Happy New Year Corrie fans, it’s Kelly here with your Friday night review.
At the Rovers, Daisy finds Jenny awake at 5am putting her face on, so that her younger lover won’t see her looking less than perfect when he wakes up. Her misgivings are compounded when Leo talks about an NYE house-party plans with his millennial mates. Despite Daisy trying to convince her that she is gorgeous and Leo adores her, Jen worries about the age gap. This is ridiculous for many reasons, for one I’m pretty sure Johnny was about 200 years older than her, but mainly that Jenny is of course a goddess and should probably have temples built in her honour and possibly the occasional sacrifice.
Over at No. 13, Abi is still obsessing over Kelly when Kev decides to deliver the knockout blow of some home truths. He points out while Kelly did start the chain of violence that led to Seb’s murder, Abi put in motion the circumstances that led to Natasha’s death, so they’re kinda quits. My goodness, that was very intelligent and perceptive for Kev wasn’t it. I thought the inside of his head was completely filled with fanbelts and chippy teas? Maybe this is a new Kev? And if so, can he please get a new jacket. He’s been wearing that purple monstrosity since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Things are looking up for Kelly herself. She’s been offered her job at the salon back and is settling into living at Chez Gaz and Maria. This is despite getting stick for spending too much time in the shower and destroying the polar ice caps by Weatherfield’s answer to Greta Thunberg. Just out of interest Maria, have you got rid of your huge gas-guzzling Chelsea tractor yet?
Meanwhile, Sarah and Adam check into their NYE hotel. It’s quickly ruined when an indiscreet waiter tells Adam not to forget his wallet again, and it transpires that it’s the same hotel where he did the dirty with Carla. When Sarah questions why he would bring her back to the scene of the crime, he doesn’t help himself by admitting he booked the hotel because he had a voucher for a spa treatment. I mean I won’t go down the Scot’s being tight route because I’m better than that but... With the moment ruined, Sarah then ups the stakes by telling him she knows him and Lydia were together for six months and, before you can say complimentary slippers, they’re having a full-blown row. Sarah storms off to the Rovers to drown her sorrows with new bestie Lydia, who calls Adam cheap and shifty (hmm does the lady protest too much?), while Adam takes advice from the Street's top shagger, his ageing lothario grandad. When he finds Sarah again, she tells him she can’t trust him anymore, which seems like something of an overreaction from someone with quite a few exes of her own (most of whom are living or buried less than 10 metres away).
Elsewhere, Faye is continuing to badger her friends and family for free driving lessons. She’s got a job now hasn’t she, I don’t suppose it would occur to her to actually pay for some professional ones? At the end of a fairly fraught journey with Emma and Tim she manages to shut her poor dad’s fingers in the car door. She and Emma take him to A&E only for Emma to spot Curtis in the car park. She apologises to him for not believing him over the missing money and with zero shame about his other gigantic whoppers, he makes her feel guilty for not believing him. He then tells her he’s at the hospital for a psychiatrist appointment, but she spies him in the cardiology department up to his old tricks trying to convince the nurse that he’s dying. When she confronts him, he tells her he still loves her, but she realises that she can’t help him anymore and ends it for good. You’re well rid Em!
As the new year fireworks begin, Leo turns up at the Rovers having ditched the house party to snuggle up with Jenny, and Sally gets blotto leading to her getting caught short in the garden and her and Tim pledging to start a healthier lifestyle in 2022.
Finally, Abi sends Imran a text saying she needs to see him urgently and tells him she thinks she is pregnant. Really? A one-night stand in Corrie resulting in an unwanted pregnancy? Well, we didn’t see that coming did we…said no one…ever!
And that’s it for 2021. What are your Corrie hopes for 2022? Mine are for Jenny and Leo to get a happy storyline and him to not turn into a dodgy bloke who’s after her money and for someone to for the love of God give the residents of the Street a crash course in contraception.
If you can think of some better resolutions for the characters let me know in the comments or on twitter @mskelstar. Happy 2022!
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