Tragedy! Now the Phelan’s gone and we can go on, no tragedy!
Hiya! It’s just Jordan with my thoughts on Friday’s trip to
Weatherfield, with drama higher than Amy Winehouse sitting atop the Blackpool Tower.
It would be simply rude to than to do other than dedicate most of the review to
the explosive culmination to one of the most controversial Corrie characters
ever.
As morning dawned in the middle of nowhere, where Eileen and
Pat are supposed to be spending quiet holiday together, but things are becoming
increasingly fractious between the pair. Phelan is desperately trying to sneak
away without Eileen and eventually gets his way, after a heated row. Eileen is
straight on the phone - as soon as she
can get a signal - to best mate Liz ,
after which she feels compelled to follow Phelan. As we know, he is trying to
get away following the discovery of the bodies he thought he’d concealed a few
months ago. He turns up on the boat he claimed to be using for fishing, much to
his annoyance. Another row is quickly set ablaze and a frustrated Eileen cuts
herself on a sharp item in her picnic hamper, which she cleverly kicks into the
water. While all this is going on, Gary Windass is sat with the police, trying desperately
to prove that Phelan is a murderer. Desperate times call for desperate measures
and he smashes up the concrete Phelan buried the bodies in and used to dispose
of his mobile phone. The phone is then traced back to the man himself and time
is running out for the Street’s latest murderer. Tim hurriedly phones Eileen to
tell her to get away, but is forced to leave a message. As she finally manages
to get the message, her face falls as she realises just who she is married to.
One of the weirdest Corrie effects of recent times took place, in which sheep
were sped up ridiculously and daylight turned to darkness. The less said about
that, the better. Yet another row explodes, this time by the edge of the water,
as Eileen reels in all that her husband has done. Phelan tries every which way to wriggle out
of his crimes, to no avail, so eventually confesses all. Wondering how she
could be so stupid, Eileen listens as he breathily explains that he not only
caused the deaths of four people but kept two of them locked up in a cellar. All
of this culminates after one dramatic speech too many and Phelan finds himself
hanging by his fingertips over the sea. Eileen does some labour style breathing
as Phelan screams for help. When she fails to comply, he threatens her with the
promise of killing Todd, to which she responds how any hard faced mother would:
by repeatedly stomping on his fingers and sending him to an icy death. Back in
Weatherfield, the gang are rallying round trying to get to wherever Eileen is.
They eventually find her, and Liz races to her best friend’s side. In a heartfelt
closing scene, Liz tells Eileen that she is innocent and promises that it is over
now. Unfortunately, Liz, it is far from
over, considering Eileen effectively murdered Pat. Given the recent length of
storylines, something tells me that they will find a way to drag is storyline out
for another ten years yet.
Elsewhere, Eva is unable to feel the baby kicking. As we
know, she got herself accidentally pregnant by Aidan and is now keeping said
pregnancy a secret from all but Toyah, who is to bring the baby up as her own,
after failing to tell anyone that her surrogate miscarried. Complicated stuff. Anyway,
at the hospital, it turns out that the baby is absolutely fine and it was just
having a bit of a lazy day in the womb. However, this incident has propelled Eva
into a life-evaluating meltdown. She calls Aidan, which she later claims was
accidental, and is seen in a hospital corridor crying. Yes, Eva, carrying a
baby for someone else is much harder than it seems. Just ask Tina McIntyre. Oh
wait. Also, the lovely gem of a story which featured Audrey Roberts (I just
accidentally typed ‘Rovers’ – and thought it too funny not to report), who is
in hospital following a mugging, trying her hand at DJing on the hospital radio
after being accidentally locked in the studio without the main host. She
manages to bluff her way through some radio jokes, introduces a classic Diana
Ross song and even blags a potential date with the hospital radio host, who is as it turns out, is Tim's suddenly mentioned dad. Oh - and as well as all that, Fiz and Tyrone finally put their childish differences aside for the sake of their children and Simon betrayed his parents' trust again by smashing up a car with the hoodie squad.
All in all, a good couple of episodes! I am very pleased to
see an end to Phelan, but it has to be said that despite the storyline, actor
Connor McIntyre has given one of the best Corrie performances in recent years.
As always,
Thanks for reading!
Jordan
Twitter - @JordanLloyd39
9 comments:
no doubt phelan's body will be fished out of the drink and after the coroner finds the bruising on his hands Eileen will be arrested for his murder.
There is no way Phelan can be dead. If he is, may the producer never be forgiven! We demand justice and a trial.
I'm sure Phelan will be back. I enjoyed the episodes, I could even forgive all the plot contrivances. The 'picnic' in the middle of winter. All the business about losing the keys, no phone signal etc. I absolutely loved Phelan's bonkers monologue but the scene was let down for me by Eileen's underwhelming reaction to such devastating revelations. We'd all been waiting for the penny to drop for Eileen and all things considered, she took it remarkably well, with barely a flicker.
Meanwhile, the daftness of Eva struggling around with a massive bump and no one saying a thing is getting laughable.
Another contrived plot was Audrey getting locked in the DJ booth, but I'm not going to complain, as anything that gives the wonderful Sue Nicholls a storyline is fine by me.
Many thanks for the review Jordan!
No way is Phelan dead.
For one thing, he's not on the list of people leaving the show (ok, could be a ruse on the part of the producers)
He'll be back after he has dried off and warmed up
Eileen with join that now crowded club of the wrongfully imprisoned. Keep your "Free the Weatherfield One" t-shirts at the ready.
Ey, I'm going to miss Pat. I can't believe I was actually disappointed for a split second when I realised it was he who'd fallen in the drink and not Eileen. Connor Macintyre made the character all that he is and I hate to see him go.
So the cops,who are incompetent boobs 90% of the time manage to dig out the bodies,identify them, get the phone that was buried in concrete off to forensics, and pin point Eileen within what...3 hours or so?
LOL, Anon. at 03:56! I was thinking that too. It takes a long time to chisel something out of dried concrete, even if it did look like weak vichyssoise when Phelan poured it that night. It takes a leap of faith the size of the Grand Canyon to believe they could have dug out the phone intact and get any data off it so quickly.
I wonder if any fans of classic episodes can think of such nonsense given to viewers and thought they would be believable?
Thanks so much for your reviews Jordan! I love them :)
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