Corrie weekly update - The Darkness and the Light

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The big story this week has been the death of Pat Phelan. Yes, the Corrie villain’s gone at last. It starts when Phelan takes Eileen away from Weatherfield after he finds out that the concrete pillars on the building site where he’s working need to come out as he’s not done them properly. The problem is, that’s where Phelan buried Vinny and Andy’s bodies. (I thought they were in a lake or somewhere but maybe I’ve missed something?) Anyway, the cops find the bodies, Gary’s arrested because he was on site at the time looking for the gun that Phelan killed Luke with. Meanwhile, Phelan and Eileen are miles away from it all by the sea. Eileen thinks that Phelan is treating her to a seaside break in Whitehaven but Pat has plans, he’s packed his passport ready to scarper to Ireland. Back at the building site, Phelan’s got a mole who’s keeping him up to date with what the cops are doing there. And when he hears that things have turned nasty he determines to sail away to sea in a boat from the harbour. But his plans are thwarted by Eileen who follows him and demands to come with him as she thinks he’s going fishing. They argue at the boat and Eileen loses her picnic hamper, cuts her finger and hurts her foot. Phelan’s concern for his wife stops him from leaving and so he gets off the boat and follows Eileen to the shore. 

Meanwhile, back at Weatherfield’s cop shop, Gary calls in Adam Barlow as his brief. Once Adam knows about the cop finding the dead bodies, he rings Tim to tell him to warn Eileen about Pat, wherever she is. Eileen picks up the message and horror strikes her heart. She tries to pretend everything’s ok and lets Pat go back to his boat, but he knows something’s up and follows her as she tries to escape – all the way along a pier that leads nowhere but the sea. Now, I’m no Miss Marple but I think Eileen made a mistake there.  Phelan rips the phone from her hand, hears Tim telling her that Pat’s a killer and he chucks the phone into the sea. They argue and under the beam of the lighthouse they circle each other where Phelan reveals all to Eileen, that he’s killed not two but four people (Michael, Andy, Vinny, Luke), he boasts, he smiles, he tells her he loves her. She cries, walks backwards to the railings that are rusty, threatening to throw his keys into the sea. He lunges for the keys in Eileen’s hand but she’s too quick for him and he hurtles through the railways to the sea below, but he’s not gone, not yet. He hangs on for dear life to a rope over the side of the pier and begs Eileen, begs her to help him up. Instead she stamps on his hand, over and over, so that he loses his grip and falls to the foaming seas below.  Tim and Liz arrive along with the cops and Eileen’s in bits, in shock, but she can’t tell them what’s really happened to Pat, not yet.
Martin Platt’s brief return to Corrie ended this week when he left son David and headed off to his new life in New Zealand. David puts his plans on hold to emigrate with his dad after he finds out that he needs a visa and things aren’t as straightforward as he might have thought.  There was a lovely little scene in the Rovers when Gail and Brian shared a drink and a chat. I’d love to see him back permanently, it would have bene great to see him interacting with the likes of Kevin, Sally and Gina, his mates from back in the day.

In the hair salon, Audrey gets Rosemary the Clairvoyant to return because Roy and Brian want to out her as a charlatan. However, when Rosemary gest wind of what Roy and Brian are up to, she refuses to perform and walks out. 

Audrey ends up in hospital this week after she gets caught up with a gang of kids on the cobbles, one of whom is Simon, who mugs Audrey for her handbag. She’s in a bad way with a fracture in the Tony Wilson ward (nice touch, ITV) but falls for the hospital’s radio DJ, a really nice fella called Geoff.  He asks her what her favourite song is so that he can dedicate it to her. But instead of Patsy Cline’s Crazy he plays her Shaddap You Face …. which was very funny indeed. It continues in a light-hearted way when Audrey gets locked inside the DJ booth with Geoff locked outside and she has to take over the radio show, dedicating a song to Pauline Urology. Wonderful stuff indeed, even if it was yet another hospital scene.  Anyway, the good news is that Geoff the hospital DJ turns out to be Tim’s dad and turns up at Sally’s house for tea, so it looks as if we’ll be seeing much more of him, which pleases this fan and no doubt will please the fragrant Mrs. Roberts too.

Simon, however, gets a ticking off from Peter and Leanne for his behaviour and he swears he won’t hang around with the gang again, but he does. Meanwhile, Carla takes it on herself to help Simon and after a heart to heart in the factory office, she offers him work experience on their IT systems. I’ve always liked the relationship between Carla and Simon and felt this was done well this week.

