Corrie

Fair play to them, it was pretty good last week, all the more so for keeping Seb’s death a surprise. They normally spoil stuff like that by announcing actors are leaving months ahead of them actually going. I’m just hoping they don’t have the aftermath of the attack drag on for months now though, we don’t need to see the police arrest half of Weatherfield yet again.

Yeah I read for the rest of this year 😭 hope it doesn’t drag on that long!

She will be excellent. Hope her role us a comedy one as with Maureen Lipman leaving we need another strong female comedy role.

So another Musical theatre star joining the cast in a guest appearance......

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It’s all about Classic Corrie on ITV3 right now. I forgot how brilliantly written (also at times hilarious) the Richard Hillman episodes were.

Although admittedly this week has been bang average with most airtime being given to Sally having a fling with a painter decorator and that bloody awful witness protection family…

Just watched the one from Wednesday. Wow, that scene with Maureen Lipman and Claire Sweeney was brilliant. Wish it was like that more often.

Last night’s episode was a new low for this Jekyll and Hyde year of Corrie. Certainly up there with the bomb episode at the start of the year.

I don’t understand what they were thinking with the Toyah kidnap storyline. The whole thing just came off as am-dram but also so low energy. I like the character but never felt invested in her kidnap and potential death. Extraordinary.

I feel like they’ve done Spider dirty if he really is leaving. What a mess of a farewell story.

The weird thing is they clearly still know how to create compelling scenes. The acid attack episode was incredible, while we’ve had great stuff from Maureen Lipman in recent months too (Cerberus death, the two handed scene with Claire Sweeney).

But tonight really rammed home how stale the direction, and presumably the writers’ room, is right now. The worst thing is Classic Corrie is going through a real purple patch on ITV3 right now so you can’t help but draw unflattering comparisons.

I’ll defend Corrie to the hilt in the face of naysayers but last night was bad, really bad.

Oh and Eileen’s new trim was… interesting.

Along with Claire Sweeney!

Damon Alexis-Rochefort was one of the writers we always get some good humour from his scripts.

Count Spatula!

Just too many prison and court scenes in this. Lets have some of the legendary Corrie humour and pathos. There are some very talented comedy and drama writers who do the individual episodes but the big storylines aren't that good or just suddenly end.