Much of tonight centred around Jenny and Johnny who is sleeping in the spare room and to whom Jenny is not talking. She heads off to Audrey's for a trim and on emerging her hair looks just the same as above, although Scott compliments her on her new look and also gives her some marital advice reckoning that Johnny is a good 'un - and that he should be given a second chance. Once home she tries to get Johnny to talk - but getting him to open up is more difficult than most oysters. He obviously has a secret but when he might explain it to her the beer delivery turns up (odd seeing that they are not selling much at present) - Jenny goes to see to check it off. Scott visits the Rovers later and he chats with Jenny and Johnny. Scott is all sweetness and light and suggests he and Johnny have a chat in the back room.
Abi has promised to attend a meeting with Peter but Deb - Kev's sister insists on cooking lunch and wants to get to know Abi. Deb does the "are you good enough for my big brother?" and gets the answer (above) that Abi and Kev don't do complicated! Except that Abi's phone keeps going off as Peter is obviously trying to track her down. Abi goes for a walk and hopefully makes the meeting.
Yasmeen is recovering - the operation has gone well and it is clear to Alya that she sounds like her old self. Geoff has his comeuppance coming. When their paths cross later Alya spells it out for Geoff - he will have nothing and no-one left in his life (above). This seems to weigh on Geoff's mind as when the vacuum cleaner annoys him (has he cleaned up all those red crosses yet?) he gives it a right going over. Breaking inanimate objects rarely achieves very much!
Billy is not sleeping well as he is worrying about Todd. Stupid vicar - do you think Todd has even given you a second thought? Sean at least has an excuse - he is trying to get information for the absent Eileen. Sean has been told about a website where they have information on bodies of unidentified people - whilst they are chatting (with added Dirk in the background above) a new body has been reported found in the canal. No, of course it is not Todd - he will be living the high life somewhere having a face transplant.
Daniel is chasing the will o' the wisp - but Nicky is not taking his calls. We see Daniel at work in the solicitors' office (Tracy is Bertie sitting). When Adam comes in Daniel tries to get a half day, fails and is sent to the Bistro to fetch a takeaway so they can work over lunch. Whilst waiting for pulled pork and mash (I really can't think of anything less appetising) Nicky comes in to find out why her £500 date 'Baz' is keeping her waiting. Daniel offers to double it - before he knows how much it is and Baz tells her to get lost. Raymundo asks them to take the argument outside as the Bistro has just been refitted! Nicky seems most concerned about her feet (above). Baz is not paying - he thought he had sophisticated arm candy and calls her a dirty scrubber. For reasons which are unclear a police car comes around the corner as she threatens Baz with her high heel shoes. Nicky tells Daniel to get lost for Bertie's sake.
Scott and Johnny are chatting. It appears that Scott knows about Johnny's troubles in recent years. Scott reckons that Johnny's first thoughts on seeing Scott was "How the hell did that lunatic hunt me down?." So, something happened - but given what we know of Johnny's history he cannot have been that difficult to hunt down. No doubt all will be revealed on Monday. He claims (above) that he has no idea what Scott wants - but he is looking pretty worried about it all.
Tonight was clearly the first half with the second half following on next week on Monday, although earlier on in the virus period I was reviewing second half episodes. Which means at some point we have had an odd episode. Perhaps the BGT week of 5 episodes has knocked it out of kilter so to get back on track we are having a full hour on Friday 11 September when I will be back on duty.
Written by Mark Burt and directed by Audrey Cooke.
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Continuity went badly wrong with Jenny’s hair. Before she went for her trim it was straight, after emerging from Audrey’s it had been blow dried to a nice bouncy style but a little later she had her hair up and different clothes.
ReplyDeleteThe other workers must be fed up of Sean. A notice on the factory wall says only 2 people are allowed in the rest area at a time yet Sean is always there with one of his many visitors that just wander in.
Haha yes I've noticed that! The factory seems to be more of a drop in centre where people can have a cuppa and natter. All we ever see of the place is the break area!
DeleteIt seems Carla and Peter, Jenny and Johnny, and Paul and Billy are all on the rocks. Who's going to be the first to join Adam and Sarah in Splitsville I wonder? My money's on Billy and Paul, not that I'd be sad because I've never bought them together.
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame that all we ever see of couples on the show nowadays is when they're arguing or about to break up. Have you noticed that despite running a bar together Jenny and Johnny rarely appear in the same scene together?
Carla and Peter, despite being hugely popular, have fallen to the wayside and have become boring and dull. They're a pair of drifting alkies now, happy to live at home with their parents and work for peanuts despite once both having owned successful businesses.
Wish Corrie would start investing more in its couples like it used to because how are we meant to care about these relationships if we never see them and only ever see the bad bits?
If Geoff had unwound all of the cord on the vacuum cleaner it wouldn’t have pulled the plug out. Stupid man!
ReplyDeleteLOL @ 18:12! I was actually saying while Geoff was doing the hoovering, 'Unwind the rest of the cord, you plonker!' LOL X
ReplyDeleteThere are too many storylines that I’ve lost track of what’s going on. Everything feels so mismatched and disjointed. They introduce a storyline then drop it (where’s Geoff’s storyline gone? And Oliver’s?). It doesn’t help that there are so many deadwood characters clogging up the airtime. I’ve been watching since 2010 and never have I known Corrie to be as bad as it is now.
ReplyDeleteWhat’s happened to the businesses of the street? They used to be a staple of the show. The factory’s been ruined with it’s hideous makeover and change in management – why couldn’t they have left it how it was with Carla in charge? What have they done to Carla’s character? And why have they got some random bloke running the bistro? The bistro worked best with Nick at the helm.
And don’t get me started on the living arrangements. Eileen’s house used to be the only Tardis on the street but now every house has at least ten people living in it! If that’s not a sign there are too many characters, I don’t know what is! It's become a joke, not remotely realistic at all.
Also can someone please explain to me why the likes of Gemma, Chesney and Gary are leading the show when iconic characters like Tracy Barlow, Carla Connor and Jenny Bradley have been left to gather dust? What is going on???
This decline I speak of has happened in the last couples of years when the new producer took over. I don’t want to point any fingers but it’s obvious where the problem lies. Is Ian MacLeod deliberately trying to run this show into the ground? Because all he’s done since taking over is shove Gemma in our faces, given her quads, turned Gary into a pathetic villain, ruined beloved sets with horrible refurbs, given us teen drama after teen drama, introduced a load of pointless characters, and given us uninspiring love stories like Sarah and Adam. Ugh, enough already!
A new producer is needed asap.