Welcome to another Wednesday Weatherfield round-up and to catch up on the latest goings on, on Coronation Street.
Tonight starts with the continuation of Lauren's absence from the cafe following her pervy pass at Roy. Also in the cafe, Peter is riled at Stephen’s admission to Lou, with Peter clearly in the doghouse with Carla following the stolen watch fiasco. Why Peter would steal a watch, and why a watch would be worth £15K I have no idea, but Carla back at Underworld's helm can only mean that Reid’s days are numbered. Peter's also now onto him which means it's looking ever more likely. However with Peter due to leave the show soon, could he end up going down for it? I digress, I’ll leave that for another review.
Back to tonight’s offering. Cringe-inducing ‘singing’ aside*, tonight’s stand-out moment was the return of Dame Maureen Lipman, the baptism of soap legend Claire Sweeney onto the cobbles, and Tyrone’s parentage truth being finally revealed, after something like 20 odd years.
What. A.Treat! those scenes at number 7, (following the Bistro confession) were ridiculously high-quality, and the living room setting sold the scene for me, a claustrophobic fly-on-the-wall viewing of this family fall-out; loved it! Having been privy to the press day over a month ago, introducing the former Brookside legend, I knew tonight was the night for it, but having seen no preview scenes, the dramatics topped anything I could have envisaged. Roy’s involvement was also a clever move, and it blindsided him from Monday’s Lauren drama, leaving the wayward teen to admit her pass at her boss to her former beau, Max. Tonight's narrative did make out as though Lauren would be leaving in a wave of embarrassment, but with no black taxi insight, and reconciliations all around, it concluded with her stealing the salon keys and asking Roy for his job back.
Meanwhile, with Carla back at Underworld, she arranged another meeting with Lou tonight, and Stephen attended on his own! The stolen tie-pin strand of this murderous story arc may be more Wagatha Christie than Agatha Christie, but you can't fault Lou’s dog-eared attempt at solving her ex-partner's murder, unlike Jenny who has forgotten all about Leo. Upon meeting Stephen at the Rovers, Lou is quick to dispel any new business ventures and tells Stephen she knows about the stolen tie-pin and suspects he's stolen it!
*Although I don't like small people singing, Glenda in circus attire certainly made up for it!
In other news, Hope’s revealed as a Slytherin (of course), Ed and Ronnie argue over their new business venture, and Carla tells 'roid rage' Ryan that he’s boring! Ryan then decides to have a sarnie with Alya, who is anything but boring!
I thoroughly enjoyed tonights offering - what did you think?
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Ryan, I reckon you are starstruck!
ReplyDeleteIt’s fine for actors to ‘age up’ when playing older characters, as they are acting after all, but Claire Sweeney is a young 52 when her character would need to be at least 57 (I’m guessing) as it has been established that Tyrone is 40. The actors playing Audrey, Gail and Nick are also far too close in age but I suppose that makes the case that we get used to it over time, particularly if we accept the pretext of teenage pregnancy etc.
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