Friday, 1 January 2016

State of the Street - December 2015

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And so we reach the end of another year. Overall, I enjoyed Coronation Street this year. There were some storylines that didn't impress ...
Monday, 14 December 2015

The Darth Vader Effect

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You've heard of the "butterfly effect" where one small change can have a large and long standing effect? This month, we'...
Wednesday, 9 December 2015

Where's Alex?

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Nessa is the mother of Alex, a 28 year old lad with Down's Syndrome. He's pretty independent and often seemed to cause his mother ...
Saturday, 28 November 2015

State of the Street - November 2015

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As it's the end of the month, as always, I like to look back on the storylines that particularly made an impression on me, either good...
Tuesday, 17 November 2015

Revenge is Sweet

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One of the staple storylines in a soap is the love triangle. Another is revenge. Sometimes one is a result of the other but not always. Th...
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Saturday, 7 November 2015

Cathy and Nessa - The Sister Dynamic

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Cathy was introduced to us first, on Coronation Street. She was brought in as a recent widow, shy, not very confident and having had her w...
Wednesday, 4 November 2015

Let's talk about Sophie and Kate

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Sophie Webster is 21 and now owns a share of the garage. Let's forget for the moment, the complexities of who owns what of the busines...
Saturday, 31 October 2015

State of the Street - October

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The aftermath of Callum's death has been mainly Sarah having panic attack after panic attack, hovering dangerously on the verge of spi...
Thursday, 1 October 2015

State of the Street - September

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The Corrie Live episode and the calamity of Callum seems to have overshadowed most of the month. It's what most people are going to th...
Thursday, 24 September 2015

#CorrieLive - Top Marks

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Coronation Street broadcast live last night and there was a lot of publicity leading up to it. Fears, anticipation, and Old Trafford all fac...