

When, for instance, in Coronation Street in 1998, Deirdre (née Hunt, later Langton, Rachid and Barlow) was jailed for fraud while her conman lover, Jon Lindsay, walked free, the prime minister, Tony Blair, supported the Weatherfield One and promised to intervene. Rather, soaps have lost their place in the national discourse.

It’s not just that, for some, soaps have lost the plot. I know what you’re thinking: Nazi storyline? Other than that: Erika is yet again acting grumpy and bored about being there.Mike Baldwin (Johnny Briggs) at the Rovers Return, Coronation Street, in 2000. I have always wondered if the bots were a team effort involving Sanela, Rinna, Erika and possibly others, but that Sanela is the one who financed it all. Garcelle also pointed out that the point of the bots was to get her off the show, because Garcelle is going to choose her children over BH. Garcelle's anger at Kyle and the others was a long overdue outpouring of emotions she must have locked in tight all these months for the sake of her son. There is something incredibly nasty and sinister about Diana. Not because I thought she was lying, but because someone at this reunion was finally saying sh!t openly for the first time in years.Īnd when she pointed out that Diana has been hounding her on social media on a daily basis - I hadn't realised it was to that extent, but I have seen it. I gasped in shock when Garcelle said 'yep' when asked if she thought Diana was behind the bots. BudgetGhislaine tried to gaslight her way out of that, but Garcelle was not going to let her get away with anything. When the malevolent spirit of Sanela/Diana wafted into the room, you could feel Garcelle's emotion and tenseness silently ratchet up to a 9. Garcelle was not messing around, and you could see how shaken to her core she was about this. I was surprised how quickly the show got to the important stuff - the racist abuse levied at Jax. Either Garcelle and Sutton pull their punches, or Rinna fake-apologises to side-step responsibility, or Andy lets the Coven go hog-wild on their intended target (see S10 with Denise). The last few seasons (including this one) have built up to an intense, sinister crescendo, to the point where viewers tune in because Reunion = The Reckoning. That's because past reunions have fizzled. Which begs the question: just how bad is the dirt that the rest of the Coven have on Kyle?īH reunion part 1 was much better than expected.