Over at the Rovers, there’s a family day to celebrate the pub trying to attract more family custom. It doesn’t really work as holy war breaks out between Fiz, who’s there with her daughter, and Tyrone, who’s there with his. Fiz and Tyrone aren’t speaking. Worse still, they’re at each other’s throats.
Steve gets a surprise in the pub when an old teacher of his, Mile ‘Puddles’ Thornberry turns up. Mike needs a job and gets one quick-sharp working at Streetcars as their new cabbie. Liz likes the cut of his jib and flirts outrageously, which is always good to see. 

Elsewhere, Johnny is too busy with Aidan and Carla to notice that Jenny is getting upset. And getting Jenny upset is not something that Johnny should do. She wants to head off to Spain, to live the life on the Costa that Johnny said he wanted too, but he seems to have forgotten all about it. Jenny asks Liz to have a word with Johnny, which she does, and has to break the news to Johnny that Jenny’s only gone and put down a deposit on a villa in the sun.
And finally this week, no-one seems to have noticed that Eva is seven, yes seven, months pregnant. She can’t feel the baby move and so has a scan at the hospital  (another hospital scene, groan) where all is proved well. Shedding tears of relief, she rings Aidan.

And that’s just about that for this week.  

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Corrie weekly update – If you have been affected by these issues...

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This week on Corrie one of the episodes opened with the announcer telling us that it “may contain scenes which viewers might find upsetting” and it ended with “if you’ve been affected by any of these issues…”  

Whatever happened to sitting back, relaxing, enjoying and soaking up a soap? Sigh. 

Another week with too many hospital scenes. Carla, Aidan and Nicola were all in hospital this week. Carla received Aidan’s kidney and in return she told Johnny she’s going to give him her shares of the factory.  Nicola was also wired up to a machine this week in the Weatherfield Ward after complications with her appendix and bowel. Enough, please Corrie. Too many “dramatic” hospital scenes lose any impact they’re supposed to have and fans are losing the will to care.

However, it’s not all been as dismal. There were some lovely scenes in the hospital when Roy went to kiss Carla goodbye as she was wheeled into the operating theatre and instead of planting a kiss on her cheek, Carla turned her head so that Roy had to kiss her full on the lips. And while Carla was under the knife in surgery, Roy and Johnny bonded over their shared love of her too. A nice touch, I thought. 

And at Nicola’s bedside, Phelan sat with tears in his eyes and told Nicola he didn’t want anything to do with her any more after he found out that she’s been harbouring Seb in her flat. He’s a complicated chap, Pat, as all of the best soap villains are.

Elsewhere this week, Billy’s junkie brother Lee turns up with methadone for Billy’s pain. Billy sweats his way through the week, lying to his friends and being a rubbish dad to Summer who is failing at school because of the carer role she’s forced into at home.   When Sarah sees Lee she’s terrified as he was the one who kidnapped her last time he was on the Street. David takes it upon himself to protect his sister and with the help of his new (and only) mate Josh, the two lads bundle Lee into the back of a van and give him a kicking. It’s a nasty storyline this one and it’s going to get darker too.

Meanwhile, with all the focus on the Connor clan this week and their kidney swap storyline, poor Jenny has been feeling left out after Johnny puts his kids first and her second. Jenny walks out of the flat feeling rejected and over a shared couple of cans of beer with Kev Webster, he helps her get a bit of perspective on what’s going on. This was a lovely scene between two old friends, more please.

Steve’s called on to act as referee between his mum and Eileen after they go head to head in a slanging match about Pat Phelan. Liz only wants to warn Eileen against the man she’s married to but Eileen won’t hear a bad word said against him and the two women fight in the pub. 

And that’s just about that for this week.  
  
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Corrie weekly update – Funeral, Phelan and a Fly Swatter

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This week was Luke’s funeral and his sister Steph returned in tears. But distraught as she was, she let Phelan know that she’s keeping her beady eye on him because she knows he had something to do with Andy’s disappearance. The vultures are circling around Phelen.  Eileen’s suspicious of her husband but defends him to the hilt, so much so that Tim sacks her from Streetcars because he can’t trust her. Tim’s afraid of Phelan for what he’s done to Luke and he moves away from the Street, taking Faye with him. Sally’s at her wit’s end with Tim gone, and he’s not answering his phone either. Sally refuses to believe what Tim says, that there’s that much evil in Phelan. Ah, how little she does know.   In an effort to further bring Phelan down, Nicola tells Gary to suck up to Phelan to get a job working with him at the mill. That way, Gary gets access to the mill where they all know Phelan is hiding something. What they don’t know is that there are two dead bodies (Andy and Vinny) that Phelan is protecting there.

