It
was all about anxiety in Corrie tonight, whether it was Tyrone confessing to
Kevin about the cupboard full of neglected paperwork at the garage, or
kazoo-voiced Karla attending her stepfather’s funeral in an outfit complete
with a silver crucifix hanging upside down, like something out of The Exorcist.
Everyone
was facing up to their fears, it seemed. Poor Gail was terrified in her own home by an intruder who
looked like a careworn version of Les Dennis, one-time host of Family Fortunes.
Actually, the intruder seemed even more anxious than Gail did (‘Take anything
you want! Don’t murder us!’) Perhaps he thought Gail might corner him and force
him into another of her horrible marriages.
Kylie
came to the rescue, pounding down the stairs half-dressed as Uma Thurman (apparently
for a Quentin Tarantino-themed erotic fantasy game she and David were rashly
planning) and she chased Les Dennis down the street. Fizz failed to get the
licence number of Les Dennis’s van, and this is the kind of thing that gives me
anxiety – being called upon to be able to focus on a moving licence plate and
memorize it. Fizz was hopeless at it, too.
Later
on in the Rovers she was giving Tyrone a stiff talking to about letting the
paperwork slide, and really, both she and Kevin were both a bit short with the
dumpy tyke, I thought. After all, wasn’t it Kevin who had an affair with
Tyrone’s wife Molly (who later got crushed under the tram crash) and who took
away the son Tyrone thought was his own? Some of these people have short
memories, it seems, and that’s a bit anxiety-inducing, too.
It
was Tim – Sally’s new beau - who was described as being ‘sensitive to
atmospheres’ as they came to share an alcove in the Rovers with Tyone and Fizz.
Sally was wittering on about making spring rolls for tea and what a faff on her
special oriental platter can be.
I
don’t need to hear anymore about Tina and Peter and their stolen afternoons of
awkward conversations and clammy sex and sprayed-on sweat in Manchester hotels
or about Karla believing she’d be a bad mother and looking at old photo albums
with her mardy sister. We were meant to be feeling the pathos as she dithered
over a termination, but I was distracted by her overly-vivid
description of her mother’s smelly house coat. ‘Underneath my expensive clothes
and gobbiness, I’m just as common as she was.’
I am really enjoying your blog! I'm a viewer from Canada so I read your older blogs. I also thought Carla's outfit was a bit over the top what a huge cross! Take care.
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