Evening Corrie fans, it’s Kelly here with your Friday night review.
The fall-out from Wednesday’s drama continues the Street. In the Rovers both Peter and Sarah storm out having learnt the truth about Adam and Carla’s one-night-stand. Adam is unrepentant, blaming Carla for coming on to him and calling her a needy cougar. It’s almost like he’s asking for a smack…
Meanwhile Gary goes to see Ray in the Bistro but finds the office door locked and Faye inside pleading with Ray to stop. When the door opens Ray is doing up his trousers and Faye flees in tears. Now Gary is a man with very few talents but one thing he does excel at is mindless violence, so personally I was hoping that he’d rip off Rapist Ray’s Christmas baubles and give them to Maria as a pair of earrings. Instead in an uncharacteristic show of restraint he merely rips up the factory contract. Weird?
Back at the Rovers, Carla finds Peter in the backroom. As their argument escalates, he takes a swig from a bottle of whisky, knowing full well that it could kill him, and tells it’s her fault. Distraught, Carla pleads with him to stop, telling him she loves him and that Adam isn’t worth it. But he’s beyond reasoning and takes the bottle to Victoria Gardens. As he sits on the bench drowning his sorrows, Simon finds him. Poor Si is crushed that his dad apparently cares so little for him that he would drink himself to death but Peter rages that’s it’s all Adam and Carla’s fault. Just at that moment his nephew nemesis appears and winds him up. It’s almost like he’s asking for a smack…
At No.6 Yasmeen is still on the roof, Geoff is still dead, but miraculously the house has stopped being on fire. Yasmeen clings to the roof convinced that no one will believe Geoff slipped, and that she’ll go back to prison. Sally and Tim both get up to the roof (thanks to the fire helpfully putting itself out) and finally Tim convinces Yasmeen to crawl back through the window. This all seems a bit daft. Is there really no one in the whole street who owns a flaming ladder? Didn’t Tim used to have a window cleaning business?
Anyway, once she’s safely off the roof Yasmeen is comforted by Elaine who tells her that her ordeal is over and that Geoff won’t be able to treat anyone else like he treated them. Then Detective Neat Bob turns up to interview her. To Yasmeen’s relief Neat Bob tells her that she’s not being arrested that she believes her story. She’s changed her tune. Wasn’t she fully Team Geoff last time we saw her?
Back at the Bistro, Adam is being an arrogant twit. He bamboozles Ray into letting him have full run of the Bistro for the night and then tries to persuade Sarah to join him there for a drink, some chips and a listen to his music collection (is he 13?). When she tells him where to shove his playlist, he mocks her, telling her she doesn’t know what she wants. It’s almost like he’s asking for a smack…
At Maria and Gary’s place a distressed Faye tells them that she doesn’t want them to call the police. Seething with rage Gary goes back to the Bistro to confront Ray but instead finds Adam. They have a spat with Gary jeering at Adam for having the shortest marriage in history. Adam retaliates by saying he’ll tell the police that Gary killed Rick. It’s almost like he’s, oh you know.
In other news Sam tries to persuade Leanne’s to stay in Weatherfield by reciting a list of reasons why she might grow to like him. Eventually she misses her plane to France but says she might stick around anyway as at least Weatherfield has distractions. Also, Debbie tries to talk Kev round, but he tells her to pack her bags and get out. With nothing left to lose, she meets up with Ray and tells him to do whatever it takes to push the deal through.
Finally, as Adam treats himself to another bottle of wine from Ray’s bar, a mystery attacker creeps up on him and smacks him around the head with a blunt instrument leaving him in a pool of blood and chips. Who could it be? Peter, Carla, Gary and Sarah are all in the frame but I think my money might be on Simon. Simply because it will lead to either Peter or Carla taking the rap for him and then everyone being forgiven. But what do you think?
And that’s it for the 60th anniversary week. I’ve enjoyed it. After the Oliver drama which seemed to drag on for years, we had storylines resolved, villains getting their comeuppance and Ken, Rita and Audrey finally being let out of their underground bunkers to rally the Street and deliver some killer lines. Although I suspect Ken only emerged because he heard that Carla was working her way around all the Barlow men and didn’t want to be left out.
Did you enjoy it? And who’s your top Barlow bashing suspect? Let me know in the comments or on twitter @mskelstar
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I'd quite enjoyed the last of the hour-long 60th anniversary episodes, the pantomime villain Geoff Metcalfe is dead and Adam Barlow being attacked by one of the culprits at the bistro which is similar to rival soap EastEnders with second long-time veteran Ian Beale being attacked last Friday evening, as to Adam's playlist on his fake Alexa had tracks played by Blossoms and Jake Bugg which went towards the end of the episode and next week's storylines see that Rick Neelan's body has been found in the woods and it is game over for Mr Windass, the other notable highlight from the episode, Leanne didn't go to France cos she missed her flight as Sam persuaded her to stay with Nick in Weatherfield as she couldn't able to forgive herself about the griefing of her dead son.
