FRIDAY 3RD MAY 2019
GEMMA TAKES THE HIGH ROAD Determined that Chesney mustn’t find out about the baby Gemma announces she is going to live with her mum and that she is meeting her today. As she sits on the ark bench waiting Paul begs her to realise that there are plenty of people who love her and she doesn’t have to leave. What will she do? Chesney pulls up alongside her in the car. What will he say?
MARY LEARNS JAN’S LIED TO HER Mary is excited that she has met such a man and tells Tracy she wants to divorce Norris so she can be with Jan. Jan meanwhile tells Eileen he made up the dead fiance story to put Mary off but it backfired. Moira breaks the news to a devastated Mary who tells Jan she never wants to see him again.
SARAH IS SUSPICIOUS OF NICK AND DAVID Nick warns David that Shona overheard them discussing some dodgy money and he needs to put her off the scent. Sarah clocks their furtive conversation.
ELSEWHERE Toyah and Imran move into the builder’s yard flat. Sally finds Tim chucking all his sugary treats in the bin. He assures her that from now on he’s going to embrace a healthy lifestyle. When Geoff tells Alya his plan to treat Yameen to a romantic meal tomorrow evening, he’s annoyed to discover she’ll be otherwise engaged at book club.
FRIDAY 3RD MAY 2019
WILL CHESNEY BRING HIS BABY HOME? Will Gemma listen to Chesney and return to the cobbles? Chesney tells Rita and Paul that he tried to persuade her that he wants to be part of the baby’s life but that she has disappeared off to the estate.
MARY’S CONFUSED BY NORRIS’S SILENCE Mary and Tracy are shocked to find the door of number 3 open and Freda inside. Freda explains that Norris has asked her to sell the house, Mary is angry that he has not contacted her. Freda gets out an ashes urn and puts a photo of Norris next to it.
DAVID SHUTS DOWN SHONA’S SUSPICIONS David reassure Shona and Sarah that neither he or Nick are up to anything dodgy.
YASMEEN ACCEPTS THE CHALLENGE OF GETTING TIM FIT When Yasmeen suggests Sally should bring Tim to Speed Daal for a healthy meal, Sally’s disparaging, convinced all curries are fattening. Yasmeen vows to prove her wrong. Geoff’s put out when Yasmeen scuppers his plan for a romantic meal with her own plan to have Sally and Tim round for a healthy curry. Sally cheers Tim up when she reveals that he might not be able to eat sugary snacks but plenty of sex is good for him.
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ReplyDeleteOh joy - more Gemma.
ReplyDeleteThat's not me watching then.
Jan is ‘roativ’?, is this some strange Polish word for a man who is soon to be revealed as a nail bar slave trader?!
ReplyDeleteWhy should we care about Gemma? Axe her and her convict brother.
ReplyDeleteIt’s obviously all down to the scriptwriters (Jonathan Harvey, do your best!), but I think Gemma will evolve into a main character over the years. And, unlike too many on the Street, she can act!
ReplyDeleteTotally disagree with you David, I don't think she can act at all. Awful character played by a mediocre actress.
ReplyDeleteI've also given up watching - due solely to Gemma Winter.
Dolly Rose Campbell is a very good actress She is nothing like her character Gemma. That's the distinction and how the character of Gemma is written
DeleteThink it was supposed to be romantic not roativ, David. Came direct from itv, I have no time to proof read these, sadly.
ReplyDeleteGo Gemma Go!! If you call shouting and screaming good acting then it isn't for me. Just find the character simply annoying.
ReplyDeleteMy point entirely. She is a very good actress and once the scriptwriters start to recognise this, and her potential, anbd build her character, I will be proved right. Think how Sarah Lancashire, Katherine Kelly and Suranbne Jones started......
ReplyDeleteIf the actress is good then she's done a great job of hiding it. I do blame the mediocre scripts she's been given too but a lot of what takes away from her character isn't likely to have been written out for her to do.
DeleteShe's the one who thinks the fastest way to show her character is unpolished is to eat with her mouth open and have an idiotic expression on her face. She hangs on to that way of being Gemma even when the script gives her an opportunity to play with more subtlety.
So her acting has made bad scripts seem even worse than they would have been with an actress with more range.
Sarah Lancashire and Suranne Jones were in Corrie before these endless episodes swallowed up available time to improve performances. Katherine Kelly, a fine actress, was a nightmare by the end of her Corrie stint. Becky slobbered over Steve and threw herself about the set. These larger-than-life comedy performances are great on stage but just too much for the small screen. Actors don't have the time or probably the inclination to review their performances. The producer should make it mandatory for them to watch an episode to see how they come across to an audience.
ReplyDeleteSigh...I feel as though I should be writing an obituary for my fave program.
ReplyDelete.......
I've watched Corrie most of my life and I'm so disappointed in the direction the show's taken. The extra episode a week is almost a chore to watch.
Instead of developing characters the ptb keep throwing new characters that we don't know and don't care about (or in Gemma's case..do know and can't stand).
Corrie has lost it's charm....gone is our backstreet boozer to make way for the Bistro and now Speed Dahl....gone is the everyday normality to be replaced by Americanized programing..Blech.
Rest in peace old friend...Thank goodness for Youtube and endless hours of fantastic Corrie...RIP xoxoxox