Remember that lovely Marcus? Sean’s ex-fella? The midwife?
The gay one? Well, he’s not gay. Or maybe he is. Or maybe he’s
bisexual. Or maybe he’s confused. Or maybe he knows exactly
what he’s doing by going sub-duvet with Maria and it’s us poor
fans who are confused. Or maybe Marcus is just greedy, who
knows?
What we do know is that Maria’s dumped Jason and Marcus has
dumped Aiden and Marcus and Maria are now officially an item,
a couple, a pair. Jason is in bits, Sean’s in bits and we, the
viewers have taken strong positions on what Marcus should, or
should not, do as a gay man. I hate this story and it deserves
all the criticism it’s getting from gay quarters. For me, a
lot of it has to do with Maria, the dullest woman ever in the
history of Weatherfield. She can’t give this story the spark
it deserves. If Marcus had fallen in love (his words, not
ours) with anyone other than Maria we might have felt
something for Marcus, gone on his sexual journey of cobbles
confusion with him, but we haven’t, oh no.
Speaking of dull, it’s the 5 a side football match between
the men of the Rovers Return and those from the Weatherfield
Arms. Too much sniping between landladies fell flat when it
should have fizzed and Barry Gutbucket, the Weathy Arms
goalie, ensured that the Rovers men lost the game.
However, all is well in Weatherfield over at Ken and
Deirdre’s boudoir of passion, or as I like to call it, their
house. They’re all smoochy and loved up after Wendy flamin’
Crozier resigns from the Board of Governors and gets out of
Ken’s life and Deirdre’s hair. Mrs Barlow celebrates with a
bath: "I dropped off at one point and got me Grazia wet!".
Lewis is turning on the charms with Gail in what she thinks
is him being nice to her but is really him getting his revenge
for her part in the Audrey saga last week. Gail even buys
back, at a considerable sum, Lewis’ father’s watch he tells
her he’s had to pawn as he’s skint. He’s lying of course but
Gail is too simperingly stupid to know. However, this
storyline did see Gail’s dad Ted Page (remember him?) get a
mention. Where the chuck is he? Bring him back now!
And that's just about that for this week. Remember, you can
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