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This week the aftermath of Aidan’s suicide hits everyone hard and there have been some incredibly moving scenes. One scene between Jenny and Johnny had me in tears, it was extremely powerful and well acted too. Johnny, as you’d imagine, isn’t coping with the death of his son and there are many questions that Aidan’s death has left unanswered. Jenny tries to help her husband, tries to reach out to him but he closes down and spends the night on Liz’s sofa, calls Jenny ‘that bloody woman’ and smashes a glass against the wall of their flat. Summer organizes a ‘Speak and Save’ event in Aidan’s name to promote mental health awareness but as yet there’s no mention of his funeral.
However, when Michelle and Carla are clearing Aidan’s things at his flat, Michelle finds Aidan’s will, opens it and reads it. He’s left the factory not to Johnny or Carla or Kate but to Alya. Yup, Alya. I think we can all look forward to that. Not. Michelle tells Carla and Jenny about this and they take the will to Adam Barlow who says he’ll do what he can to sort it out and make sure that Alya doesn’t get the factory. But can the Connor women overturn Aidan’s wishes in his will? We’ll have to wait and see.
Elsewhere this week Seb’s mum Abi is taken on at the garage as their new mechanic after honing her skills while in prison. Also at the garage Tyrone gets a wind-dancing man which doesn’t last long when Rita goes at it with scissors as it keeps banging on her bedroom window. I’m not quite sure what the point of all of this was but it was fun to see Rita getting tangled up in the balloon.
Over at Adam and Daniel’s flat, Sinead thinks about moving in but Flora has other ideas. Flora, you’ll recall, is Vinny’s mum whom Daniel has taken in to live with them as part of his protection of her while he investigations Phelan in his Free Anna Windass campaign. Flora’s mates Doris and Bertha turn up and were quite amusing in a pastiche of Ena, Minnie and Martha. Or a future version of Leanne, Toyah and Eva.
Yasmeen sets to divorcing her cheating husband Sharif and goes on another date with Tim’s dad Geoff. I’m liking this pairing a lot.
Speaking of Tim, he and Steve welcome Eileen back to work at Streetcars with a banner, a packet of her favourite biscuits and a purple sparkle cushion. What more could a girl want?
Meanwhile, Shona’s on the hunt for clues to bring down rapist Josh as David waits it out in prison for his bail hearing or something. I’m never quite sure that goes on in prison and courts and stuff. Anyway, suffice to say that David’s still in the big house sharing a cell with another lad while Shona’s on the streets hunting down a lad who worked with Josh and has nothing good to say about him. Was that lad raped too, Shona wants to know?
After Aidan’s suicide last week Michelle and Robert call off their wedding then call it back on again. Ali says his placement is finished at the medical centre but that he’ll stick around and attend his mum’s wedding. Michelle is over the moon but what she doesn’t know is that Robert’s pushing himself too hard, too far, in his physical exercise and has started having chest pains. Oh ‘eck.
And finally, this week Kate and Rana are in town having a drink with Sophie and Gemma when a lairy lad starts coming on to them and he grabs Kate. He’s chucked out of the pub after Sophie sets off her attack alarm but he follows Kate and Rana back to the street where he pounces on them up a back lane when they’re having a snog. Zeedan just happens to be passing by, saves Kate and Rana from the lad and knocks him unconscious. They see him later being taken away in an ambulance – has Zeedan gone too far?
And that’s just about that for this week.
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5 comments:
I know Zeedan's outburst was a prelude to his exit storyline but, honestly, just running off and leaving the guy was too silly. The looked like a gang of kids playing 'knock down ginger'. Nobody heard the screams apart from Zeedan ... Yet again, characters do the very worst thing possible. Why bother calling the police and stating the facts? Worst of all, one of the party is the local practice nurse. Not even a moment's indecision about leaving someone possibly dying on the pavement.
Why do so many storylines involving the men of Weatherfield include violence? As a decent, peaceful man surely Zeedan's exit needn't be this way. He could have travelled to hone his cooking skills or open another Speed Dahl in a different town.
Is Michelle's wedding is going to take precedence over Aidan's funeral? I'm very disappointed if that is the case since her wedding is talked about more that the funeral arrangements[which I think is in bad taste.].
Since Anna's exit was her going to jail for a a crime she didn't commit,I'm disappointed that Zeedan may suffer the same fate.
I loved the chats in the Kabin about royal weddings and the naming of Coronation Street and the chat between Kevin and Tyrone about today's cup final, again mentioned by Steve and Tim. These would be credible subjects discussed in those types of situations. A much needed lighter side than the numerous murders and hospitalisations that seen to happen in a regular basis on the Street.
@Tilly You're spot on there! This is what attracted me to Corrie in the first place and I've missed it.
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