Good evening. I am back from India and I am here tonight but will be missing next Friday as there is no episode. I also feel an apology is due for this review and I will add a little more about that at the end of the article.
Christina tells Lucy she is her grandmother - plainly giving the game away when there was absolutely no need to drop her key ring. Lucy shows Christina a video shot when she was having fun. Christina has to admit to Sally what has happened and inevitably the two fall out completely. In the background we see Richie whisper something into Rachel's ear which obviously causes the latter deep concern whilst Richie continues to play along with the jokes and video which Lucy is recording; the news was not worth upsetting Lucy but Christina interprets it as the excessive abuse which Richie was administering to his wife, Rachel, and vows to ensure he never leaves his prison walls.
Someone please give a credible reason why Alya is working on Marco's appeal in the cafe? I assume the office set is not available but frankly any solicitor working with legal papers in public probably ought to be struck off. Also what is there to appeal? He was driving, it was a getaway vehicle and he was already tagged. Sorry but I cannot see Alya even contemplating wasting give minutes on it when the practice is financially weak (or at least it was the other day). The Barlows celebrate the Adam/Alya engagement in the Rovers which enables Sean to comment that Ken Barlow is not merely a good head of hair. We are promised an amazing wedding following the proposal being in Urdu. Ken gets the compliment from Sean after suggesting to Daniel that he takes the land outrage into print for the Gazette. I wonder if the Gazette has any young attractive female journalists who would like to know more?
Idris who either has money or no money depending on how the mood takes writers is suddenly interested in Underworld and proposes changing the name when at the bar in the Rovers to Carla to provide a new marketing push. Carla gives him short shrift and no doubt there will be another complex interplay coming to this spot soon. Carla makes it clear that Idris will never be in her boardroom which of course is like a red rag to a bull.
Along in the prison (and why is Richie not there?) Gary, cellmate Marco (what a coincidence) and officer Ross are all matey out in public (above) where Ross is boasting about his anticipated dinner but Gary seems to have his doubts especially when Ross makes some private comments to Gary concerning Marco. We are shown Gary having deep thoughts (yes I find it hard to believe too).
Idris who either has money or no money depending on how the mood takes writers is suddenly interested in Underworld and proposes changing the name when at the bar in the Rovers to Carla to provide a new marketing push. Carla gives him short shrift and no doubt there will be another complex interplay coming to this spot soon. Carla makes it clear that Idris will never be in her boardroom which of course is like a red rag to a bull.
Along in the prison (and why is Richie not there?) Gary, cellmate Marco (what a coincidence) and officer Ross are all matey out in public (above) where Ross is boasting about his anticipated dinner but Gary seems to have his doubts especially when Ross makes some private comments to Gary concerning Marco. We are shown Gary having deep thoughts (yes I find it hard to believe too).
I have been hugely negative today and apologise to those on screen, the directing and support teams. Apart from the scene with the Barlows in the Rovers the storylines lacked the warmth, the understanding of living in Weatherfield which ought to drive the programme. Giving Christina a daughter we never met; a grand-daughter whom it is implied is hiding something; Ross who clearly is hiding what happened with Cassie and yet both Gary and Fiz are onto him; why should we care about Marco?; what has happened to the builder's yard with Gary locked up? This is a personal view as ever but I wonder if someone could turn down the drama a few notches and tell the stories please? Comments welcomed on Twitter or whatever Elon has decided it ought to be called.
Written by Carmel Morgan. Directed by Penelope Shales-Slyne.
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