Coronation Street Episode Review Friday 21 October 2022

Greetings Corrie fans, it’s Kelly here with your Friday night review.

So, I’m imagining that this is how the Summer pregnancy storyline went down in the Corrie writer’s room:

Writer 1: Right, I’ve got a great idea...accidental teen pregnancy!

Writer 2: But didn’t we already do that with Sarah-Lou, Katy, Faye and Amy?

Writer: Err yeah but…stay with me…this time we add in a mildly creepy Christian couple who want to buy the baby.

Yes, happiness sponge Summer is up the spout which has given her a whole new pot of misery to add to her already over-flowing ones of diabetes and body-image issues. This is exactly as tedious as it sounds so to jazz it up, enter a couple who have appeared from nowhere, (and for some reason can’t just go through the normal channels of adopting a child legally), who offer to pay her to have the baby. And as if this doesn’t trigger more alarm bells than a clown running through an alarm bell factory, they then tell her that they think it’s God’s plan. Amazingly, Summer thinks this is an option she should consider.

Meanwhile, over at Weatherfield nick Bernie is still protesting her innocence to a disbelieving officer. She gives them Fern’s full name, telephone number and fesses up about the speed awareness course but is told that her doppelgänger can’t be found. Given Weatherfield police’s track record for charging the wrong people with crimes, I don’t fancy her chances. Michael Myers could turn up at the station with a severed head and a signed confession and they’d probably still say they were pursuing other lines of inquiry. To make things worse, when she is released neither Gemma nor Chesney believe she’s innocent. Dev says he does, but I think that might just be because he’s very randy and fancies a bunk-up.

In other news, Daniel asks Daisy to move in with him. She’s a bit uncomfortable about living in a flat that holds so many memories of Sinead, so hints to him about them moving into the house which his mother gave him what seems like years ago and which was never mentioned again. Ahh Daisy, Daisy, Barlow men are not known for their capacity to listen to women. Maybe deface one of his poetry books with the words: ‘Why the AF would I want to live in this pokey little flat when you’ve got a house going begging, you massive berk’. Subtlety is not an option here.   

Also, Leo’s dad, Teddy, turns up at the pub just as slimy Stephen is trying to crack onto Jenny and says that as no one has heard from Leo it’s time to call the police. And in other cover up news, Sam is taking advice from Psycho Hope on continuing to write to Harvey and conceal it from his dad.

Finally, after Summer and Aaron have spent a good 10 minutes in the café pondering their baby predicament, Summer arrives back to the flat to find her three dads discussing her future. She tells them that she and Aaron have already decided that she’s going to have an abortion.

This makes Billy pull this face, so I’m presuming he’s not really down with this.

And that’s it for this week. My prediction is that when mildly creepy Christian couple hear about this massive spanner being thrown into the works of ‘God’s plan’, they’ll kidnap Summer and chain her up in a basement for nine months. I’m rather torn over this as obviously I cannot advocate the forced imprisonment of a young woman, but it would be nice not to have to see her mopey face for a while.

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