Heading into early summer 2025. CORONATION STREET THREAD. **No spoilers please.**

[SabreIsMyFave]

Poor Craig met his maker after Mick hurt him bad
He was a bit boring, but I can't help but feel sad
Mick's wife Lou left him, can't blame her quite frankly
He's abusive and repugnant inside and out, and quite manky

Mick wants to see Kit as he knows he slept with Lou
He's got Bernie now, but what is he going to to do?
Mick's nasty little son is out of the STC
Will he be as bad as Mick, I guess we'll have to wait and see

Debbie's quite ill, she's dumped Ronnie and he's very sad
Kevin's still battling cancer, and he's getting quite bad
Glenda's the new landady of the pub now, and Jenny and Daisy are gone
And Julie has died very suddenly, I hoped she'd go on and on.

(I'm sure there's some more things going on right now, but I've only just woken up after a rough night's sleep.) 😆

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@Kellywiththelegs · Yesterday 23:59

I’m at the point with Corrie where I’m now thinking of binning it off, the only thing that keeps me watching is loyalty as I have watched it since being a child and I’m in my fifties now so even though it sounds ridiculous it makes me quite sad the thought of Corrie not being part of my life.

I always watched it with my late mum so it’s always had a strong pull but I’m struggling with it’s rapid demise, particularly as I watch Classic and the difference in quality is startling, the show is now a hybrid of The Bill and Home and Away, it’s just crime, blackmail, and teenage tear aways, my loyalty and affection for the show is slipping away, I’m off on holiday soon so maybe that will be a good time to kick it to the kerb. Sad times 😔.

Like @Lorrymum I 100% agree with you, and I could have written this too. I feel so blue at how Corrie has descended into like a crime drama, and is more like The Bill/Eastenders, with all its bad lads and borstal boys, and all the crime, and thugs, and killings. Who the hell decided this was a good idea?

It's lost its old humour and lightheartedness, and doesn't really have any loveable, memorable characters in it now - like Stan and Hilda Ogden, Albert Tatlock, Blanche Hunt, Percy Sudgen, Jack and Vera Duckworth, Phyllis Pearce, Norris Cole, Mavis and Derek Wilton, Bet Lynch, Elsie Tanner, Annie Walker, etc etc... The closest we have to a loveable and memorable character is Roy. Even Mary who came in in 2008, and was quite funny and quirky, is becoming annoying now. (IMO.)

Watching the Classic one reminds me how bad it is now. It has little phases of being good, like with the acid attack, and the whole murder of Tinks was quite good, but even so, all of THAT was doom and gloom. Nobody is allowed to be happy and I'm expecting them to have Tim having an affair next, because Sally and Tim have been happy for too long. 🙄 Even when they try a fraction of humour, like Mary singing in the karaoke, and Glenda bursting into song behind the bar, it just makes me cringe a bit. It seems too 'try-hard.' They're not hitting the mark. It's just badly written.

And yeah where IS Abi's young son? What's his name? Who's the father? I literally can't remember, and I'm not sure I care.

But as the pp said, I have watched Corrie since the mid 1970s when I was a child, and I used to watch it with my mum and dad who are no longer here, and it has so much nostalgia and reminds me of a better, simpler time. It would be like ditching an old friend of almost 50 years because they're annoying me a bit, and I don't like them as much as I used to. 😢

DH bailed on Corrie around 3 years ago, as he thought it had been a bit shit for a few years at that point. He just watches Classic Corrie now.

Trouble is, as has been said on the Classic Corrie thread, it's now on 2006 (nearly 2007,) and people are becoming aware that this is the point where the decline started. I wish they would re-start it again and start at around 1970. (And call it Vintage Corrie as someone suggested.) Just stop the Classic one now. Say, at Christmas 2006. (Which will be around another month by my reckoning, as they're on October now, and we get roughly 2 months worth in 1 month.) I mean, it's not really 'classic' now. They're nearly on 2007. It's only 18-19 years ago now. You wouldn't call a 2007 car a classic would you?!

I always thought the decline started when they brought back Tracy, completely distasteful and out of sync with traditional Corrie to have a murderer as a regular character and to make jokes about it.

They then became absolutely obsessed with murder and other violent crime. I always thought the Snape plot was excusable due the comic element of accidental killer. It was like they were making fun of soap serial killers but the deluge since then has just been ridiculous.

Now we have the absurdity of Tracy pointing the finger at Eileen for killing her sister. Plus Abi warned Carl about Tracy but without even thinking to mention the murder. The strength of Corrie used to be its history, a history of how communities were built and the human relationships that went into it. Now it is forgotten if it does not fit in with the next daft plot and neighbours think nothing of screwing each other over.

Imran is the father of Abi's baby.

