Regular readers
(hello mum!) will know I've been disillusioned with Corrie over the
last couple of weeks but this week, I'm pleased to report, Corrie's
starting to pick itself up again. It's mainly due to some wonderful
dialogue we've had this week but also very much due to the return of
Dennis Tanner. Yes,
Corrie's original bad lad has returned to the cobbles. He turned up
in the homeless shelter where Rosie and Sian are helping out Ken's
grandson James. Anyway,
this is the world of soap so it doesn't take long for Dennis
to be given a wash and a brush up from old mate Rita, who recognises
Dennis and takes him in, gives him a shower and a shirt and a suit
and takes him to the Rovers for a drink. Emily and Ken remember
Dennis too but that doesn't stop nosy Norris from sticking his oar
in asking awkward questions about what Dennis was doing in a
homeless shelter in the first place. More interesting, surely, would
be to know what Rita was doing with a whole set of men's clothes in
her wardrobe, but what do I know?
Anyway, bringing back
Dennis was a master stroke by Corrie. He shared a tender moment with
Rita, telling her how Elsie died. At 81 years old, she was in a red
sports car in the Algarve when she died in a car crash, holding
hands with Bill Gregory.
"To Elsie," says Rita, "They don't make ?em like that
anymore." They most
certainly don't.
Over at the Barlow's,
little Amy is deliberately making herself ill by bringing on an
allergic reaction drinking milk. She's doing it so that daddy Steve
comes in and takes care of her, and he's nice to mummy Tracy while
he's there too. Becky's
doing her nut in with jealousy over Steve spending so much time in
the Barlow's instead of behind the
bar.
Elsewhere, desperate
Duckworth tries to chat up Sian and won't back off even though all
his mates tell him that she's gay and Sophie warns him off too. So
when Rosie hears that sister Sophie's upset that Tommy's set his sights
on Sian, she tells Jason they're finished as she doesn't want
anything more to do with his mate. Jason tries to convince
Rosie that Tommy's all right but Rosie knows he's not. She lures
Tommy to her house to get revenge on him and show him up for the
loser he is. He turns up quick sharp, sure he's on a promise with
Rosie and wanders downstairs in his pants. But instead of raunchy
Rosie waiting for him, there's Jason, Sophie and Sian, making a
mockery of his manhood.
Marcus returned to
Corrie this week and wants to try again with Sean. Sean's not sure what to
feel, he's happy to see Marcus but nervous he'll get hurt again.
Eileen sets them up on a blind date where they have a heart to heart
and decide to give it a go as Marcus moves back to Weatherfield to
be a midwife at
th'ospickle.
And finally this
week, in a storyline that looks set to run, John Stape's secrets
start to unfold when Chesney gets suspicious and visits Charlotte's
parents to find out what's going on with Colin/John. Chesney
pretends to be Colin Fishwick's younger brother and is somewhat
stunned to find out that Colin/John was engaged to Charlotte Hoyle
and there's pictures of him with her. It's left to nosy neighbor
Clifford to fill in Chesney on some more disturbing facts about the
death of Joy Fishwick and a nasty pattern starts to form in
Chesney's confused head. John panics when Charlotte's
parents come calling to visit him as Colin and he rushes out of the
house leaving Fiz and baby Hope alone, takes the Hoyles back to
their house and, well, you'll have to tune in next week but let's
just say he's done something nasty to them down in the basement.
Ooh, it's going to be
fun when it all comes out in the wash.
And that's just about
that for this week.
This week's writers
were Jayne Hollinson, Julie Jones, Damon Rochefort, Ellen Taylor and
John Kerr. Find out
more about the Coronation Street writing team at:
http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html