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Costa & Coop p68: Repeats on ITV3: Are there too many spoilers? (June 2016)

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DJ
DJ Dave
Andrew posted:
DJ Dave posted:
Whataday posted:
They could do with getting a new character running the hair salon or the corner shop. Both of those seem pretty stale.

I hate the way all the young cast go to Audrey's to get their hair done, that needs a refurbishment like Roy's I mean if I had the choice of Roy's and a Cost up the road see you later Roy, same with Dev I would be going the Co-Op before his place Laughing

I do love Sally and Tim though, I use to think she was rubbish and when they put her with Tim I think they are one of the best couples in the show.


Not really, the salon in my village is just like that, the younger people just don’t have the older Audrey style stylist, they’d use the Maria ones.

Personally I find scenes with Audrey and all the exasperation at whatever she has to deal with with David or Gail, mixed in with comments about unseen clients some of the best and funniest scenes they do, a type of scene people keep saying they want more of.

Also I expect Roy is cheaper than Costa and food wise you can’t get anything more than a warmed up roll at Costa.


Yeah but this meant to be a bus/tram ride away from Manchester City.
SP
Spencer
Andrew posted:
Also I expect Roy is cheaper than Costa and food wise you can’t get anything more than a warmed up roll at Costa.


Well when Curry and Rice has been £2.75 for the past 15 years, I'm surprised anyone goes anywhere else.

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Is there any meat in it?
JA
james-2001
Plenty of stray cats and dogs, and the rats Roy catches out back.
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FanOfTV99
Spencer For Hire posted:
Andrew posted:
Also I expect Roy is cheaper than Costa and food wise you can’t get anything more than a warmed up roll at Costa.


Well when Curry and Rice has been £2.75 for the past 15 years, I'm surprised anyone goes anywhere else.

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My local chippy is cheaper than that. £1.50 for Curry, Rice and a drink.
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ZE
zeebre12
How can Sean be homeless and so poor? Isn't he working? It's not like he's a drug addict/in debt, what's he spending his money on? He only ever has a few coins. It doesn't make sense.
BR
Brekkie
zeebre12 posted:
How can Sean be homeless and so poor? Isn't he working? It's not like he's a drug addict/in debt, what's he spending his money on? He only ever has a few coins. It doesn't make sense.

Maybe all that lunchtime drinking in the Rovers has caught up with him.


I get what Corrie are trying to portray here and I get why they're doing it with Sean but it doesn't come across as very believeable and he isn't a character that is easy to feel empathy with.

Might have been a better thing to do with a returning character so viewers haven't seen the backstory on screen and would be intrigued to find out how that character got themselves into that position. Of future arrivals would perhaps be a bit too obvious for Jim McDonald but better than this rebirth of their dead daughter nonsense. Nick Tilsley could have worked though - can't recall how he left but he was a fairly successful character so to find out how he lost it all and ended up on the streets would have potentially been interesting, and unlike Sean he has a family in the street to interact with and that makes it a bit more interesting too - why didn't he just go home?
JA
james-2001
Brekkie posted:
I get what Corrie are trying to portray here and I get why they're doing it with Sean but it doesn't come across as very believeable and he isn't a character that is easy to feel empathy with.


Even harder to feel empathy when you've seen what Antony Cotton is like in real life.
DW
DavidWhitfield
zeebre12 posted:
How can Sean be homeless and so poor? Isn't he working? It's not like he's a drug addict/in debt, what's he spending his money on? He only ever has a few coins. It doesn't make sense.

He doesn't have a job and hasn't had a steady one since he stopped working at Underworld. He's done a few shifts at the Rovers and a very short stint elsewhere at a job he lasted about a week at but otherwise nothing. He was living at Tyrone's looking after the kids rent free for at least a couple of months. He's exhausted his savings and is currently without work, hence, homeless.
UB
UBox
zeebre12 posted:
How can Sean be homeless and so poor? Isn't he working? It's not like he's a drug addict/in debt, what's he spending his money on? He only ever has a few coins. It doesn't make sense.

I think that post is the exact reason they're having to do this storyline.

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