While Alya continues to mourn Luke for longer than she ever dated him, Zeedan comforts Rana who has a few tears at home after the funeral. But it’s not Luke she’s crying for, it’s for her feelings for Kate and she tells Zeedan she’s in love with someone else. It’s left to Kate in the Bistro to tell Zeedan that she’s the one that Rana has fallen for, not Robert, as Zeedan suspected.  Zeedan, who has never touched a drop of alcohol in his life, buys a bottle of Scotch and gets hammered to down his sorrows. Now, the first time I touched a drop of alcohol when I was younger I bought a bottle of Martini when my mam and dad were away on holiday. I had two glasses, danced around the living room then collapsed in a heap and threw up. I have never touched Martini since. Zeedan, however, is made of harder stuff for he swigs almost the whole bottle of scotch and he’s still coherent and able to walk himself up the stairs. I don’t think so, mate.

In order to remember Luke as the gentle, kind fella he was, a fight night is arranged. Ah well. Newcomer Josh is taken on at the garage by Tyrone and sets to arranging the boxing match between all on the Street. Shona is paired up to fight Maria and there’s a wonderful scene where Maria tries to hide her fear, and can’t.

Eva goes to the clinic to have her abortion but Toyah turns up at the last minute saying “I’m not here to tell you what to do with your body…” and then goes on to tell Eva what to do with her body.  And that is to have her baby and give it to Toyah and Peter so they can live happily ever after.  In order to do this Eva knows she’ll have to leave the Street and have the baby somewhere private so that no-one knows the baby’s hers. 

Daniel tries (and fails) to make up with Sinead with his offer of a platic venus fly-trap and then he chats to Carla in the Bistro. Carla’s bored, she wants a plaything and she finds it in Daniel who entertains her under his duvet in the flat. As they leave the flat, they snog and Sinead sees them at it. Later in the Rovers, Daniel and Carla have a drink together, under the watchful eye and jealous mind of Peter Barlow, who’s wonderful in this scene. He snips and snipes at Carla, clearly rattled by her having a fling with anyone, not least his half-brother.  And as Peter’s having a go at her, in walks Beth who, protective of Sinead, also has a go at Carla and Daniel together. It’s wonderful scene, really funny and biting too.

Speaking of Carla, she finally tells Aidan and Kate about needing a kidney donor.  Johnny Connor has been absent from Corrie for a while now and I’m not sure where he is. But Aidan and Kate get tested and one of them will become Carla’s kidney donor. 

THIS WEEK’S HOSPITAL SCENE:  Carla and her kidney when Roy tells her he’s been tested but has proved not to be a match.

Amy and Steve’s digital detox ends badly when Amy says she’s going to the pictures. Steve tells her he’ll pick her up, but Amy’s really at a house party where everyone’s on their phones texting each other, or whatever they do. Steve and Tracy finally find out where Amy is and barge into the party only to find Amy in full snog with some boy from school.  

And finally this week, Gina’s not taking her medication properly and her bipolar condition gets the better of her. She takes on the mantle of chief mechanic at the garage after Sally needs a tyre changed and while they’re there at the garage, offers to do an MOT on a customer’s care. It’s left to Sally to call the woman back and tell her she’ll have to take her car elsewhere as Gina’s not qualified to do it. 

And that’s just about that for this week.
  
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Corrie weekly update – Tinker and Tassels

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Anna’s trial starts this week and first up in the stand is Pat Phelan who lies through his teeth. Second in the stand is Seb, who tells the truth and points the finger of blame at Phelan for telling him to lie about Anna pushing him off his ladder. Will Phelan be found out soon? Let’s hope so. In a wonderful scene in Eileen’s living room, she questions Pat about what he’s been up to and he squirms his way out of it magnificently, but Eileen’s got her gander up now and goes back to visit Anna in jail.

After Chesney and Sinead’s wedding was called off last week, Sinead moves into Maria’s flat. This tiny little flat above the hair salon now houses Maria and little Liam, Kirk and Beth, Craig and Sinead. Chesney, meanwhile, is left on all alone in his house across the road.

PC Craig Tinker’s called to a fracas at Tassels, and that’s not something I’ve ever said in a weekly update before. One of the girls has been beaten by a punter and Craig is aghast when he finds out that Bethany works there too. Not as aghast as we all are, Craigy-boy.  Anyway, now he knows, he determines to keep Bethany safe from harm and her secret, so far is safe.  Bethany then takes it upon herself to keep Gary Windass far from her mum when she finds out Sarah’s considering getting back with her ex.

