Coronation Street - Current Episode Discussion - IV

[Ruffed_lemur]

Mary is a great character

She definitely is. The show needs her IMO. She makes a change from some of the more boring characters.

[flappinfanny]

i agree corrie needs the likes of mary. shes like marmite. i hate marmite but love mary.

thought the scenes with izzy and gary were very good.

[N.Fan]

Well it looks like Mary is not leaving,hoorah.

[flappinfanny]

had to smile at the scenes with kirk and hayley and whether to wear a hat or not.

a moving performance by cherylee houston. the scenes with izzy and owen were very good.

[flappinfanny]

i managed to watch the big 3 this week and without a doubt eastenders was head and shoulders above the others. all i will say is itv you are lucky you have the most loyal of viewers in corrie, you can churn out so so episodes week in week out and get decent viewing figures and audience share. corrie viewers are the most loyal and the most easily pleased. ( i include myself in this. )

[Dazzle]

i managed to watch the big 3 this week and without a doubt eastenders was head and shoulders above the others. all i will say is itv you are lucky you have the most loyal of viewers in corrie, you can churn out so so episodes week in week out and get decent viewing figures and audience share. corrie viewers are the most loyal and the most easily pleased. ( i include myself in this. )

Speak for yourself! I stopped watching EE recently because it was so dire - storylines and acting- so I wouldn't call myself, as a Corrie fan, easily pleased. EE has the odd very good episode, but I can't sit through hours of dross for the occasional high point. Corrie is far more even in tone and quality, even if it does have the occasional low point.

[Dazzle]

i managed to watch the big 3 this week and without a doubt eastenders was head and shoulders above the others. all i will say is itv you are lucky you have the most loyal of viewers in corrie, you can churn out so so episodes week in week out and get decent viewing figures and audience share. corrie viewers are the most loyal and the most easily pleased. ( i include myself in this. )

Speak for yourself! I stopped watching EE recently because it was so dire - storylines and acting- so I wouldn't call myself, as a Corrie fan, easily pleased. EE has the odd very good episode, but I can't sit through hours of dross for the occasional high point. Corrie is far more even in tone and quality, even if it does have the occasional low point.

[Ruffed_lemur]

The best thing last night for me was Hayley, Roy and Mary. I loved the way Hayley stopped Mary leaving. It was so mature of her accepting Mary as a friend of Roy's.

Don't like the idea of the surrogacy story at all! And why does there always have to be arguments at church services? It was a day for Joseph.

[flappinfanny]

Speak for yourself! I stopped watching EE recently because it was so dire - storylines and acting- so I wouldn't call myself, as a Corrie fan, easily pleased. EE has the odd very good episode, but I can't sit through hours of dross for the occasional high point. Corrie is far more even in tone and quality, even if it does have the occasional low point.

before i respond to you, i stress i am a corrie fan, so i like to think iam not biased. i think you are being far too kind to corrie, it has not been high in quality and tone for quite a while. what has happened to the nations favourite continuing drama. the peter/leanne/carla saga was excellent, but since then the show has gone on a downward spiral.

there are some very good actors in the show and some dire ones. the gulf between the two is very wide and unfortunately it shows. iam not going to be unkind and name and shame, we all know who falls into which catergory.

the comedy in corrie 9/10 is forced over the top and borders on end of the pier/panto. infact eastenders is better at comedy than corrie. before corrie fans get outraged, (well tutt), i am saying this as a corrie fan more than an eastenders fan. i say this for the good of the show.

eastenders has had a good week, will this continue, i doubt it. corrie need to stop looking at what their southern rivals are doing and concentrate on being corrie and not a wanabee eastenders! it needs to go back to basics.

[alan45]

EE resorts to wheeling back old characters every time the show starts to falter. What show apart from Dallas would bring someone back from the dead in a tottally improbable storyline. Kat and Alfie back yet again and Sharon Whatsernamenow bcd in order to pump some life into an ailing show. I stopped watching it on a regular basis a long time ago. I have stopped believing the hype and all the false promises. I dip in occasionally and its still appalling.