Evening Corrie fan’s it’s Kelly here with your Friday night review. You’re actually quite lucky to get a full review tonight. I turned the telly off at 8pm and started happily tapping away before realising we’re back to an hour. <whisper> I think I preferred the 30 min slots.
Anyway, I digress. It’s morning in the Webster/Franklin household and Abi tells Debbie and Kev that she is going to catch up with Seb. As she goes to shout up the stairs for the non-existent Jack, Kev tells Debbie that he plans to take her on a trip of a lifetime to Australia so that she can see the twins. Ever the buzzkill, Debbie tells him it’s a bad idea.
After failing to get in touch with Seb, Abi then gets a text reminding her she has a hospital appointment. She books a cab and Peter turns up as the driver, overseen by Mary. Minutes later Debbie sees Seb and Mary at Dev’s. Seb tells her that he has a job and is on his lunchbreak, whilst Mary tells him about Abi driving off with Peter. On hearing this, Debbie immediately decides they’re having an affair. Jeez woman I hope I never get accused of a crime if you’re on the jury!
Now I quite liked Debbie when she first turned up again. She seemed like another of the feisty, opinionated women that Corrie does so well, but this obsession she seems to have with catching Abi out is really starting to get on my nerves. A few episodes ago she was telling her she admired her honesty, and now she’s decided on the filmiest of evidence that she’s having an affair. She of course doesn’t think to just talk to Abi and goes straight round to tell Kev about ‘the affair’.
Elsewhere Sean is having a massive sulk that Billy went public with the Todd search in the Gazette. Given that Sean is completely narcissistic I don’t imagine his huff has anything to do with Todd. It’s more likely because he has a collection of 230 selfies that he’s been saving ready to use for just this sort of occasion and is miffed that Billy got in first. For reasons never really explained, but probably linked to my last point, Sean gets Eileen on a video call. Billy and Sean update her on the search but leave out the part about Todd possibly getting on the wrong side of some gangsters. I hope this isn’t the last we’ll see of Eileen for another four months.
Meanwhile Geoff the hideous waste of organs is still prowling around looking for his missing money. He returns to the solicitor’s office to search again, telling Adam that Daniel had already said it wasn’t there. Then having no luck, he accosts Alya on the street, accusing her of stealing it out of his jacket pocket at Speed Daal. Later, on the phone to Yasmeen (out of hospital then?) she questions what Geoff was doing walking around with £5 grand in his pocket. Hmm we’re all wondering that Alya. What is H-Woo up to now? Paying off a witness? Absconding to Blackpool? (it’s a good place for spousal abusers to meet their end!)
It doesn’t take long for the mystery of the missing money to be solved. Daniel goes to visit Nicki in hospital and, telling her she can now give up sex work, hands her the envelope of cash. After initially saying she can’t take it, she comes round with very little persuasion. I feel like there is all a bit too much coincidence with this. Is Nicki all she seems? Could Geoff have been her violent punter? Later, a suspicious Adam tackles Daniel about Geoff’s missing money but Daniel denies all knowledge.
In other news, Michael is delighted when Tianna (unseen of course) calls him Daddy, while Grace seems less happy about it. And Tyrone and Fizz have a baking competition and each sabotage the other’s efforts. I thought a few weeks ago they were worried about getting boring and middle-aged? I mean I’m not suggesting they both buy skateboards and get tattoos but, baking?
And so back to the almighty mess caused by Debbie and her big gob.
After dropping Abi off, Peter goes to see his sponsor Howard and confesses he’s finding not drinking hard. He returns to the Street at the same time as Abi and they innocently walk into the Rovers together to be met with the grim accusing faces of Kevin and Carla.
They both try to convince their partners that there’s nothing going on, but Abi is forced to admit she did make a silly pass at Peter. Both Kev and Carla storm off. Abi follows Kev and tells him that Peter was a mistake and it’s him she loves. She begs for another chance and he agrees they should try to sort it out.
Peter doesn’t have it so easy. Carla accuses him of always looking for the next damsel in distress. When he tells her that he was with his sponsor, she accuses him of using all the same excuses he used the last time he cheated on her and broke her heart. Even when he does convince her that he’s not having an affair she’s still hurt that he couldn’t be honest with her about his booze struggles. Feeling under pressure Peter blurts out that he forgave her when she slept with Jordan (dodgy bloke from the squat). Carla is naturally furious that he would bring this up and tells him to leave.
Honestly Debbie, if you break up Carla and Peter just because you couldn’t keep your gob shut, I’ll be round there myself with some gaffer tape!
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Okay, Okay. ITV confirmed they had to return to the hour-long episodes on a Friday night due to clashing with the BBC soap EastEnders which is now the last of the British soaps of the night on a Friday evening as of at the moment in some ways, as hence that ITV are showing a International Football match with England and Iceland in the coming weeks which may affect Corrie and ITV have already confirmed a few England International Football matches in the coming two months as it was said in their '2020 reboot trailer' but didn't mention Corrie or Emmerdale.
As with the Monday and Wednesday episodes remain unaffected, with EastEnders's only slot is at 8pm on Mondays, well I think we're all happy with that, but soap watchers get to switch the channel over when they do it with ITV's other soap opera Emmerdale of a Tuesday and Thursday night which is now usually Corrie's current two days off and a third day off - Sunday as of now, which they did have extra episodes on that date from 2008 to September 2017 and it hasn't appeared since, same where Emmerdale once stood alongside 'Corrie on Sunday nights, EE's only attempt for the Beeb on Sundays was on Valentine's Day 1999, New Year's Day (usually on a Sunday) and Christmas Day (usually on a Sunday) and March 2008, but as of now currently in 2020 occupied by Antiques Roadshow, Attenborough documentaries, Strictly results, His Dark Materials and Doctor Who have now vanquished this slot, ITV did try it with Jekyll & Hyde and Beowulf (sadly both axed) then The Durrell's became a pre-watershed family drama hit to Sunday evenings until it ended last year.
Corrie's only time ever on a Sunday was already on Christmas Day, giving the years in fact to follow 1988, 1994, 2005, 2011, and most recently 2016 as we're due in for another Xmas Sunday episode in 2022.
Corrie did have a regular slot on Sundays for a while, I think possibly mid 00s. I liked that arrangement most of all, half an hour, 4 times a week.
As for Debbie, well she's just the last of a long list of these sort of misunderstandings that Corrie writers seem to love. It's as predictable as the person who's being talked about turning up just on time to hear some secret, like Paul recently when he overheard Billy talking about Kel.
Yasmeen is back, yay! She does look very well for someone who recently had heart surgery!
I wanted to like Abi’s storyline because I like the characters involved but the way it’s being told is lazy and predictable. Repetitive scenes of Abi and Peter stood two metres apart in the ginnel with Debbie looking on suspiciously doesn’t make for the most compelling viewing, does it?
Also, when have we seen evidence of Carla and Peter growing distant? Where has this rift suddenly come from? They seemed to be getting on quite nicely, from what little we’ve seen of them. All feels very slapdash and a contrived effort to drive a wedge between them and push Peter closer to Abi.
That being said I really enjoyed those scenes with Carla and Peter. Her accusing him being a sucker of a damsel in distress and needing to feel needed was harsh but spot-on and Peter’s comment about Carla sleeping with the squat guy was wrong but totally the sort of thing Peter would say in the heat of the moment.
I don’t care about Abi and Kevin but hope Peter and Carla can work through this and this doesn’t lead to another predictable affair.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have one couple happy on this show?
Ugh, so frustrating...
Felt awful for Carla last night. Peter really messed up. Does he blame Carla for what happened with Jordan?
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