I am hoping for a culmination of the Sarah-Adam-Lydia love-liar triangle at some point because even though I do like Adam stomping around, glowering and shouting "Sirrah! Sirrah!" a lot, it's becoming a bit boring. I do wonder why TPTB gave Lydia a pre-teen child when she first arrived on t'cobbles - was it so she would bond with Sarah over being a mum? I assumed it was because Adam was gonna be the baby-daddy of the invisible child, but maybe an intern did the maths and realised he couldn't be unless Lydia gestated like an elephant. But it turns out that he made her have an abortion back when they were students, leading her to drop out of Uni.
Anyhoo, Adam is re-invited to Harry's 6th birthday party and also for coffee, but only for Sarah to tell him she wants a divorce. Bitter, and I don't mean Roy's cappuccino. He sends Lydia a text from Sarah's phone and meets up with her in a shopping centre and tries to record their conversation, but she soon cottons on and deletes the recording. She runs off with his phone, he follows her and she drops his phone over the balcony and Adam soon follows as Lydia gives him a great big shove and then escapes. At least Daniel wasn't at the top of the stairs this time.
Amy, being the child of two business-people, draws up a budget to give to Kimono Ken, to show how she could live on her trust fund if Ken would release Gramma Deirdre's money. Ken is all in, but Steve begs him to reconsider and Ken then reneges on the deal.
In revenge, Amy gets a job in the kebab shop, to Steve's consternation, who points out to Dev that Jacob used to sling drugs along with the chips and saveloys in For Your Fries Only and Dev sacks her, although Tracy then gives her a job at the florist. Isn't this just a repeat of the Asha-Corey storyline of last year? Except that Jay-kub is a reformed character (for now). I wonder if anyone ever told Amy that her mum sold her to Roy and Hayley and that she was called Patience for a period of time? Because that would be a good weapon to ambush her parents with.
The decent PI (not Kenny/Lenny) comes up with some info about Rick and his dodgy dealings and how Gary paid for the wheelchair of one of Rick's victims. Meanwhile, Laura is drowning her sorrows by downing her morphine medication with several glasses of pinot grigio in the pub. Gary helps Laura home and she flirts with him.
In the meantime, Maria has nominated Kelly for Trainee Stylist Of The Year at the North West Hairdressing Awards Of The Year, which is definitely a thing that exists.
Phi(l), after making sure that the rumpus over Hope kidnapping Joseph has calmed down, re-emerges to give Maria some confidential info about the council's quashing of an environmental report about the new bypass. Maria passes this onto the Weathy Gazette but Bernard Barnes overhears Phil(l) and Maria celebrating. Hmm, I wonder if this might backfire at any point? I'm #TeamDerrenLitten in this election at any rate.
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5 comments:
I'd guessed that Lydia was pregnant and dropped out of uni. I thought she might have been on Adam's law degree course so her plans to be a high-flying barrister were ruined. She didn't say that but it might come up later! The storyline is a bit of a mess and maybe there were a number of re-writes when Sam Robertson changed his mind about leaving the soap. Although it's just been announced, the actor probably told the writers a few months ago that he was staying. So, Lydia's exit is eventually prison when all the facts come out.
The shopping precint, with just a cafe, an escalator, and a lift, was totally deserted. Why? It seemed odd. Eith no shoppers, it should be closed, wouldn't it?
It's good to see comedy scriptwriter Derren as Bernard. did he used to write for Corrie before Benidorm? I vote to get him back on the Corrie scriptwriting team! His work is littered with warmth and wit.
Benidorm was fab - of course, Derren used to work with the actor wo plays George - he played Kenneth! In Benidorm, I was moved to tears with Les and the relationship with his son.
I haven't seen the episode yet (being in Canada, a few weeks behind) but I find Lydia's boo hoo story a bit much. It takes two to tango. She didn't have to have an abhortion, she chose to. She can't blame Adam for dropping out of school either, and even if she did drop out, she could have gone back.
Adam is not blameless, thoughtless maybe, but these are choices Lydia made as well.
People are responsible for the consequences of their own choices.
So the reason for Lydia being a 'bunny boiler'was because she had an abortion while in unversity?!
Obivously Adam wasn't ready to be a father and perhaps felt that Lydia was trying to entrap him?
Nick forced Leeanne to have an abortion when they were younger and yet she seems to have forgiven him so why couldn't Lydia forgive Adam.
The writers wooudn't even dream of justification for a female character being stalked so Lydia's stalking of Adam shouldn't be justified either.
You've obviously not been to the Lowry Centre, where it was filmed, although you've described it perfectly. It is exactly that
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