ReplyDeleteNext Friday's episode again is another hour-long edition cos of EastEnders at the later regular time, but tonight for EE fans there was a schedule change at the BBC due to one of the cast members passing away and that was Barbara Windsor - so the ratings board here tomorrow that Corrie may have been the most-watched soap of all week, since they clashed with EE on Monday for the first time since the 1,000th episode.
The schedules for 'Corrie looks like we are getting a Christmas Eve episode this year similar to five years ago and a New Year's Eve episode, both fall on a Thursday this year, but the EE/CS clash returns on New Year's Day 2021, so the last 'Corrie episode that aired on a Thursday was prior to Shona Ramsey and David Platt's wedding at the Bistro on the 7th of November 2019, there hasn't been any Thursday outings since until the Christmas/New Year episodes have extra this year only to EE's 55-min Xmas Day episode, we believe that ED and CS are the first of the two to air on Xmas Day on ITV because of Michael McIntyre and Call the Midwife on the other channel, that makes way for the BGT Christmas Special that runs on until 9.55pm.
Looking at ITV3's schedules, Classic Corrie's last outing will be on the 23rd of December 2020 and i'd already knew that Drama will still be continuing their Classic EE run, but the Classic Corrie run will resume on the 4th of January 2020 at 2.50pm same with Classic ED, as with the 'Carry On films seem to dominate ITV3 each time at Christmas is around-the-corner.
So expect the rest of 1997's episodes to see the arrival of the Battersbys in the New Year, as with the sequence of episodes at the moment looks like Sun-Mon & Wed-Fri are shown each day on ITV3 at 2.50pm, at the moment the sequence of episodes may screw up in the New Year due to a Christmas Day 1997 episode with Mon-Wed & Fri-Sun when we do reach that point, ITV3 did show horse racing two weeks ago on the Friday (well erm this Friday, it moved back to ITV4) and the day before, there was a hour-long Emmerdale that put the sequence of episodes back in place and this week saw ITV3 show two monochrome episodes of Coronation Street from the first episode and the other notably was from December 1970 due to a colour strike.
Agreed, its gotta be Simon. I read he's got a storyline coming so no surprise there.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I was a little surprised at the ending I felt like it was....flat. how many "whodunnit" has Carla and Peter been in? Time for a change I think.
Speaking of, I'm so flaming sick of that pair. I'm sorry, but someone mentioned Peter coercive controlling her and I totally agree. I hate weak Carla, wasn't she dubbed the new "Pat Phoenix "? What happened to her? Peter has always been a wet blanket and always brought her down. She'd give him her 2 cents and walk out the door.
I am pretty sure a lot of fans forgot that Alya hit Geoff with the fire extinguisher. Isn't it possible she let the fire out then used it as a weapon? That would explain the lack of fire...
Excellent review Kelly, well written and very funny. Keep up the good work everyone involved in this blog! And yeah, it's Simon.
ReplyDeleteI’d love it to be Carla.
ReplyDeleteMy prediction for this storyline is that Adam won’t die, but Peter will. It’s been heavily foreshadowed with characters constantly reminding us that if Peter drinks again, he’ll die. And if that turns out to be the case, Carla will ultimately be in a bit of a loose end as a character because she and Peter came as a duo, so the show will have to think of a new, exciting route to take her in.
It’s highly plausible that losing the love of her life would push Carla over the edge and take her down a dark path, determined to exact revenge on those she believes had a hand in Peter drinking himself to death, which would be a perfect time to reveal that she in fact was the one who clobbered Adam over the head!
Carla’s character needs taking in a fresh direction and I always enjoyed her more when she was mean, devious and scheming. She’s become too soft and victim-like nowadays and her being behind Adam’s bludgeoning would give her that edge back and would be genuinely shocking! But I guess it all depends on whether the show has the guts to take such a risky move with a fan favourite like Carla.
Sadly, I reckon it was Gary - and he'll probably get away with it with little to no consequences like he has with Rana and Rick (and it'll be a total bore-fest).
Nice theory, but if it was Carla, wouldn't she get punished and go to prison, which would cut short the future plans you had for her?
DeleteGary won't get away with it forever, it's written in soap law that all major crimes end up with punishment eventually
Like the blogger, I think it was Simon.
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