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There's only way to start the update this week and that's with the whole
Ken, Deirdre, Dev and Tracy malarkey. Crikey, where to begin?
Tracey's husband Robert turns up at the Barlows after Deirdre calls him
to tell him where his errant wife has ended up. But when he arrives,
all he wants is his van keys, certainly not his Jezebel of a wife who, he
tells Deirdre, had slept with his best mate. Now that Deirdre
knows Tracey's shagging Dev, she's really not happy. Jealous? Perhaps. Worried
that her secret night of passion with Dev will come out? Definitely… but
out it does come. In the corner shop, Tracey's boasting to Sunita that
she's not like the rest of Dev's girls, she's different. Frustrated and fed-up,
Sunita tells Tracey that she's exactly like the rest of Dev's girls, in
fact, one of his girls was her mother. Tracey takes her pout and storms
straight round to Deirdre where she wheedles and niggles about truth and
honesty before spoiling Deirdre's day when she tells her she knows the truth
about Dev. Cue to the courthouse where Ken is about to plead guilty
to hitting Ade Critchley. Before he goes into the court, he can take
no more of his wife and step-daughter arguing and demands to know what their
fight is about. Deirdre comes clean then Ken gets a conditional
discharge before he gives a speech in court about the importance of being
earnest, honest and how Grecian 2000 helps him no end. But then, oh
wow, we go back to the house where Ken turns the tables on Deirdre. No,
he did, really, he tipped up the kitchen table which was all set with tea
plates where Blanche was going to serve up a pie. Instead, Blanche
went out for a drink after she gives Tracey a big slap:"You nasty mouthed
little madam", and Deirdre a big hug: "You stupid girl". Deirdre
throws Tracy out of the house and straight into the corner shop where Dev
tickles her by the Tunnocks and tells her he'll spend the night reading Shakespeare
to her: "Shall I compare thee to your mother today? Thou art more pouty
and more shouty: Rough winds do shake the corner shop walls, And these bananas
need eating by Friday." And so, Ken and Deirdre are alone in the house
and it's time for the truth. This was so well written, so powerful
that all I could do was write one word in my note book: Fabulous. I had
to watch this episode a second time, it really was wonderful stuff with Deirdre
yelling through tears: "Ken, I doooo loooove yoooooo" and Ken being
all Radio 4 and bitter. He yelled at her, she yelled at her, recriminations
were flung around the living room but never, not once, did Deirdre bring
up Ken's affairs and romances as he hurtled the names of Mike, Samir and
Dev at her. And then Ken left by the back gate, which was odd I thought,
as desperate Deirdre yelled, begged and cried some more.
Much else this week pales into insignificance after the Barlow kit and
caboodle but bear with me and I'll do my best. At the Rovers on New
Years Eve, Fred's happy the punters are spending so much: "There's nowt
so beautiful as the sound of legal tender being crammed into a till."
Toyah's bloke John calls into the flat knowing that Toyah is out.
It doesn't take long for him and Maria to be nekkid in bed and after they've
done it, you know, it, Fiz returns to the flat and catches them both.
Neither Fiz nor Maria have told Toyah the truth yet but Fiz is aghast at
what Maria has done to their mate and wastes no time in telling Maria what
she thinks: "You cow, you rotten cow."
Audrey moves out of Archie's house and back home now that the refurbishment
work has been finished. Although it's clear he'll miss her and the
company, Archie lets Audrey go with the minimum of fuss and the murderous
Richard Hillman has had a pretty low profile this week.
At the café, Ciaran continues to serve up banter with the barmcakes,
friendliness with the fries, ego with the eggs and cheeky charm with the
chips. Roy isn't too keen on having him around, there's the expense
of paying wages for a start as well as the fact he makes Hayley giggle too
much. But when Ade Critchley tries to nick a handbag from one of the tables,
it's Ciaran that manages to get the bag off him and throw him out of the
café after Roy's valiant, but sadly, crap, effort at doing the same
and Roy decides Ciaran can stay. Shelley and Peter aren't happy that Ciaran
is sticking around the street for a bit but in a lovely scene, Roy tells
Ciaran that if he feels his friendship with Peter is worth fighting for,
then he must make every effort to make amends.
So Ade's still holed up in the hardware shop, scrounging food from Sarah
Platt and trying to steal bags from Roys Rolls. Sarah goes back to
school in her bibbly bobbly hat, swishy in her satin and tat while feeling
sorry for Ade who's living rough on the street.
Things are grim at the Grimshaw's as Steve puts their house up for sale.
In an effort to put off prospective buyers, Eileen tells Todd and Jason
to make as much noise and mess as they like, which they do, in order to
scare off the buyers, which they do too. When Dev comes up for
air from snogging Tracy he tells Steve he's prepared to invest in Streetcars
but isn't too happy when Steve tells her the price will be thirty grand.
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda
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