Coronation Street - NO SPOILERS!! Brian and Mary are doing am dram, Bernie’s caught up in a lookalike scam and questions re: Leo leave Stephen in a jam

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Any chance that storm in Yorkshire could cross the Pennines and get rid of some of the dead wood in Weatherfield?

I feel sorry for Jodie Prenger. This should have been her big (well, bigger) break, and she's walked into a reet dysfunctional mess of a show.

My favourite imagined story in my head is one where Summer and Tears-For-Fears emigrate to New Zealand taking Alkie Dad and Billy with them. (Sorry, New Zealand.)

I can see a storyline where Summer miscarries but has to keep the pretence going as Creepy Couple have paid 10K and she can't pay it back.
Cue Summer anguished face x 1000 and Tallboyfriend hatches a plan to run off together I hope

Wheres Seths mum? I cant even remember her name!

Abby @EachandEveryone , I can't remember where she went either

Jodie prenger would have been great in it years ago when strong northern Women were the backbone of the show, she's wasted in it. She could have been the next Elsie tanner. Now it's just utter crap !!

Absolutely, @lollipoprainbow. How the writers are treating the female characters is really disappointing. Rita cannot do as many scenes as before, and that's understandable. But where's the evidence they are developing the characters of other strong women?

The current Corrie women seem to spend most of their time simpering over men or being criminals and/or brain addled.

Abby - criminal, crap mum, now rehabilitated to fuss over husband and sons
Sally - fusses around Tim
Aggi - also fusses around Tim
Gail - simpers around Stephen
Audrey - putty in Stephen's hands, apparently now suicidal
Toyah - criminal, easily duped by men
Alya - inconsistent personality syndrome
Yasmeen - now seems to have decided to run round after Stu for a living
Shona - oh let's give her a brain injury and make her say oddball things
Eileen - literal bang on the head and personality transplant
Mary - annoying twat in Am Dram now
Wendy Crozier - fawns over Ken
Tracey - suddenly can only talk about scaffolding
Jenny - boo hoo Leo
Daisy - ooh ooh Daniel
Carla - worries more about Peter than herself or factreh
Fizz - wet as a wet lettuce
Summer - lives to please three dads, boyfriend and even boyfriend's crap dad
Gemma and Bernie - who honestly cares

I don't like these new developments. I want characters like Elsie Tanner, Ena Sharples and Bet Lynch! Not literally the same, but strong (in their own ways), complex, independent-minded and real, like woman have always had to be. Annie Walker was hard as nails. Even Emily was riven through with steely determination. Dear Hilda Ogden was wonderfully nuanced.

@AutumnCrow Ena sharples would turn in her grave!!

The 3 dads (actually none) scene was a disgrace. Irl Summer would have stormed straight out. Billy is a pain in the hole, and with his sidekicks added its just an embarrassment.

Also when she barfed in the sick billy didn't even swish round with water !! Urgh

Ah Jason's flat? I thought they meant a magical new flat over the builder's yard where there was an office. Does Toyah still live there, or did she move in with Leanne? I haven't a clue. Yes I suspect that after weeks/months of hiding her pregnancy, Summer will lose the baby, and pretend to be still pregnant. Sigh.

Yep, Billy is dreadful and so controlling. Him having Summer's blood sugars on his phone, insisting on going to the doctor with her and the intervention were awful. With his manner (both with current and previous issues she has had) there is no way she could talk to him about anything or confide in him.

I had to look up creepy Esther to see where I recognised the actress from- she was Science teacher Sue Spark in Waterloo Road.

I find myself just thinking about everything that doesn't make sense and that I expect to come up on this thread when watching Corrie these days rather than enjoying any of the storylines. Even Aaron has been on Mumsnet to ask about morning sickness

Yes she looked familiar

I noticed that - yuck

Yes, and that teatowel she wiped her mouth with needs to go straight in the washing machine ... 🤢

Yes, during the portaloo episode last night it occurred to me that they were trying to make Tracy into an Elsie Tanner-alike. Haranguing people on the street was her stock in trade. 😅

Shona - oh let's give her a brain injury and make her say oddball things

I’m hoping Julia Goulding’s maternity leave will be used as a chance to fix this. Maybe she could have a recurrence of her old symptoms, go off for specialist treatment and come back as the old Shona. Not very realistic, but that doesn’t seem to matter these days anyway.

Very random thought but was there any mention of Sam not getting into Oakhill? About a year ago he was studying/doing practice papers for a scholarship and David said he had his heart set on going there, but unless I've missed something (very possible!) he has gone to Weatherfield High and Oakhill has been forgotten about.

I thought Shona was reminiscent of Elsie Tanner for a while, in the way she speaks as well as how she looks (potentially). I've got Tracey down on my scorecard as an incipient Ena Sharples, with Summer as Minnie Caldwell. #BringBackTheSnug

I don't normally pay much attention when Corrie's on but Tracey's wooden acting did stick out a bit this week, although that could be because her lines were so bad.

I'd have Debbie Webster as Ena Sharples. Summer a good call for Minnie. Mary can be Martha Longhurst.

Ena Sharples was full of the 'you're no better than you should be!' face-to-face rhetoric. I can see Debbie working her way or up those giddy heights with a fair wind. (Although the whole Ray debacle is a bit of an albatross around her neck on the Edwardian morality front.)

I know pregnancy is serious, as is diabetes, and I know Summer is being deceptive and rather immature - but it seems that she can’t even fart without being confronted about it by three grown men in her own home. Billy on his own would be bad enough (he’s way too controlling), but I’m not sure why the other two are always there either. Even if she’s close to them, are they actually “step-fathers” in reality, as opposed to just exes of her dad? In which case I’d question why they need to be involved in family decisions.
The whole scenario is starting to look quite creepy.

But wait, tallboy joined Mumsnet so they'll get the right advice now!

Yes and Billy never seems to do any work

Does he bother to write any sermons or visit his parishes

I don’t think he even goes to church!