Eva finds out she’s 17 weeks pregnant. I’m going to repeat that. Eva, unaware for the last four months that there’d been any changes to her body AT ALL, she finds out that she’s 17 weeks pregnant with a baby that’s been growing inside her for the past four months. Did I mention four months? Did I mention how daft this whole flaming thing is? Anyway, all of this means, of course, is that the baby is Aidan’s, not Adam’s. Eva and her new best mate Shona bunker down in the Rovers to decide what to do.

Elsewhere, Simon’s been excluded from school for selling vodka and Tyrone’s kids cut up a load of sample knickers that Sean had sown for Aidan and Alya’s new venture.

By far the best scene of the week was the beer fight in the Rovers when Toyah, jealous of Carla and Peter’s history, pretends to befriend Carla, but then admits to Leanne that it’s all a ruse.  Michelle overhears and chucks a pint at Toyah, who gets soaked not once but twice. It really was very funny indeed, the perfect giggle for a Friday night Corrie in way that Corrie had almost forgotten to do.
And finally this week Gemma wants to do something special for Henry’s birthday and so Liz suggests throwing a party in the pub. She glances over at the picture of Betty on the wall and says it would have been what Betty wanted.  A nice touch, I felt.

And that’s just about that for this week.

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Corrie weekly update - Doppelganger, Bailiffs and a Cinderella shoe

There were some good comedy moments this week, the first being Norris and Colin dressing alike in the Kabin. I liked this a lot until I remembered it’d been done before when Horace worked with Norris and they wore the same clothes, said the same words, drank their tea the same way. And in the same way, Colin and Norris turned up in matching tank tops and ties. Colin reckoned Norris might be his dad and so with a palaver over Norris’ blood test at the medical centre, his DNA is taken but it turns out Norris hasn’t fathered a son. However, there is some good news in all of this. The stolen blood test gets Moira sacked and she swans off to Stoke with Colin, the two of them gone forever, I do hope.

The second comedy moment was wonderful, classic Corrie, the likes of which we’re seeing far too little right now. Sally is in full mayoral mode giving her inaugural speech at a soiree in her sitting room just as the bailiffs arrive to take payment for Gina’s debt. Sally chucks Gina out and she moves in with Dev, sets herself up on the sewing machine and pimps up charity shop clothes for the market. Dev finds out about Gina’s bipolar condition when he reads the headlines in the Weatherfield Gazette. And after threatening to chuck her out too, he then allows Gina to stay. Not only that, but he pays off her debt to Sally tpp, although she doesn’t yet know. What a guy.

Kate’s distracted while driving the bistro car (bistro car?) down the cobbles as her phone rings on the seat beside her. She turns to look at it, sees it’s from Rana and then she smashes into Robert in the middle of the road. He’d ran onto the road to save Joseph from being crushed under Kate’s wheels.  Robert’s in hospital and gets stitches in his back so we’re treated to Yet Another Hospital Scene. What joy.  However, while in hospital Michelle urges him to get the lump in his testicle checked out and lo and behold, the urologist is called, Robert gets checked and diagnosed within minutes. Minutes. The testicle needs to be removed but Robert deals with the news in the only way he knows how. He takes to the casino and gambles, losing ten thousand pounds from the Bistro account.

One other good thing I enjoyed this week was Tracy acting as advisor of evil to Chesney, telling him how to get revenge on Daniel for flirting with Sinead. To see Chesney turning to the dark side is fun, because you know it can’t last, and to see Tracy acting evil by proxy is fun too. More of this sort of thing, please.

Gemma goes to a party that she’s found details of online and she rocks up in her best party outfit. She flirts with a guy called Newt in the really posh house where the party is held. But when she hears police sirens outside she flees, leaving her shoe behind. Newt holds the shoe, will he find Gemma? Well, next week we’ll see him on the hunt for her – and Newt is not just any old guy. He’s Henry Newton of the brewery family. Ooh, this could be fun.

Speaking of Gemma, she and Rita move back into Rita’s flat this week after the dreadful Colin moves out. Rita and Norris take over the Kabin again and back where they rightfully belong.

Elsewhere this week, Phelan pays back his Calcutta flats scam victims almost all of the money they’re owed. But where’s the money come from? Todd’s asking questions when he spots Vinny’s bag as the bag that held the cash. Is Todd onto Phelan now?  Anna tries to negotiate with Phelan and demands to know why he’s framing her. He won’t answer her question and denies that he did this. Anna’s trying to record his words on her phone, but sadly doesn’t get the confession she need. After Phelan poisons Seb further against Anna, she gets taken away by the cops for the attack on Seb.

In the Rovers there was a lovely scene when Angie and Mary finally put aside their differences after Mary finds out from Sally that Angie’s suffering post-natal depression. But the way in which Sally found this out was frustrating and wrong. She overheard Angie’s husband tell receptionist Sean at the medical centre, when Sean asked to know why Jude wanted to make an appointment. That’s never asked, is it? Certainly not at any GP surgery I’ve ever been to. And certainly not in front of a waiting room of people.

