Classic Corrie 6! Leanne’s not a hero - she lied; Linda and Alison will be brides; and Martin’s got a bit on the side

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Let the 00s begin…

'He's a nice man' - yes Gail (little do you know)!

I assume everyone gets the same ads...Saga equity release is probably not the best product to advertise just now.

I’m really looking forward to the Richard Hillman storyline kicking in properly. One of the best Corrie eras of the 21st Century.

Yeah I’m also looking forward to the Richard storyline. I'd stopped watching by now the first time round

Poor Sarah 😔 I remember Jane McNaught (the producer at the time) got a lot of stick for doing too many ‘issue’ based storylines, but you can see how someone like Sarah could easily have been sucked into something like that.

I’d forgotten the whole thing about Matt having cheated. Claire McGlinn is also a better actress than I remember - maybe because I didn’t like the character.

Watching the Sarah/Gary story is really disturbing. I couldn’t place ‘Gary’ so googled - married to Linda Lusardi ; Sam Kane. Thought provoking for back in the early 2000s

The story with Sam and toyah is a bit depressing. Sam is portrayed as a really nice guy all the time but clearly can’t cope with a relationship without any sex, even though they’ve seen seeing each other for 5 mins and she’s just been raped! I don’t like the pressure he’s putting on her and how she’s worried she’ll lose him

Christ that whole episode was depressing. The way Sam is “gently” pressurising toyah into sex, that Matt cheated on his wife with her best friend after she’d been raped, and the paedo being after Sarah!!
What a portrayal of men, although probably fairly realistic 😔

They are a rotten lot. At least Terry Duckworth was plainly horrible!

True! It’s the “nice” ones like Sam and Matt that I find the hardest to watch really. And I wonder if soaps would portray this stuff in the same way now. Sam isn’t being portrayed as bad, everyone in the soap understands his point of view but it’s making me really mad and I want to tell toyah to dump him

I’m a few episodes behind, but the scene with Janice and Toyah where Janice was insinuating Toyah needs to give Sam something to keep him interested.. I could t believe it! Way to be a supportive mother after all she’d been through. Is that really how women thought 20 years ago??

I had a big argument with my husband earlier about Linda Lusardi, and whether a lot of male opinion towards women was heavily influenced by topless tottie in the Sun.
Poor Sarah Lou.

Was there a missing episode today? I set it to record but its started with Sarah Loo sitting in the back of an ambulance and 'gary' on a stretcher. It doesn't match up with the last one, which was sarah loo quite happy talking to 'gary' on his sofa.

mine didn’t record at all today but there are 2 'repeat' episodes I haven’t seen on Tuesday morning

Mine recorded without a gap but yes you’re missing an hour long ep where it went wrong for Sarah

God Gary is creepy. And then poor Bethany gets groomed by Nathan she’s a teenager!

Its a bit grim just now, with Toyah, Sarah and Wayne and Charlie. Thank goodness for Richard and Gail,that seems a nice, happy relationship which might go places 😀

Wayne is a fab little actor, I love watching him interact with Roy and Hayley. They should bring him back all grown up to be pals with Roy

They did bring Wayne back briefly didn’t they? He was a policeman or something like that and came in to the cafe for a cup of tea.

I think Wayne came back not that long ago as (maybe) an environmental health officer or health and safety or something like that.

Oh did he?! I should really pay more attention!

Oh yeah was he giving the cafe its hygiene check or something? But sadly they obviously hadn’t stayed in touch as he didn’t know Hayley had died : (

And wasn’t he dodgy or something? Definitely something funny about him when he came back - it was around the time of the factory roof falling on Rana

I remember David Platt being a good little actor, but not this good! I’m loving every scene he’s in 😁

I think Martin and Sally smacks of a storyline shortage for both characters.

I remember being horrified by Martin and Sally at the time. And I still am now!!