Steve is doing a very good job of looking hungover/still drunk. Leanne is looking fresh but wants to start drinking again and when Steve turns her down, she goes to buy a half bottle of voddy from Dev's. Maybe she will end up with (her other nemesis) Carla in AA? She tries to make up with Sam but he's not interested, but he does accidentally spill to Abi that Toyah is concerned about Alfie and Abi puts two and two together to make six and a half about who dobbed her in to social services.
Amy still isn't home and Steve and Tracy - who seems to be back permanently now - are worried about her. She rocks up some hours later having walked the 13 miles back home (how would she even know the way?). Aadi wonders why Amy didn't look for the car keys and she explains about Aaron's stag night, but still Steve doesn't 'fess up as to why he didn't answer his phone.
David and Little My Shona are back at number 8 but are still wary of Harvey's gang and don't want to advertise the Platt whereabouts, specifically Sarah's party at the Bistro. She is having a ventriloquist at her bday party even though she's 38 (the Gen Alphas have to Google what a ventriloquist is (surely Voggle?)). Sarah cancels him/her as they've put it on the internet which leads to some slightly bonkers scenes with first Harry 2.0 and then Todd acting as the ventriloquist's dummy. Because it's a Platt family gathering, Shona and Sarah start squabbling over David's actions, who's absent because he's out getting ex-con Andy to help him see off Harvey/Logan/whoever the baddy is this week. It's too late though as someone is pushing a lit rag through the letterbox of the Platt house. The implication here is that it could be Leanne, it could be Abi, it could be the latest gangsters on the cobbles, but my take is that it's David to put Harvey's gang off the scent. I mean, if the gangsters want their money back, it seems a bad idea to burn down the main asset of the people who owe money
Waiting for the fire brigade, Nick, Max and Shona break in as they think Lily might be inside and Nick rescues Toyah but then we see Shona and Max struggling to get through the CGI flames as the house explodes. Shona is out, but Max is not. I guess Cait Fitton's ability to cry on cue is going to get an extra work out next week.
And there concludes Coronation Street's entry for Best Individual Episode at the Inside Soap Awards 2025.
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11 comments:
Got to agree with you, those CGI flames were hilariously bad, totally broke the moment. Why didn't Max leave with Shona? I couldn't see what was going on, it was that dark.
I enjoyed the episode but a number of things baffled me a bit. Why didn’t Nick drag Toyah out of the house straight away instead of fussing over her for a few minutes. It showed Shona and Max trying to get out, then suddenly Shona was out but the door was still stuck. Why does Nick let the kids (Sam, Harry) play on his work computer, they could be doing anything like deleting all his files accidentally? How come at a characters wedding or funeral there are random people, presumably unknown friends, yet Sarah had no friends at her birthday party? On another note Hope was incredibly rude to Roy but he still gave her what she wanted!
The worst episode of the street that I have ever watched. Terrible in all aspects. Acting, Filming, and storyline,
I agree. The CGI flames were - well, CGI! The episode itself was all over the place - but that because of how it was directed.
Why film through apparently discarded beer barrels that show Abi and Debbie distantly across the street?
What's more important- the characters or beer barrels? The direction here seemed to jump about.
Why didn't Amy ring Tracy instead of constantly trying with Steve? Tracy's got a company van, so she could have driven over and picked her up.
Also, Tracy said she was fitting a hidden camera in the kitchen to catch Cassie - what happened to that?
I'm still confused about Chesney having to pay compensation when these things are usually decided in court and not by a police warning or caution.
Where were Yasmeen and Alya when the fire broke out?
As for the fire - why hadn't Jack picked up Alfie? where was Alfie? Still stuck at the child minders?
We don't want the actors to be burnt, do we? CGI is what we need to keep us entertained. I don't know why people like to complain about things, just the sake for it, I guess.
Sarah probably wanted a family do, considering it was not a big birthday? 38 is nothing major to celebrate?
Files can easily be recovered nowadays, no biggie. Do you want realistic storyline or escape the drama, I cannot decide which you want.
Yasmeen were there - if you go back and watch the episode, she asked Leanne what happened but Leanne couldn't answered her so she went to Sally.
Well said. I totally agree. I think everything know it was CGI. What are they to do otherwise? Properly set for to the house? People always quick to find fault, but not prepared to offer an alternative?
Yes, I wondered how much CGI was used. Clearly "no actor was harmed" but surely they didn't actually burn down the house? At least there was some realism - Jenny's collection of replacement clothes etc. Now Sally knows what to do with her incomplete sets of crockery.
Yes, I went on the tour on Saturday - the first one after the fire, the house was visibly damage around the windows and was boarded up. Otherwise looked ok.
I wasn't complaining about them using CGI, I was complaining about the terrible execution of the CGI. Fire spreads from one surface to another, it doesn't just alight on random things around a room then burn at a constant rate without consuming them. It looked amateurish.
My alternatives would be: 1. carefully controlled pyros on set under the watchful eye of a professionally trained specialist, like they used to do, or 2. find someone who can create better CGI than that.
Or better still, Amy should have called Street Cars and charged it to her dad. There would have been e been someone on Switch.
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