And finally, this week in the Streetcars office, Peter logs onto a dating website to show Steve a 3D image of his perfect partner. It’s an image of Tracy, and Steve, as you can imagine, is not best pleased.

And that’s just about that for this week.
 
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Corrie weekly update - Stargazing, stock cubes and shaving cream

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It’s Ken’s birthday and he throws a dinner party, inviting Audrey, Brian, Cathy and Roy. It’s a pleasant enough evening apart from the fact that Brian smells like a stock cube. This is because Amy puts the stock cube in the shower head and Brian takes a shower at Ken’s as there’s something wrong with the shower at Roy’s.  Amy’s stock cube stunt is part of a joke that gets her, Asha and Summer into trouble this week as their jokes get out of hand. They also put blue paint into Roy’s windscreen wipers in the Woody. Summer’s called into the head’s office at school after she demonstrates her artistic prowess by drawing an, er, part of the male anatomy in shaving cream onto a teacher’s car. Summer hangs her head in shame and tells Billy and Todd she’ll never do it again. Far worse is Amy and Asha’s punishment when they’re forced to dance about in front of Cathy and Brian as Boney M tribute group Phoney M.  However, I don’t yet think that the girls’ games are over, not yet, as each of them dare the other one to do something even worse that will leave Summer unconscious next week.

Shona’s ex-fella Dane, father of killer Clayton, arrives and demands the winnings from Shona’s scratch card. When she refuses and David threatens him, Dane locks himself in David’s car with Lily and Max and tells the kids the truth about who killed their mam. There were lovely scenes between David and Max as Max tries to come to terms with the truth about Shona being the mum of the lad who killed his mum. Shona tells David that she loves him and the kids but the truth is that Clayton is her son and there’s nowt she can do about that. And so they split up for half an episode and then get back together again.

With the factory girls still out of work, Beth and Alya buy a sewing machine so that they can do some work at home. Trouble is, the sewing machine they buy is one of the ones that’s been nicked from Underworld by Adam Barlow. The cops are called, Adam and Todd are grilled (lightly but not enough to singe) and Billy’s angry at what he thinks Todd’s involved in. He’s so angry that he takes an envelope of cash he finds in Todd’s office and distributes the cash to the factory girls, anonymously, in envelopes through their front doors. The money belongs to Shona and when Billy finds out it’s hers, he can’t apologise enough but Shona’s happy that the money has gone to the girls as she’d planned to give it to Dane to get him out of her life.

Sean’s now working in the medical centre, taking up the role that Liz has walked out on. She’s working back in the pub, much against Toyah and Peter’s wishes but they’re too scared to ask her to leave. While Liz makes herself at home again behind the bar, Toyah gives Liz all the crappy jobs to do, hoping she’ll get fed up and leave. There’s toilets to be cleaned, barrels to be changed and Liz does it all with a very forced smile. But then Thomas Ridley (of Ridley and Newton) comes into the pub and he isn’t best pleased with the pint that Toyah serves him. Is Liz involved in this in any way, I wonder? A cheeky smile most definitely played around her lips while Thomas was in the pub giving Toyah hell.

Elsewhere this week, Rana tries to kiss Kate. And while I’ve never been a Rana fan, this week my heart broke for her. She’s got a crush on Kate the size of Salford itself and says that she isn’t gay, she just has feelings for her friend. Kate can’t cope with the news and doesn’t know what to do. Meanwhile, Zeedan tells Rana he wants to marry her and have babies. For the first time ever since she joined the show, I really do feel for Rana and she allowed us to see something going on behind her make-up mask.

Nicola has a big announcement to make when she tells Phelan and Eileen that she’s pregnant – and the father is Gary Windass. Crikey, that was quick, she only slept with him last week.

Phelan’s got more on his mind when he follows Daniel to the nursing home again. Daniel’s hoping to dig dirt on Phelan by speaking to Vinny Ashford, who’s mum is in the care home.  However, it’s Phelan who speaks to Vinny over the facetime, or whatever you call it. I’ve just about given up on all this Phelan malarkey and wish it was over.

In other news this week, Mary’s moved in with Norris. We only know this because it was mentioned in passing, we never saw her move in and we don’t know what their living arrangements are. Does Norris’ house have three bedrooms or is Mary sharing with Norris? Enquiring minds need to know. Anyway, she moves back to Dev’s house when he son Jude with wife Angie and baby George return from South Africa and move in with Noz.

And that’s just about that for this week.

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