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Best news of the week was that Carla returned to Weatherfield. She’s still not right and is on heavy medication. I want to invest in this storyline, I really do. I love Carla. I love Peter. Mental health and psychosis is an issue worth exploring in a TV show that reaches millions. But it seems Corrie has got it all wrong. Carla gets a daily visit from her case worker. Daily? This would not, and does not happen. I could go on, but I won’t. Suffice to say, it’s otherwise great to have Carla back even if she does offer her share of Underworld to the factory girls.
Geoff steps up his campaign to control Yasmeen this week. There’s a break-in at Yasmeen’s where her jewelry and a framed photo of son Kal are stolen. She’s beside herself with worry but it’s Geoff who’s staged the burglary and he’s sold her stuff. Not only that, he tears up the picture of Kal and chucks it away. Oh, Geoff! Then in a bid to be “helpful”, Geoff rings the insurance company, insisting that Yasmeen is too frail to do it herself, and wouldn’t you know it, he’s only gone and given the insurance company his own bank details. He laughs it off to Yasmeen as a silly mistake he’s made. She says it’s all right, she trusts him. Oh, Yasmeen! To make matters worse, Geoff encourages Alya to move out so that there’s just him and Yasmeen at home, where he can control her to his heart’s delight. He’s a nasty piece of work.
Sean got punched in the face this week. I rewound the scene three times to watch it. He’s hit by a bad lad called Marley, a friend of Paul. Paul wrongly thinks that Sean called the cops on him after he was seen buying headphones from Marley in the community garden. Sean jumps to the wrong conclusion and thinks Paul nicked the charity box from the medical centre. He tells this to Moira and she’s the one who called the feds. Anyway, the police end up at Marley’s house and he’s not best pleased because he’s got drugs in the house and he blames Sean for sending the cops. Of course, Sean doesn’t see who hit him and he’ll likely blame Paul next week.
Poor Audrey has an angina attack this week brought on by the stress from David and Nick fighting. I seem to have lost track with this storyline. I remember Nick nicked Audrey’s cash, and now there’s a whole load of loose threads that are unravelling before me and I have no idea what’s going on. Gail calls a family meeting where everyone talks over each other – this was fun – and she holds up a china ornament of an old-fashioned woman. It’s her ‘talking stick’ and she refuses to let anyone speak unless they’re holding her lady. A lovely scene, fun and dramatic. And then Nick and David are hauled up in court for a breach of the peace because Gail forced them into the same room as Audrey – and the brothers end up in jail. Can explain this story to me in ten easy words? Answers on a postcard please.
Maria wants a man and so Emma helps her set up an online dating profile. But while Emma is out of the room, Maria completes the information herself and adds that she likes to “Netflix and Chill”. Apparently, this is some sort of invitation for men to send pictures of themselves in the nuddy. She really should have wrote “Horlicks and A Nice Episode of Murder She Wrote”. Mind you, there was a good scene when Bethany and Maria reacted to the images received on Maria’s phone. Meanwhile, as Maria searches for the next notch on her bedpost, Dr. Ali makes eyes at her and she can’t even see that love is right under her nose. Or just across the bar at the Rovers.
And that’s just about that for this week.
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This week’s writers were Ella Greenhill and Chris Fewtrell (Monday); Sam Holdsworth and Carmel Morgan (Wednesday), Jonathan Harvey and Alasdair Morrison (Friday). Find out all about the Coronation Street writing team at Coronation Street Blog: Exclusive: All Current Corrie writers online
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I was horrified to hear Moira say she had called the feds. Are they in the USA? Young folk may now use this term, but Moira isn't the type.
ReplyDeleteOn Wednesday Peter was adamant that Carla should not by left alone for a second, by Friday she had been to the police station, bistro and who knows wherelse by herself.
ReplyDeleteOn the subject of Moira, the acting is cringeworthy how are we supposed to take her for real?