Evening Corrie fans, it’s Kelly here with your Friday night review.
Sarah and Adam are planning a romantic date as apparently, it’s Valentine’s Day tomorrow. Which would make it Sunday in Wethie world, no? Ahh but wait, Max has a meeting at the school which means that it's Friday, yes? Please don’t tax me like this Corrie, it’s already been a tough Wordle week.
Anyway, starting with Friday world - Max is panicking that he will get expelled and sent to a pupil referral unit. Whilst Daniel is wrestling with his conscience as to whether he should confess to pushing the little toerag down the stairs. Mr Osbourne finally decides to come clean, but is saved by the bell (see what I did there) by Mrs Crawshaw deciding not to expel Max.
In other news, when Elaine plans a movie night for her and Tim, Sally attempts to sabotage it by telling her that ‘Terms of Endearment’ is his favourite film. It backfires when the big soppy sod loves it. Also, Kelly plans to move in with her mum but after Gary tells her he feels protective of her, decides to stay.
And in the parallel Sunday world, loopy Lydia continues her reign of terror. I don’t wish to victim blame, but I can’t help thinking that Sarah is unduly aiding her in these bunny-boiling endeavours by consistently being dumber than a box of rocks.
Case in point: Adam comes round to the factory to give her a new set of keys. Does she put them straight in her bag like a normal person? Of course not, she leaves them on the side of the desk to swan off doing god knows what.
Lydia of course nicks them and lets herself in to snip the heads of roses, photograph Adam’s credit card and send herself a saucy message using their IP address to look like it’s come from him. Then when she sees Sarah, she persuades her to join her down the pub where she dupes her with a sob story about having her heart broken by a married man. And before you can say Glenn Close, she’s bought herself some sexy underwear (presumably with Adam’s credit card) and left it for herself at the factory as a Valentine’s gift.
I mean I’ll give her this, she’s a multi-tasker. She managed all this despite having a full-time job and being a single mum. Don’t even get me started on who’s looking after the poor little tyke while his mum is creeping around other people’s flats, drinking in the Rovers and letting herself into the factory late at night. Is he working in the same underground salt mine as Harry?
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Ta-ra for this week.
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I thought the new year was promising to restore the spirit of the cobbles. Your reports, Kelly, and those of your fellow hardy and I sense despairing colleagues, just confirm it’s the same paper-thin, going nowhere story-lines. I’m now three months into my non-Corrie cleansing treatment, and nothing is luring me back to the sofa…..though I am still a fervent reader of the blog, so please keep torturing yourself for me !
ReplyDeleteWhy can’t Kelly just tell Gary and Maria she’s been going to see her mum? If she explains to them how she feels surely they should know not to interfere and also at least they know she is not just wandering the streets.
ReplyDeleteI thought that as well. If anything I think they'd help her with her mum. Strange
DeleteYes Jan, I'd like to know why Kelly doesn't tell them she's seeing her mum.
ReplyDeleteWhy would Sarah leave a set of keys on the office desk?
It's not as if she was distracted by an important phone call or anything and forgot to pick them up.
I too, wonder how Lydia has the time to creep round.
I'm finding the new Max tedious and the ongoing feud between Daniel and David is dreary and unnecessary - as Daisy said, let it go and move on.
it was nice to have a break from the Ted/ Craig story and nice to see Kirk and Peanut for the 1 minute they were on screen.
Why and how (keys?) did Lydia return to Sarah & Adam's flat to remove the roses and card?
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ReplyDeleteLooks like Lydia had time to visit the locksmiths to obtain an extra set of keys!
I don't understand this crush that Sarah has on Lydia...too fast too weird...it obviously makes her husband uncomfortable when she's around (who wants their ex around?)
Max is a ticking time bomb, and sadly I fear that he is going to continue his vendetta
REALLY enjoyed the scenes with Sally, Steve, and Peter....loved the movie watching scene...almost felt like Corrie.
The kids? Yawn..........
The thing with Lydia is that she's very accomplished and knows exactly how to copy a set of keys, quickly get in to the ex's home, do all the clever stuff with credit cards and mobiles. True, she was helped a lot by Adam conveniently leaving everything on display but even so. My guess is she's a serial bunny boiler. Adam's not the first by a long chalk. I don't think her son is Adam's as he would probably be older, and Adam would be a lot more nervous around her if he thought it was a possibility. Unfortunately, there's no chemistry between any of these characters in this storyline.
ReplyDeleteWell said Humpty. Though I struggle to forget Rebecca Ryan as a delightful child in early series of Shameless!
ReplyDeleteThe weepy movie scene was brilliant classic Corrie. Serves Sally right for meddling. Why can't she understand Elaine wanting to make up for all the years she missed with Tim? They shouldn't be competing to care for him. Paula Wilcox is a treasure. I can't see her joining the cast permanently, but occasional visits would be great.
You'd think Sarah would be more careful with her new keys given the reason for her needing new keys.
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