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Corrie!

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SalemShadow · 23/08/2019 10:31

I have watched Corrie for the last 20 years but cannot stomach watching it anymore. It is boring, tedious and predictable and everybody on the street has shagged everybody else. They need new writers desperately!

It is like watching paint dry and no way as good as it used to be or AIBU?

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WindsorDuchess · 23/08/2019 10:47

2 episodes of classic Coronation Street are shown on ITV3 during the day, I have it on series link and watch it in the evenings instead of watching modern Corrie. Its my absolute guilty pleasure.

I did watch them both for awhile but you can really notice the lack of quality in the new episodes.

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SalemShadow · 23/08/2019 11:20

Absolutely that is what some of my friends do. They watch the classics instead of the modern version. The new episodes are boring beyond belief!

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kennyjenny · 23/08/2019 11:24

I was just saying this to someone the other day. I have watched Corrie since I was a young child so 25+ years and can say this is the worst it's ever been. It's so dull and predictable. I would say the same thing as emmerdale. I've actually just started to get in to hollyoaks Blush it's actually really entertaining.

Rachelover40 · 23/08/2019 11:45

I still watch Corrie and generally enjoy it. It's quite natural to find a long term soap a bit tedious after so many years but usually something happens to capture the imagination again. I also watch Classic Corrie when I can and like that but I don't think it was any better then.

SapatSea · 23/08/2019 12:45

I watch Classic too. I've given up on watching the current ones, just awful.

ScotsinOz · 23/08/2019 13:23

I stopped watching Corrie, Eastenders and Emmerdale in the past year as they were all so boring (and I’ve been a fan since I was a child). It’s the same old storylines and they drag them out for ages (even though you guessed “who did it/the outcome” within the first few days of the storyline). I loved Holloyoaks - you murder someone, two weeks later you’re in court, a month later you’ve served your life sentence and are back asking for your job at the shop. It’s crazy, but they resolve story lines quickly (unlike Eastenders and “who killed Lucy Beale” - we all knew bloody Bobby did it probably before the writers did lol). Unfortunately we no longer get it in Australia (thanks Foxtel).

Lifecraft · 23/08/2019 13:27

Maureen Lipman is carrying it single handed.

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SalemShadow · 23/08/2019 14:30

Oh yes Maureen Lipman is brilliant. If she's got any sense she will leave that show. Netflix completely ruined Corrie for me. The TV on there was such a high standard and then I switched on the ITV soaps and I was bored rigid. I switched off Corrie after Maria was going to shag the last young fella on the street she hasnt shagged as been everywhere else. Also, when she was pointing a hairdryer in the mirror doing a scarface impression. It was beyond cringe-worthy and I felt embarrassed for the actors in it. It has gone really boring.

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Cheeseoncrumpets · 23/08/2019 14:36

Watch old episodes of Corrie and Eastenders on Youtube and you will see that the difference in quality obvious. Storylines were much more mundane and slower paced, but the acting and overall standard was so much better. Characters had depth and were developed over time and the dialogue was so much better. Now its all so fast paced, I think that the writers dont think that we have the attention span to follow or stick with the slow burner stuff, and the dialogue is often really clunky.

FirstTimeDogParent · 23/08/2019 14:38

YABU, soaps have always been tawdry nonsense.

JustDanceAddict · 23/08/2019 14:40

Haven’t watched it for about a year, don’t miss it. Shame as I’ve watched since childhood, but it’s so bad now. I gave up Eastenders a few years ago now and if I ever turn it on randomly there’s always shouting (turned it in a few weeks ago and Phil was shoved in the garage hole thing for fixing cars! I assume he will re-emerge to live again...

Ritascornershop · 23/08/2019 14:47

Then when Corrie does get good actors it doesn’t know what to do with them (I’m thinking of Dean Fagan, who played Luke - they really only gave him anything of interest to do at the end of his run). Alison King and Chris Gascogne (Carla and Peter) are very good, I like watching them.

PennyNotSoWise · 23/08/2019 14:54

Gemma is single handedly putting me off tbh. Can't stand the screeching, and always speaking with her mouth full of food. Ugh, terrible character. And the whole Quadruplets storyline Hmm

DontCallMeShitley · 23/08/2019 15:02

The storylines are dragged out far too long and some of the actors are terrible now.
I am only watching on catch up as then I can skip the crappy abusive Geoff creep who always seems to play the same role in everything, and Bethany who couldn't act her way out of a paper bag.
And Mrs. Tembe (Lorna Laidlaw) should have stayed in Doctors, she was great in that and awful as whoever she is now, it is really bad.

