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May 4 2014
Maddie’s one of those characters dividing opinion on Coronation Street. Some people love her and some people hate her. Even Sally has a hard time knowing how she feels about the girl. One minute she’s trying to get rid of her from Sophie’s life: “And don’t have a fight with yerself on the way home!” and then the next minute, she’s giving Maddie another chance because she can see Sophie cares very much. Mind you, Maddie doesn’t make it easy for folk to like her, that’s for sure. She gets arrested this week when she takes her little brother Ben away from his foster parents only to have the social worker and a couple of cops hunt her down and take her and Sophie to the cop shop when they find Maddie, Sophie and Ben hiding in Mary’s motorhome. Sally’s upset that Tim’s taking sides, and it’s not the side she wants Tim to take. Tim’s agreeable and open to Sophie and Maddie being given another chance, and although that’s what Sally does in the end, it’s too little, too late for Tim. He’s fed up to the back teeth of being told what to think, what to feel, what to wear, what to say and he calls Sally a snob. Yes, Sally. A snob. He then heads upstairs muttering and comes back downstairs with an overnight bag and tells Sally he’s off. Well, that’ll teach her. I do hope he comes back soon though, he and Sally are one of the best things about Coronation Street right now. I’m finding it hard to be cheerful watching the show just now, there are too many storylines dragging on for too long.
Speaking of which, Maria spots Marcus back on the Street and gives him what for on the doorstep. Tyrone finds her, they head back to her flat, she cracks open the wine, knocks a bottle to the floor when Tyrone says he has to leave and then he gets back to fed-up Fiz who’s convinced there’s summat going on between Tyrone and Maria. Fiz’s been baking and has gone and burned the pie but Tyrone’s still wants to eat it when he gets back from Maria’s. “It’s burnt,” Fiz tells him. “And it’s cold.” “Yeah, but a pie’s a pie,” notes Tyrone and a nation of pie-eaters could only nod and agree. Well, he did in our house anyway.
Another relationship I’ve had enough of this week is the tiresome triangle of Leanne, Nick and Kal. Leanne sleeps with Kal and Eva finds them all loved up in the flat the morning after the night before. But Nick wants Leanne to go to the flicks with him and little Simon, and that’s what Leanne does before she dumps Kal and tells Eva she’s decided to stay single.
One relationship bubbling along nicely though is Sinead and Chesney, love’s young dream on a cheap sofa. Chesney buys Sinead a new frock, it’s orange, bright orange, with bits cut out and it’s rather tight on the bits that are left. It’s a frock the likes of which Liz McDonald would wear, and therefore it doesn’t suit Sinead one little bit. But as Ches has bought it for her, she puts it on and they head to the Bistro, only to find Katy and her shiny hair wearing the same bright orange cut-out frock too. Sinead gets drunk, Chesney takes her home and shows her a picture of the dress he wanted to buy for her before being talked into the orange fright frock by Steph.
The bromance of the Street, of course, is by far the brightest star in the Weatherfield sky this week. Yes, it’s Lloyd and Steve. Steve starts training for the Weatherfield 5k fun run to raise charity funds in Hayley (rest her soul) Cropper’s name. But he tells Lloyd he’s not doing any training, he’s just drinking beer and eating pies as normal. Well, a pie’s a pie. Lloyd continues drinking and eating and swerves any training as he thinks Steve’s doing the same so he’s not best pleased when he find Steve limbering up in lycra in the backyard at the pub. “You Judas!” he says.
And that’s just about that for this week.
This week's writers were Susan Oudot, Mark Burt, Damon
Rochefort and Debbie Oates. Find out more about the Coronation Street
writing team at http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html
Glenda Young
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Glenda Young
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