Greetings Corrie fans, it’s Kelly here with your Friday night review.
At Chez Baldwin/Platt, Sarah is interrupted mid-hair tonging to take a call on Adam’s mobile. It’s the hotel to say that they’ve found the ladies watch which was lost on his last visit. She of course immediately tells Loopy Lydia, because why wouldn’t you spill the intimate details of your marriage to one of your employees. Lyd’s pulls the old ‘whatever you do, don’t press that huge red button’ trick by telling her not to torture herself by going through his receipts. Lo and behold, before you can say ‘reverse psychology’, Sarah has found that he has apparently spent £136 on lingerie and ordered oysters and champagne in his hotel room.
In other cheater news, Abi is stomping around with a face like a slapped arse having been left Home Alone by Kevin and Jack. She blames Sally for accidentally blabbing on the Bluetooth, but Sal’s in no mood for her self-pity as she’s off to look after Gina (I hope she’s packed her ice-skates!). A guilty Imran overhears them and quizzes Abi about how much she’s told Kev, but they’re interrupted by Toyah ‘I’m a professional listener’ Battersby. Toyah will clearly do anything to avoid doing her actual job at the factory, because she then chases Abi round for the rest of the day until she can finally impart her advice about fighting for her relationship. Honestly, I was fully expecting Abi to be sitting on the toilet and for Toyah to jump out of the bath shouting “I used to be a counsellor”. Eventually Abi calls Kevin and leaves a message telling him that she loves him, but whether this was to save their marriage or just to get Toyah off her back is anyone’s guess.
Meanwhile, Stu fesses up to Yasmeen about swapping Tracy’s wine for cheap plonk. Yas goes a bit holier-than-thou and tells him he needs to make amends. But when he goes round to No.1 with a new case of the good stuff, he finds that Tracy has already complained to the company and got her money back, so all is forgiven. I would have though Trace was a bit more vindictive than that, but apparently not, as she, Steve, Stu and Ed (?) all decide to get rat-arsed together and declare themselves bessie mates.
Over at No.5, Chesney continues his terrible parenting by first stopping Joseph from going on some nature walk that he very politely asked about, and then telling him that his Grandma Linda will have forgotten about him in a month. Nice work Ches. In the café, Joseph forlornly tells Linda that he feels like he’s always in the way and she says he can always visit her in Portugal. I mean stuff the Algarve, if Joseph even makes it to adulthood he’s going to need about 25 years of therapy.
Also, former PC Tinker starts his work at the factory where he’s clearly desperately unhappy and unfulfilled. Most partners would try to show a bit of empathy if their actions had forced someone they loved to give up their dream career, but unfortunately for Craig he’s dating Faye. With a narcissism bordering on sociopathy, she blithely tells him he’ll soon forget about policing. Yes Craig, a glittering career in packing knickers awaits you, but only after you’ve finished cutting the crusts of Milady Windass’s sandwiches and picking out all the brown M&M’s from the bowl for her.
Back at Chez Baldwin/Platt, Sarah gets loopy Lydia round who ‘confesses’ that she is having an affair with Adam and that they couldn’t fight their attraction to each other. When Adam arrives home, Lydia tells him that Sarah has found out about their affair. Naturally bewildered, he tells Sarah that Lydia is making everything up and he knows nothing about the incriminating charges on his card. Sarah throws them both out, telling Lydia to “shut your mouth, your legs and the door on the way out”. Good one Mrs B. Touch of Elsie Tanner.
In the Street, Adam angrily confronts the pound shop Glenn Close, which is overseen by David. He demands to know why she’s doing this and she tells him he ruined her life and this is payback. He unwittingly makes it worse by saying they weren’t even that serious and he doesn’t really remember much about them dating (for a lawyer he’s not very good at carefully choosing his words!). Seething, Lydia tells him she’s going to dismantle his life piece by piece and there’s nothing he can do about it.
And that’s it for this week. I’m off to start a search party for Harry and Lydia’s son (who has been mentioned and seen so infrequently I’ve forgotten his name). Maybe Linda could take them to Portugal with Joseph? They’ll be starting university before their parents realise they’re missing. Join me in the comments or on twitter @mskelstar
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4 comments:
Personally,I have more sympathy for Adam then I do for Sarah who played a simuliar game breaking up Jason and Violet.
Adam had warned Sarah moths ago about Lydia but as in the case with Callum years ago,Sarah refuses to listen to reason thinking she knows 'best' by staying friends with Lydia.
I do hope that when the truth about Lydia does come out [I hope soon] that Adam dumps Sarah once and for all!
Craig should go to art college, as he originally planned before the silly police idea. Or go down the Job Centre. His police experience should be worth something. Packing boxes of knickers isn't his only option!
I'm guessing that Lydia became pregnant after the uni fling with Adam, dropped out of her course so didn't become a lawyer - and Adam didn't even notice. The son she has now can't be Adam's as he is too young. I think this could be Adam's exit story as Sam Robertson has hinted in several newspapers that the role isn't challenging anymore. A blazing car inferno for Adam and Lydia would put a swift end to the storyline. And her son? A forgettable detail.
Exactly! There are jobs beyond Coronation Street and apartments.
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