PennyNotSoWise · 23/08/2019 15:10

And Mrs. Tembe (Lorna Laidlaw) should have stayed in Doctors

That's who she is. I knew I knew her from something, kept saying I'll Google later then couldn't be arsed!

KatherineJaneway · 23/08/2019 15:12

It was always like that.

ShatnersWig · 23/08/2019 15:27

Stopped watching when Emily Bishop left. I see she's making a cameo by Skype for Ken's 80th in October.

Ritascornershop · 23/08/2019 15:40

The quads storyline is ridiculous. I’d much rather have a realistic storyline about two mismatched people having one baby, or how Gemma does or doesn’t finally grow up. And learn to close her mouth instead of having it hang open all the time.

I miss Deirdre, Liz, and Eileen putting the world to rights. I do enjoy Tim and Steve, they’re a good mates pairing.

littlemissdynamite · 23/08/2019 15:57

Sadly I have to agree.

It's plain daft really.

Everybody lives near or on the street.

Everybody works on or within half a mile of the street.

Everybody knows everybody.

Everybody dates people only from the street (or within half a mile!)

Everyone seems to have a long-lost relative who has never been mentioned before, and who gets a job within five minutes of coming into the street (on the street obvs!)

Everyone's family members live nearby.

Everyone is in a relationship with someone within 2 weeks of moving onto the street.

Everyone socialises ONLY at the pub or Beeestro.

When it started (late 50's...) life WAS a bit like this... People DID live close to family, and near to their work, and they did all socialise together, they DID all work at the same place (or one of only half a dozen big employers in their town or village.)

But it's 2019 now, and life is like that for no-one. It's very outdated, and pretty daft really.

I have watched it since 1973 though, and it's like an old friend or family member. I can't stop watching it now.

littlemissdynamite · 23/08/2019 15:57

Edit: 1960 it started... So SORT of late 50s! Grin

WalkersAreNotTheOnlyCrisps · 23/08/2019 15:58

It's been shite for a long time now.

IAmBannedAgainTheBastards · 23/08/2019 16:17

Gemma has gone from cheeky to being a complete slob , her eating makes me heave, I have never seen any adult eat like that. The Gary story ling is ridiculous.
It was so much better when they had simply everyday undercurrents, then the occasional disaster '/affair/wedding etc

SerenDippitty · 23/08/2019 16:20

I went off it a while ago around the time of the tram crash. It used to be really special, it's not any more.

drinkygin · 23/08/2019 16:24

I still watch and mostly enjoy it. Some of the storylines are ridiculous- Gemma and chesney for one. Gemma’s mum!!! Confused absolutely ludicrous, nobody would put up with her in real life. Can’t bear watching Geoff either.

littlemissdynamite · 23/08/2019 19:00

I agree that Gemma is awful. She is a terrible slovenly slob. And she is at LEAST 30! I mean, I would get a 17 y.o. being like that, but she is WELL into adulthood!

And her mother is vile. Completely unhinged too. Walking around near-naked and asking Chesney to join her in bed. FFS, no woman would do that. Ridiculous.

Also the Peter-Carla 'relationship' that is on/off, on/off is so tedious now. And I am sick of so many new characters coming in, being chavvy and/or thuggish, and winding everyone up, then becoming a lovable rogue who everyone loves! Hmm

The Rob storyline with that woman who is conveniently pregnant by him is pathetic, and I am sick of Nick Tilsley played by an actor who appears to a one-trick pony.

I also dislike the new family... (The Baileys..) Very irritating and pointless. And is ANYONE not related to the bloody Connors? Carla being Johnny's daughter was so ridiculous.

Watching Classic Corrie on ITV2 (I think) reminds me how much better it was then (1980s, and 1990's.) And before that obviously...

And most of the old stalwarts and legends have long gone... Elsie Tanner, Hilda and Stan Ogden, Eddie Yeates, Percy Sugden, Annie Walker, Ena Sharples, Albert Tatlock, Bet Lynch, Alf Roberts etc.... (tho Audrey is still there...)

I quite like some characters, like Gail and David and Sally and Rita and Audrey, and Mary and Roy, and Tracey and Steve, and Liz and Maria, and a couple of the young-ish ones like Tyrone, and the new lass Emma (Fiona Middleton's daughter,) But I am not keen on some of the rest of them.

And none of them measure up to the oldies (pre 21st century...)