It's Monday, so the Theo who's appeared like Windy Miller out of the Camberwick Green musical box
is Moody Theo. Todd somewhat idiotically shows him a new pamphlet that Nasty Noah has printed showing Danielle and "me kids" as being a traditional family and Moody Theo disappears to be replaced by Meltdown Theo, accompanied by the Hollyoaks-cam. He eschews a Bistro lunch with Todd to smash up the builder's yard. Gary, somewhat surprisingly given his last employee was Mick, is quite forgiving of Mr Silverton's antics and takes him for a pint, later offering to beat up Noah for him. Nice to see a bit of Gangsta Gary back - he says of Theo that "he's a good man", which we remember was Gail's plaintive remark about Joe, a man the Windasses brought to the brink after refusing to pay him for his work, back when they were the most feared family of Weatherfield. Anyway, I'm sure nothing will go wrong!
It's a real shame that Aadi has had to leave the show to get a chunky storyline. I've enjoyed these last few weeks with him front and centre and I will miss Adam Hussain. Dev is sending him to be The Fresh Prince of Mumbai with Vikram, somewhat forgeting that Vikram is is Hotten now. Will Adam H turn up in the Woolpack?? Aadi has both a good day and a bad day as Amy professes her love, or at least lust, for him and they have some afternoon delight whilst her parents are out, hiding their assets, and quibbling over their divorce. But at the same time, Lauren has dobbed him into the police re: the LSD spiking, which I have to say was more Brody's fault than Aadi's. Lauren should've been less lazy and poured herself a new drink! Anyway, Lauren's verbal assault on him makes Amy change her mind about her childhood friend. It feels as if nice Aadi is suffering the suspicions of women who have been abused by other men.
Meanwhile, Jenny is hanging around the Kabin, eating a sherbet dibdab and making eyes at men, like it's 1989. I'm pretty sure that series regular going on a date with a guest actor that leads to them getting together with other main character has been done before (Beth/Kirk, Sally/Tim) and so it is as George, resplendent in a natty new shirt, meets his app date Sammy in the pub, who only has eyes for Glenda as they realise they were BFFs back in primary school days. So it can't be long before we have Jeorge or maybe Geonny? I think they'd make a fun couple.
Oh and after an abortive life drawing class with zero nudes, Carla says to Ryan she's going to propose to Lisa, so this'll be either the first sapphic wedding on t'cobbles or it'll all go t*ts up when Lisa finds out that Carla's been visiting Logan. By the way, what's the male equivalent of a fag hag? A lezzie bezzie? I think that's Ryan, and I'm here for it.
Rachel Stevenson - on bluesky
