we know, all of the bad behaviour in number 9 recently had been blamed on Ruby – Hope’s half-sister. Fiz had jumped to conclusions, deciding that she had inherited some crazy gene from her husband-beating mother. If anything, it would appear that Hope has inherited some crazy gene from her serial-killing father. Hope finally admits that she was the one that locked herself and her sister in the factory and set a power tool off and somewhat unsurprisingly, Fiz refrains from admitting to Tyrone that her daughter is in fact the crazy one, possibly as an act of petty revenge.
Still, by the end of the episode, the pair have agreed to get their relationship back on track (even after an incredibly small minded Chesney barged in, condemned Tyrone and labelled Fiz as stupid), and Fiz managed to have a private word with Hope, in which she promised to stop her psycho behaviour. Fiz doesn’t seem convinced though and sighs by the staircase, wondering whether there is any hope for Hope. However, she can’t resist bringing up the cheating thing one last time and when Tyrone goes to touch her, she bleats on yet again about how badly he hurt her, making the wrong things way more dramatic than they need to be.
Oooh what’s that I hear? Oh yes. It’s the rusty wheels of Corrie's issue trolley creaking. I’m not going to spend ages reporting on this one because as with all sensationalist storylines as of late, it is just as unnecessary as the last. But as it is so huge, I can’t avoid it. When fishing in Shona’s coat pocket for a spare tenner, he finds a broken necklace. He recognises it as one worn by his dead wife, Kylie NotMinogue. As it turns out, Lily had accidentally broken it and Shona had put it in her pocket with the intentions of taking it to get fixed. But David, who Sarah describes as “twisted”, is furious that she didn’t tell him. However, when new best friend Josh invites him out into town for drinks to celebrate his half-day at the salon, he changes his tune and forgets all about the necklace. Josh has a sinister plan. To cut a long story short, over the course of the day, he continually spikes David’s drinks with God knows what. When they come to leave the bar, David is in no fit state to get home alone and accepts Josh’s invitation to stop at his. High as a kite, he crawls onto the sofa and needs to be carried bed. Once there, Josh throws him face down and unbuckles his trousers. End of ep. Start of issue.
Elsewhere, Eva’s farcical fake pregnancy is starting to show. She’s eating all the junk food that her real life counterpart would faint at the thought of and this has to be covered up by Toyah as grieving for her relationship with Adam.
As well as all that, the weird storyline with Michelle’s on-off son continued. As we know, the son Michelle discovered was swapped at birth is now a trainee GP at the medical centre. Now called Ali (simply because there is now another Alex on the Street and we cannot possibly have that), he is refusing to have anything to do with Michelle and in Friday’s episode, he seemed to be having problems with his legal mother Wendy. The pair could be heard rowing by an entire waiting room behind the closed door of the examination room, much to the fabulous Moira’s intrigue who does everything she can to listen in. Even Moira cannot quite grasp Liz’s explanation of the bizarre storyline which saw a baby swap discovery forgotten about for ten years and then suddenly unearthed in the weirdest of ways.
Not a bad couple of episodes. They were brilliantly written by the Jonathan Harvey, which is always a treat. It may come as a shock that I am not interested in all these issue driven storylines, but comedy characters such as Moira certainly make up for that. Even if they did bring her back on the most convenient technicality ever (well, not quite as convenient as Tracy’s murder charge), I’m glad they did. Along with the scenes with Eva and Toyah, her scenes were the best of the episodes. Corrie needs more daft farce like this. I’ve made it clear I’m not enjoying Corrie much right now bu I don’t think I’ll give up on it because as I’ve said many times before, I love the essence of Corrie. As Kylie says, “I can’t start giving you up, I’m mad about you…” – and as Sonia says “You’ll never stop me from loving you, it doesn’t really matter what you put me through”.
As always,
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Jordan
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5 comments:
You are quite right about Chesney being small minded. He used to be small minded but quiet and non confrontational, now he's small minded and trying to act like the hard man of the street. Pathetic.
Never mind that Fiz using Ruby as a pawn to get back at Tyrone (while hiding the truth about Hope), no matter what he did, is child abuse and something that should never be done.
I hope the show touches on that but somehow I doubt it.
Kylie and Sonia? Have I entered a time warр? :)
There is no such thing as an "unnecessary" story as long as it is told well. It matters not one iota if it's a currently relevant issue or not, a story is a story, and this one in particular has never been told on the show, a show in its fifth decade finding a fresh story to tell is an achievement of the people working on it. Corrie has been doing issue storylines for decades, without them it would have stagnated a long long time ago, and yes, it's a plus if it helps real world awareness and dialogue. I'm actually curious as to what kind of storyline qualifies as not being issue based and which do? How many excellent stories would never have been explored for fear of being "sensationalist"? I'd rather a sensationalist drama (this is a soap after-all) than a boring, dreary, show nobody wants to watch, except for nostalgic fans.
It's ironic and hyporcritical that Fiz is worried about Ruby becoming her mother as SHE has become Cilla keeping the truth about Hope to herself and letting poor Ruby take the blame as revenge.Poor Ruby has to go to counselling for something she didn't do while Hope gets away with 'I won't do it again mommy'Pathetic.
It seems that Fiz didn't tell Chesney about Hope pushing Joseph down the stairs otherwise I doubt he would be so supportive towards his sister and demand she tells Tyrone the truth.
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