Evening Corrie fans, it’s Kelly here with the
first of your Friday night Corrie reviews.
If tonight’s episodes were a Cosmopolitan
magazine it would be ‘the parenting issue’. First up we have Seb and Abi who
are still rowing over the court case and Abi’s decision to put the twins up for
adoption. Seb is so determined to keep the twins that he’s considering adopting
them himself, even if it means turning his back on his mum. Whilst Abi is
arguing that they deserve a better life than the one she can give them. To be
fair she may have a point. You’d be hard pressed to find a lawyer or a
finance manager amongst the kids who grew up on Coronation Street. The best you can really hope for is becoming a landlady of
a backstreet boozer, but that’s only if you’re prepared to marry someone 20
years older than you and overlook his philandering with the barmaid.
Meanwhile Sinead, in a misguided attempt to
protect her unborn child, is rejecting her chemotherapy in favour of a plant-based
alkaline diet as suggested by her new BFF Stef. To throw Daniel off the
mung-bean scent she even has Stef call him up pretending to be Flora’s nursing home. Which is pretty sneaky for a woman who
you just know has never chucked a sickie in her entire life. Why Sinead is so
keen to take the advice of some hippy she’s just met over that of medical professionals,
(you know the ones that actually do this for a living), who have already told
her that the chemo won’t harm her baby is beyond me. But then I demanded total
sensory deprivation plus back up drugs the last time I had a filling, so maybe I’m
not the best person to ask.
Over at number one Nick has called round to
try to talk Simon out of joining the navy. Despite his lack of parenting
experience Nick does actually manage to talk some sense into Si, who grudgingly
agrees to finish his A-Level’s before leaving for a life on the ocean
wave. Nick has cleverly used a tactic which neither of Simon’s actual parents
seem to have considered which involves just speaking to him in a calm, measured
tone rather than constantly picking a fight, getting drunk, burning his home
down or copping off with the babysitter. Amazing.
Feeling rather pleased with himself Nick goes
round to Leanne with the news. It pleases her so much that she deems it
deserving of a bottle of wine and an afternoon bunk up. I did think that both
of them had jobs but clearly the economy in Weatherfield is so stable that they
can both skive off with no one batting an eyelid. In their passion they both
ignore the sound of the door-buzzer being repeatedly pressed by Elsa (fair
play that would have put me right off my game). The soon-to-be-ex Mrs Tilsley
had overheard Leanne boasting about Nick whilst buying a bottle of wine from Dev’s. If only they’d stayed sober for
their afternoon delight!
In other news Gina has an internet date with
Ian, (mid 40’s, grainy photo) who turns out to be none other than dodgy Duncan.
Of all the bars in all the world…
Meet you back here at 8.30pm!
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