We have started watching Corrie on youtube. We have gone back to 1980 and it it glorious. There are loads of youtube channels with all the episodes, month by month for each year. We watch Classic Corrie too so I have more or less given up with modern Corrie, it is on but I dont watch it. My family member does but even they are totally fed up with the crime. It really is awful now.

I liked Glenda, but her endless flirting with every new male in the pub is becoming annoying.

Although despite all the sassy talk, she has only ever had one brief fling in the three years she has been there

I stopped watching Corrie a month ago. I had been watching patchily since Joel arrived but I’ve completely given up now. It really pains me as I started watching in the late 60s, I loved Corrie. I came back to the thread to see if it was worth dipping in again - it sounds like the answer is no!

@SabreIsMyFave I still enjoy Classic. There are some annoyances but they clearly still have a big filming budget (unlike now), there is plenty of humour and likeable characters. I remember hating Charlie first time round but while he's loathsome I can now see what a good character he is. A complex and believable villain, unlike the panto characters we get now.

Another development I do not like is that the regular cast have almost been sidelines into the role of victims for an absurd number of villains who show up and 'terrorise the street'. These can be evil business men, gangsters or just plain ordinary thugs. Mick has only been in the show a few months but has already beaten up three regular characters (killing one) and his own wife plus caused problems for many others.

@zanahoria

Another development I do not like is that the regular cast have almost been sidelines into the role of victims for an absurd number of villains who show up and 'terrorise the street'. These can be evil business men, gangsters or just plain ordinary thugs. Mick has only been in the show a few months but has already beaten up three regular characters (killing one) and his own wife plus caused problems for many others.

Yeah this is annoying isn't it?! I detest Mick!

I also agree with you that Tracy coming back after she had killed Charlie (after being released early on a technicality) was poor. And yeah, they did make jokes about it. I remember Steve saying not long after she came back/came out of prison (around 2011,) 'what are listening to Tracy 'The Killers?' Like it was funny that she'd killed someone!

@zanahoria Imran is the father of Abi's baby.

Oh yes of course, thank you!

@Shellingbynight I do agree with you that despite a couple of minor annoyances, 2006 Classic Corrie is still good/superior to 2020s Corrie.

@Getupat8amnow ·

We have started watching Corrie on youtube. We have gone back to 1980 and it it glorious.

Oooh, are they all there? Is it in order (IYSWIM.) Or are you just watching odd episodes?

@zanahoria I agree that's one of the worst aspects. Joel, that bloke Sarah was shagging, Harvey, Kit, Mick. Corrie can no longer cobble together a decent villain and the regulars get sidelined.

Why idoes George think he can make Eileen happy?

That is simply impossible

Oh she’s so draining I’d just let her go.

George won't like Thailand. But Todd can cause havoc in a few funerals.

Yeah I think George should just let Eyelash Eileen go! She doesn't want him!

It annoys me that she hasn’t had a love interest she is an attractive woman. That scene where she was flirting with Jason and he blanked her because obviously she is a larger lady was annoying as anyone else and he would have been all over it so bloody predictable

why on earth did it come with a trigger warning tonight? It’s with every bloody episode! The only thing that triggers me is her flamin voice warning us!

Glenda did have Michael as a love interest but I can’t remember why they broke up. They should get together again

I think they broke up over the shenanigans over the Will of the Dad of Glenda and George .
Glenda was contesting a newly found will or something .

Todd and Theo look so uncomfortable together on that sofa .

IRL Todd actor is not Gay .don't know about Theo actor.

But they just look and feel so awkward .

Same for Carla and Swain.

There is no natural chemistry.

I mean it is the same with heterosexuals who have no chemistry on screen as well I know.
But they just don't Gel !

So the daughter is going to live in that house now !! 😁

Sally and Tim have a good connection...even if his real life wife is working across the street 🤣

I think we managed a whole episode without police involvement last night. Finally. Just need to ditch the hospital now. I sincerely hope they do not make Dylan and Brody friends. Or we are supposed to like Brody.

I noticed last night that Brody has the same voice drawl when he speaks that Mason had .

Like lot of cotton oil in the mouth after a dentist visit ?

Dylan is doing a bit of the same .....

Anyone else noticed the different camera work last night ?

Split /blending scenes .

Tracy and Leanne were talking...but in the background was Sean's long face ...then in went to him and he had a conversation with Glenda .

Something similar happened in the Bisto.

It was a bit like old times .
When things blended ed into each other ...i instead of literally her the the words " Cut " ...and 2 other actors start talking in a different set !

Abi looked mistily into the distance at one point. I thought Seb might return. But luckily her therapy worked well and quickly. Kevin and Debbie are having awful issues, Carl should go back to Germany and let Abi and lovely Ronnie look after them.