Coronation Street

I agree, it was a very disappointing episode overall. The more they push the Morton's down out throats the more I dislike them. There was no need for them to be in the episode and they really disrupted the flow - as did the scenes with Liam and Leanne. I'm surprised they managed to string out such rubbish filler across two episodes.

The verdict should have been left to the end. The last scene should have been seeing Tracy go down and Deirdre left crying in the courtroom.

Sorry if already mentioned.

Corrie (1) 11.3m
Corrie (2) 11.8m - peak of 13.1m

so it's goodbye Tracey, see you in 2022

Has anyone else noticed how similar Amy is now looking to how Tracy did when she was a similar age? I think it might be the big hair bunches.

Give her a few years and she'll be off upstairs in a mood to play her MP3s.

Did that have an alternative ending?


It would have been good if somehow they could have used the two episodes to explore the two outcomes - so shown her guilty in one, not guilty in the other - and then somehow revealed the true outcome at the end.

That's far too clever and modern for Coronation Street.

Saying, and filming two endings takes the edge of it doesnt it? The could have opened last nights episode with her dreaming, and the not guilty video playing - although that doesnt sound like Corrie.

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Structurally, I think the first episode should have been pretty much the same but the end of the first episode should have been the court adjourning for the jury to make their verdict. The second episode should have started outside the court with the nerves, tension building, and the scene of Tracy walking back to the courtroom should have been at the first break. The second half should have been the coutroom gathering and then the jury coming back in, with the verdict coming in the closing minutes.

I had the idea that when the judge says, 'Do you find the defendent Tracy Lynette Barlow guilty or not guilty of murder?' Tracy would suddenly fall into a trance and have a flashback through periods of her life, as a child, a teen, an adult, with familiar voices echoed, all overlapped, talking about the kidney etc, then a quick flashback to Charlie's murder with Deirdre saying, 'Tracyluv?' and a shot of Charlie's eyes... then 'GUILTY' loud and booming. And, back to reality, Tracy not really responding, everything seeming to hit her, while onlookers gasp and cry out protests.

I think that it would have been better for Tracy to suddenly realise the magnitude of what had happened at the last minute - when it's too late. They could have played on the psychological part of it. That would have been far more compelling.

In hindsight it might have been better not to play out the entire story as it was happening - so all we'd know of Tracy's plot was the neighbours hearing the arguments, discovering her locked in the bedroom etc. We wouldn't know it was all set up by Tracy.


That could then have been explained in some sort of flashbacks, possibly in the Tracy/Deirdre two-hander.

Again, the Corrie execs are too afraid to do anything like that. Perhaps they are afraid to upset die-hard fans who believe in strictly no post production at all?

Of course, but we can but dream of dragging them into the 21st century!


Actually though, last night would have been a real opportunity to have a spin-off episode on ITV2 in between the two shows, focusing solely on the jury deliberating their verdict. I don't think that's a leap too far at all!