‘Free the Weatherfield One!' screamed the tabloid front pages all those years ago, and Corrie's slices of social injustice continue to this day. I think Stu is innocent here, and it's got something to do with Weatherfield Police corruption, but, and true to Coronation Street legacy - he's going to have to prove it.
Tonight, Yasmeen has a bad dream, a haunting from Geoff (great to see that actor back on screen) as she’s troubled by the thought of Stu being free on license. Roy lends her his ear, and being the rational soundboard he is, he tells her that Alya and Zeedan’s miscarriage of justice pursuits may well be in her favour and for her benefit. Meanwhile, Alya turns detective and consults Adam with her theories about Stu’s police corruption case and confirms Roy’s theory. Again, we have a lot of legal terms banded around, and it’s starting to make me think this is becoming C.S.I Weatherfield. Alya tells Adam that Yasmeen won't budge on her opinion, but she goes and collects Stu from the prison gates, telling him she’s willing to fight for his innocence, by hiring a cold-case solicitor - a friend of Adam. Stu visits his daughter, vowing to clear his name, apologising for the affair, and proclaiming his innocence for murder. Stu then bumps into his ex-wife, who also expresses dismay at his behaviour, but she promises to back off, as long as he drops his case.
On a lighter note: Happy Birthday to Gemma and Paul. Tonight's celebrations were a good excuse for Corrie to get post-covid cast ensembles together, starting at the Bistro, where Gem and Paul share dinner with Billy, Summer, and Aaron, minus the quads - Freda is on babysitting duties. Bernie gave her kids some Prima Doner Vouchers, as she’s a bit brassic, and trying to save for Joseph's back-to-school uniform. Begging Dev for more shop shifts ends up leading to a hilarious misunderstanding between the two of them (he needs 'personal services' aka a house cleaner) and I wonder where their, once highly mooted, romance went too? A slap in the face is by no means funny, and what with Yasmeen's coercive control reminder, I felt some conflicting opinions about that particular scene. However, Dev remains in fine comedic form throughout tonight's episode, albeit a bit grumpy with Aadi and Evelyn. He does end up hiring Bernie as his cleaner though, so maybe there is hope for those two, yet? I love Bernie!
Better luck for Aadi tonight as his flirtatious friendship with Kelly leads to a kiss, a bedroom dalliance, and the giving of his mother’s engagement ring. The ‘Weatherfield Gazette competition’ set-up has been used often in the past (I’m thinking of Mary and Norris) but it is nice to see some youngsters have happiness, unlike the misery festival of Summer and Aaron. This is Weatherfield’s yin and yang storyline process, I guess. Taking the birthday party to The Rovers, Bernie tells Ches and Gemma that she will raise the cash for Joseph’s school uniform. Let's hope it doesn't involve selling wee, again. Later, Dev and Bernie are horrified that Stu is back on the street, so Yasmeen tells him to move back in!
Talking of tried-and-tested plots, the Underworld ownership trope is back tonight and Sarah seems keen on getting Uncle Stephen involved in the management of knickers stitching. If it is a 50/50 ownership then surely Sarah could get another 1% share bought from somewhere (say, from Kirk) and it's done, am I right? I’m not Alan Sugar but I’m sure that's how it works. Carla’s nose is suitably put out of joint by Stephen’s consultancy plans, and she tells Peter and Ken about her suspicions. It's probably best that she doesn't find out about Aadi’s forbidden crush on her (you can't blame the lad!) but she still subs Summer some wages early. Is the stalwart firey factory boss really losing her steel?
Elsewhere tonight, Evelyn and Shona lock horns in a hilarious broken biscuits shop gag, Ken’s still pulling the Rover’s barmaids, and Billy’s heading for ‘Vicars Got Talent’ which, considering his vocal skills and piano playing - it’s about time!
An enjoyable hour of Corrie!
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I have never fast forwarded through Corrie but I had to last night. The dreadfully acted simpering and self righteousness from Yasmeen really gets on my nerves.
ReplyDeleteThe factory ownership situation is a bit of a mess. Carla owns 50% and the machinists own the other half, but it was never treated as a traditional worker's co-op, the implication was that the machinists at the time owned stakes individually rather than collectively. This means that as far as we're aware, Gina still owns shares in Underworld despite no longer working there or living on the street, but the many sales staff who've joined the business in recent years own nothing. Apparently Sarah has a share too, but it wouldn't be any more than Sally for example owns.
ReplyDeleteI think someone needs to remind Dev how his daughter dated a murderer who initally let Kelly take the rap for Seb's murder and that Asha was even willing to be a false alibi for Cory.
ReplyDeleteThen maybe he'll shut up about Stu.
Didn't Joseph's grandma offer to help with school uniforms?
ReplyDeleteDid some fast forwarding myself, but my question of the day is..,with both parents out noshing, who was looking after their four, or is it five..I’ve quite forgotten…children, or are they now old enough to have all left home. And isn’t one of them stone deaf? Can someone enlighten me?
ReplyDeleteFreda was babysitting.
DeleteAs Mr Burns says, The faktry shares are a muddle. Beth didn't want her shares and sold them to Sean, so it's certainly not on a co-operative basis. It's also not clear who has the casting vote.
ReplyDeleteBut of much more interest is how this factory stays in business, and who they're selling underwear to. They seem to be in the business of small volume, bespoke items, yet you would expect them to be making their client's designs, and yet they seem to make their own designs (usually designed by local girls with no experience in design - there's a hell of a lot more to fashion design than drawing a few pictures) and selling them to small, bespoke clients through an over-staffed sales team. What, exactly, is their business model? It makes no sense. Try to look at this from Jo Lafoe's point of view, why is she buying Carla's knickers, and who is she selling them to that Carla couldn't be selling them to directly for more profit?
These are the things that keep me awake at night.
Stone deaf is not an appropriate term. Freda looked after them. It was mentioned on the show.
ReplyDeleteWell, no sooner did I raise the subject when suddenly they appeared!
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